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Joy Buolamwini is a Ghanaian-American computer scientist and digital activist based at the MIT Media Lab. Motivated by her own experiences of algorithmic discrimination, ...
Read More Black Heroes of the Internet – Joy Buolamwini

Dr. McIlwain has a global reputation for advancing scholarship in three domains:  political communication, race and the media, technology, and society.  He is a renowned scholar ...
Read More Black Heroes of the Internet – Professor Charlton McIlwain

As two scholars who’ve spent a lot of time studying and within the MENA region, we’re proud to know Emna Mizouni. She’s long been ...
Read More Black Heroes of the Internet – Emna Mizouni

One of my personal heroes and an undeniable ‘force for good’ in making the web and digital media a better place is Deen Freelon. ...
Read More Black Heroes of the Internet – Deen Freelon

Juliana Rotich is an extraordinarily impressive social entrepreneur who has embraced the potential of digital technologies to connect individuals or communities in search of ...
Read More Black Heroes of the Internet – Juliana Rotich

By Nikita Aggarwal, Research Associate, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute, Professor Luciano Floridi, Director, Oxford Internet Institute and Dr Matthias Qian, Departmental Lecturer, ...
Read More Uphold Digital Sovereignty, Avert Digital Autarky  

By Hunter Doughty, Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Zoology and Dr Joss Wright, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Targeted ...
Read More Harnessing online tactics to save a species

In their new blog, Professor Mark Graham, and Dr Martin Dittus, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and Cailean Osborne, a former MSc student ...
Read More Uneven and contested information geographies: How Wikipedia risks reproducing and reinforcing knowledge inequities through its digital representation of cities

Tackling the ethical challenges of the gig economy By Nikita Aggarwal, Research Associate, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and doctoral ...
Read More Tackling the ethical challenges of the gig economy

In their new blog, Niklas Stoehr, IBM, AI Core, GER; Fabian Braesemann, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford; Michael Frommelt, IBM, AI Core, GER; ...
Read More How the Covid-19 crisis facilitates innovation – and how to measure it with online data

By Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Gina Neff, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford News reports about artificial intelligence overwhelmingly showcase how AI ...
Read More AI @ Work: overcoming structural challenges to ensure successful implementation of AI in the workplace

How the rise of Religious Misinformation is contributing to the Covid-19 infodemic By Masha Alimardani, Doctoral Candidate, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford  and ...
Read More How the rise of Religious Misinformation is contributing to the Covid-19 infodemic

Fairwork is an action-research project based at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. We research working conditions in the gig economy, in order ...
Read More Work for the Fairwork Foundation

May 2020 – It was big news, not only for the tech industry, when Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the company would go ...
Read More Why the Digital Society needs the Open Society

Disinformation campaigns such as those perpetrated by far-right groups in the United States seek to erode democratic social institutions. While many studies have emphasized ...
Read More Disinformation by Design: How Media Manipulation Campaigns Are Constructed

The expression “digital divide” refers to the uneven availability, accessibility, use and possession of digital technologies, services, products, or skills within a population. It ...
Read More COVID-19 and the Digital Divides

We are delighted to have contributed with a new chapter to Meedan’s 2020 Misinfodemic Report: COVID-19 in Emerging Economies. The chapter focuses on misinformation ...
Read More Understanding Online Misinformation in Iran, the Epicentre of Coronavirus in the Middle East

In fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, South Korea emerged as a role model. The country managed to greatly slow down the epidemic at an early ...
Read More Beyond Contact-Tracing Apps – How Trust Shapes E-Governance

Hi everyone! I’m Neil Basu. I graduated from the OII with an MSc. in Social Science of the Internet in 2012. I currently work ...
Read More Alumni Challenges: Neil Basu

The Oxford Internet Institute is committed to the work of eliminating discrimination, in all forms, and to creating equal opportunities to participate in the ...
Read More Director’s statement on anti-racism