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Pandemic’s effects on online freelance work: distancing dividend or downscaling loss? The pandemic is causing economic upheaval around the world, as shops and offices ...
Read More Pandemic’s effects on online freelance work

Leading sociologist, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor Gina Neff, Oxford Internet Institute, explains what’s at stake What is AI? Put simply, AI is ...
Read More What we all need to know about AI

The Oxford Internet Institute remains operational and is following the Coronavirus guidelines on the University website. Our buildings are closed to all visitors and ...
Read More How OII is operating during the Coronavirus

The Fairwork South Africa 2020 report highlights the precarious nature of work in the South African gig economy. This research is particularly timely in ...
Read More Second round of Fairwork’s yearly platform ratings in South Africa launched!

A Blog by Julia Slupska, Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity, Oxford Internet Institute and Scarlet Dawson Duckworth, Cyber Technologist, Darktrace.  Slupska ...
Read More Challenging gender stereotypes in cybersecurity: a feminist perspective

In his latest blog, OII postdoctoral researcher Dr Chico Q. Camargo explains why using data from online mapping tools can help policymakers and planners ...
Read More Cutting congestion and minimising traffic disruption using online mapping data

APPLY NOW! The annual Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP) brings together outstanding doctoral students from around the world for a fortnight of study at the ...
Read More Summer Doctoral Programme 2020 Application Open!

As Britain increasingly becomes a digital society, findings from the latest Oxford Internet Survey (OXIS) report, ‘The Rise of Mobile Internet Use in Britain, ...
Read More Is the rise in mobile use in Britain bridging the digital divide?

ESRC Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) collaborative doctoral studentship with the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society. The Oxford Internet Institute is ...
Read More Doctoral research opportunity in Gender and AI Applications Open!

Q&A with Doctoral Candidate Theodora Sutton In her article “Digital Harm and Addiction: an Anthropological View“, published in Anthropology Today, OII DPhil student and ...
Read More Digital Harm and Addiction: an Anthropological View

Latest analysis on the gig economy from researchers Kelle Howson, Srujana Katta, Funda Ustek-Spilda and Professor Mark Graham,   The authors work at the ...
Read More Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘charter of good work’ is nothing but fairwashing

Professor Andy Przybylski and Dr Amy Orben answer questions about their latest paper: Teenage sleep and technology engagements across the week. Firstly, let’s remind ...
Read More Does Technology Use Really Affect Teenage Sleep? Not as much as expected, it seems.

In his latest blog, Professor Mark Graham explores why thinking about the geographies of platforms is of crucial importance if we are to tame ...
Read More New blog: Platforms, power and urbanisation uncovered

MSc student Jessica Morley and Pofessor Luciano Floridi answers questions about their call for a new approach to ethical standards in Artificial Intelligence (AI), published ...
Read More An ethically-minded approach to AI for healthcare by Morley and Floridi

BUSTED! – OII researchers contribute to new book busting 50 of the most common myths about the Internet.  Co -author, DPhil candidate Corinne Cath-Spet, explains ...
Read More BUSTED! – OII researchers help to debunk 50 most common myths about the Internet

Behavioural advertising describes the placement of particular adverts in the places we visit online, based on assumptions of what we want to see. In ...
Read More Algorithmic bias within online behavioural advertising means public could be missing out, says Associate Professor Sandra Wachter

OII DPhil candidate Carl Öhman answers questions about his new paper Introducing the Pervert’s Dilemma: A Contribution to the Critique of Deepfake Pornography which ...
Read More Introducing the Pervert’s Dilemma: A Contribution to the Critique of Deepfake Pornography

Congratulations to all our winners of the 2019 OII MSC thesis prize. It gives us great pleasure to announce the winners of the 2019 ...
Read More Introducing the 2019 MSc Thesis Prize Winners

This article was previously published by the Guardian 11 November 2019 Social media platforms do have a role to play, but real change requires ...
Read More Online politics needs to be cleaned up – but not just by Facebook and Twitter say Oxford academics