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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

Andrew Berkley: Data Science Lead, Strategic Intelligence, World Economic Forum The challenges during these times are two-fold. First, how can we best help the global ...
Read More OII Alumni Challenges: Andrew Berkley

Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute have contributed to research led by The Alan Turing Institute’s Hate Speech: Measures & Counter-measures project to create ...
Read More Detecting East Asian Prejudice on Social Media

The internet has blurred the lines between the online and offline workforce. Avory has calculated that roughly $700B in paid workers could move some ...
Read More The Digital Workforce ‘Inside Scoop’ podcast

As in many countries, the U.K. government is racing to adopt technological approaches to the Coronavirus crisis. The government is pursuing in-house software-driven approaches ...
Read More Our new toolkit poses critical questions about government technologies

How are online labour markets reacting to the COVID-19 crisis? Does demand for online work diminish, as companies are facing declining revenues and reduce ...
Read More Pandemic-proof jobs? IT freelancers in high demand, other online workers facing cuts

Dr Balazs Vedres, Senior Research Fellow and Programme Director for the DPhil in Social Data Science, sets out why the discipline is more important ...
Read More Why social data science matters to societal resilience

Fairwork focuses on the major companies that use digital platforms to distribute piecemeal work to workers, in several countries. One of the questions we have been asked is whether platforms who are located outside our focus countries, or ...
Read More Fairwork announces Voluntary Scoring

Survey research used to be the province of skilled specialists who often dedicated their entire careers to it. But with the rise of inexpensive ...
Read More Conducting a cheap and fast online survey: advice from research

Siân Brooke, researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, explores the challenges of a data driven economy and the impact on our ...
Read More Preserving privacy in the age of Big Data

Income earned through gig apps, freelancing platforms, letting platforms, and other digital intermediaries presents big challenges for taxation and social insurance. People should voluntarily ...
Read More EU countries are rolling out systems to tax income from the platform economy

A summary of  The CoRisk-Index: A data-mining approach to identify industry-specific risk assessments related to COVID-19 in real-time In short The COVID-19 pandemic has ...
Read More How worried are businesses about COVID-19? A novel indicator measures industry-specific risk assessments in times of the pandemic

In our last iLabour blog post we looked at the response of online labour markets to the COVID-19 pandemic and realised that the downscaling effect might be dominating ...
Read More The pandemic depresses online labour markets, but some countries are bouncing back – Insights from South Korea, Germany, and the United States

Multiplying threat, and the inspiring resistance Would you believe that the Coronavirus was created by a cruel government to weaken its foreign rivals? Or ...
Read More Misinformation and the Coronavirus Resistance

Researchers from the Digital Ethics Lab at OII, led by Professor Luciano Floridi, present a framework to evaluate whether and to what extent the use ...
Read More Ethical Guidelines for SARS-CoV-2 Digital Tracking and Tracing Systems