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Nikita Aggarwal, Research Associate, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute and doctoral candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and Professor Luciano Floridi, Director, ...
Read More Intercultural Digital Ethics at the OII

Rating fairness in the Indian platform economy: 2020 Fairwork scores In the second year of research, The Fairwork India 2020 report evaluates the working ...
Read More Rating fairness in the Indian platform economy: 2020 Fairwork scores

Fairwork researchers Shelly Steward, Pablo Aguera Reneses, Srujana Katta, and Professor Mark Graham explain the implications of Proposition 22 legislation on gig economy workers. ...
Read More California’s Proposition 22 Reinforces the Need for Fair Working Conditions Worldwide

In their blog, Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research, Vili Lehdonvirta and  doctoral candidate Julian Albert outline how online freelancers develop their ...
Read More How workers learn skills in the online platform economy, and how platforms, policies, and learning providers can support them

Predicting the outcome of the 2020 US Senate election using Wikipedia pageview data by Hamza Salem, Oxford Internet Institute MSc Alumnus and Dr Fabian Stephany, ...
Read More Wikipedia: A Challenger’s Best Friend?

California’s Proposition 22 Presents an Alarming Turning Point in Labour Law Researchers from the Fairwork Foundation, Shelly Steward, Pablo Aguera Reneses, Srujana Katta, and ...
Read More California’s Proposition 22 Presents an Alarming Turning Point in Labour Law

Marcus Rashford MBE has harnessed the power of the internet to campaign for political change.  Rashford, a forward for Manchester United and England, has ...
Read More Black Heroes of the Internet – Marcus Rashford MBE

The ongoing Covid-19 crisis has moved more of our interactions online than ever before. Yet in the current political climate the perils of social ...
Read More How social media echo chambers emerge (and why all your friends think Trump will lose)

I am pleased to nominate adrienne maree brown (a.k.a. “amb”) as one of the Oxford Internet Institute’s Black Heroes of the Internet in recognition ...
Read More Black Heroes of the Internet – adrienne maree brown

Philipp Darius, doctoral candidate, Centre for Digital Governance, Hertie School, Berlin and Dr Fabian Stephany,  Postdoctoral Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute,  explain how political actors ...
Read More Hijacking Hashtags in Times of COVID-19: How the Far-Right Polarises Twitter

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