Oxford Internet Institute

5 August 2019, The Washington Post

Hours after a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, brought the weekend death total to 29, following a Saturday massacre in El Paso, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) offered his take on what helped fuel the latest round of unspeakable violence.

5 August 2019, CNN

As mass shootings roil the nation, President Trump and top Republicans are citing video games as one explanation for the bloodshed. But experts say there is little evidence to link violent games to real-world violence

5 August 2019, NBCNews

Researchers have long sought links between real-world violence and bloody video games. "We found a whole lot of nothing,” said one expert.

11 July 2019, QZ.com

Facebook’s plans for Libra are monumental, but the basic premise of digital money remains the same as it was decades ago. Indeed, the company’s push into cryptocurrency—and e-commerce—is hardly unique. It’s even fair to say the social media giant is late.

7 July 2019, The Guardian

The authors of a landmark study, Andrew Przybylski and Amy Orben, argue that social media use has only minor effects on wellbeing. But an entire industry says otherwise.

24 June 2019, Manchester Evening News

The screen time guidance by WHO may surprise some parents.

23 June 2019, The Guardian

Deepfake – the ability of AI to fabricate apparently real footage of people – is a growing problem with implications for us all.

22 June 2019, Financial Times

Philosophers with dim career prospects are in demand to research the ethics of data tech.

15 June 2019, Wired

We've successfully trained machine learning and artificial intelligence to make decisions. Now we need it to understand what the right choices are.

12 June 2019, What Bitcoin did

Latest panel debate from the OFF discussing the effects of the currency crisis on the Iranian internet and the effects of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin on internet access and use.

12 June 2019, The Independent

Iran is to launch a text-messaging service to allow self-appointed guardians of morality in Tehran to turn in their neighbours or strangers for violating murky codes of public conduct, officials have said.

11 June 2019, Newsweek

Iran’s government is urging its citizens to use text messages to report on their neighbours or on strangers if they believe they are guilty of violating the country’s code of conduct.

11 June 2019, Deuschlandfunk

The OII's Mark Graham, talks to Deuschlandfunk about the impact of digitisation on cities.

5 June 2019, The New Statesman

The greatest risk may not be that computers will one day think like humans, but that humans will forget about the workers sustaining our digital economy.

27 May 2019, El Pais

The OII's Mark Graham speaks to El Pais

22 May 2019, Financial Times

Far-right parties shift focus from leaving EU to divisive social issues

21 May 2019, BBC News

Are Twitter bots controlled by Russia on the march across Europe? And is Facebook full of misinformation designed to influence voters?

12 May 2019, Financial Times

Facebook, Google and Twitter should build tools so the public can track political content

7 May 2019, BBC News

The effects of social media use on teenage life satisfaction are limited and probably "tiny", a study of 12,000 UK adolescents suggests.

15 April 2019, Tagesspiegel

Die globale Plattformökonomie zeige die begrenzte Macht nationaler Regulierung auf, erklärt Mark Graham, Professor am Oxford Internet Institute. Ohne Mindeststandards werden Plattformarbeiter weiterhin ausgebeutet.