Oxford Internet Institute

13 February 2019, The Times

Power up your rocket launcher, take aim at your opponent’s head — and prepare for a guilt-free session of Fortnite. Because there is no link, scientists have said, between violence in video games and violence in real life.

13 February 2019, Financial Times

The bid to prevent algorithms producing racist, sexist or class-conscious decisions

13 February 2019, Sky News

Playing violent video games has no link to teenage aggression, new research has found.

13 February 2019, itv

Playing violent video games does not cause teenagers to be aggressive, according to a new study.

13 February 2019, The Independent

Teenagers who play violent video games are no more prone to real world aggressive behaviour than their peers, according to UK researchers who say their negative effects have been overstated.

11 February 2019, The New Statesman

The issue is not just about privatised regulation of online speech. It is the logic of culturally sanctioned inequality where a blue checkmark guides who gets direct access to the companies that define who can speak online, when, and how.

11 February 2019, The New Statesman

Digital borders already exist. But frictionless borders depend on trust, not surveillance.

7 February 2019, The Guardian

Mariarosaria Taddeo, research fellow at Oxford University’s internet institute and deputy director of its digital ethics lab, believes public services need to exercise care when introducing chatbots.

31 January 2019, The Guardian

Prof Andrew Przybylski, the director of research at the Oxford Internet Institute, said the issue of good quality research was vital, adding that many people’s perception of the effect of social media is largely rooted in hype.

30 January 2019, Forbes

Wachter, who is a lawyer and research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, argues that with modern interconnected digital technologies, data is not so much knowingly created by the user as it is observed or captured by devices and services.

30 January 2019, Oxford Mail

"If there are wonderful technologies that make borders near frictionless, why aren’t they being used elsewhere – or where are they being used?” said Professor Vili Lehdonvirta, associate professor at the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute.

25 January 2019, Wired

Earlier this month, researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute published a study in the journal Nature Human Behavior that plainly illustrates how that happened.

16 January 2019, MIT Technology Review

A new study claims screen time isn’t strongly linked to depression, suicide, or anything else.

15 January 2019, The Independent

Just 0.4% of wellbeing attributed to use of technology

15 January 2019, Scientific American

A rigorous new paper uses a new scientific approach that shows the panic over teen screen time is likely overstated

15 January 2019, The Times

Social media and watching TV has such a “tiny” effect on teenagers’ mental health that eating potatoes or wearing glasses appear to be just as risky, an overview of studies has concluded.

15 January 2019, Wired

Getting enough sleep and eating breakfast were positively associated with adolescent well-being at a magnitude 44 and 30 times that of technology use, respectively.

14 January 2019, Forbes

Researchers at the University of Oxford have used data from over 300,000 teenagers and parents in the US and UK to show that time spent staring at computer screens, video games, and smartphones has almost no significant effect on a child's well-being.

10 January 2019, Wired

Digital trading means that more and more people can buy and sell artworks

5 January 2019, BBC News

"We've seen a shift in people, away from thinking of communication as place-based, towards something more personal," Dr Bernie Hogan, from the Oxford Internet Institute, told the BBC.