Oxford Internet Institute

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.

20 December 2018, Motherboard

An Iranian academic says Slack banned him from the communication platform due to US sanctions. But the academic does not live in Iran; he’s in Canada.

18 December 2018, Wired

Alex Wood, who researches the gig economy at the Oxford Internet Institute, says that the report doesn’t clarify much for people already in precarious work.

17 December 2018, BBC News

Russia used every major social media platform to try to influence the 2016 US election, a report claims.

29 November 2018, Nature

Fears over the impact on mental health of smartphones, social media and other trappings of the digital world are driving tech companies to change, but the evidence remains sketchy.

29 November 2018, Vox

We now have a “national attention deficit,” one neuroscientist says.

26 November 2018, New Scientist

Police in the UK want to predict serious violent crime using artificial intelligence.