Oxford Internet Institute

19 March 2018, Business Insider

Frequent social media use and screen time have been portrayed as universally bad for our health. However, a lot of research on this phenomenon has been characterised by poorly done studies and bad science.

12 March 2018, Wired

The future of work looks grim unless workers band together to rescue it

6 March 2018, Business Insider

Business Insider spoke to Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, professor of internet governance at the University of Oxford and co-author of “Reinventing Capitalism in the age of big data."

5 March 2018, The Guardian

The automation revolution has hit recruitment, with everything from facial expressions to vocal tone now analysed by algorithms and artificial intelligence. But what’s the cost to workforce diversity – and workers themselves?

5 March 2018, The Economist

The Mueller indictment reveals some of the Kremlin’s tactics

3 March 2018, Wired

“We’re dealing with a problem that is even bigger than the platforms. It’s a problem with communication in the 21st century.”

2 March 2018, The Guardian

Jordan Erica Webber is joined by Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo of the Oxford Internet Institute, Prof Laura Norén of NYU and student Kandrea Wade.

2 March 2018, BBC News

Twitter has asked for help in devising a "health check" to measure its contribution to public conversation.

27 February 2018, Financial Times

Tech groups must remove more bots, share data and curb new products, researchers say

23 February 2018, BBC News

Is the battle against online propaganda already being lost as AI puts powerful new weapons in the hands of the fake news merchants?

22 February 2018, Huffington Post

A new study by Oxford University has found that despite what you might think, social media is not the “echo chamber” that you might think it is.

21 February 2018, BBC News

"This is a company that's under a lot of heat to clean up its act in terms of how its platform has been exploited to spread misinformation and junk news," said Samantha Bradshaw from the University of Oxford's Computational Propaganda Project.

19 February 2018, The New Statesman

Opinion piece by OII's Dr Huw Davies on how education may be the only way to combat disinformation, and what provisions currently exist in England and Wales

16 February 2018, Wired

Netflix, Spotify and Tinder have all been revealing personal details of customers in attempt to create viral marketing campaigns. Fun, right? Wrong

12 February 2018, The Guardian

The PM has joined the social media ‘techlash’, but only new laws, not pious aspirations, will make a difference

12 February 2018, BBC News

A study from the University of Oxford, suggested that while children do spend a lot of time online, they have some sophisticated ways of balancing online and offline time.

12 February 2018, NPR

The December issue of the journal Big Data was dedicated to the problem of computational propaganda. In it, researchers Gillian Bolsover and Philip Howard, of the Oxford Internet Institute, define the dangers that need to be addressed.

12 February 2018, The Guardian

Once seen as saviours of democracy, tech giants are now viewed as threats to truth. But how did our faith in all things digital turn into an erosion of trust, particularly in the arena of information and politics?

12 February 2018, The Guardian

A study shows that US supporters of populism read and share the most junk news, muddying the waters of honest debate

9 February 2018, The New Statesman

Despite having held this major review, the government’s response has mainly consisted of highlighting the need for further consultation on proposals to improve work in the on-demand economy.