Oxford Internet Institute

9 July 2017 Spend Matters

The Oxford Internet Institute recently highlighted a sharp rise in its Online Labour Index, which "measures the utilization of online labor across countries and occupations by tracking the number of projects and tasks in real time."

30 June 2017 University World News

The rapid growth of internet use on the African continent has sparked hopes for the democratisation of knowledge production, but recent research suggests that connectivity is not enough to boost Africa’s position in the knowledge economy.

28 June 2017 BBC Radio 4

Mariarosaria Taddeo is a witness on BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze, discussing whether we need a new moral philosophy for the Internet.

27 June 2017 ITWeb

Connectivity is an important enabler of digital content creation and knowledge production; however, a new study has found it is not an all-encompassing condition.

25 June 2017 The Times

Fears internet non-users may find it hard to access public services.

25 June 2017 BBC News

Surveillance, misuse of data, privacy and hacking are all issues that Dr Huw Davies of the Oxford Internet Institute believes young voters of the future will be concerned about.

21 June 2017 BBC News

If you've been chatting about politics on social media recently, there's a good chance you've been part of a conversation that was manipulated by bots, researchers say.

21 June 2017 Wired

A study from the Oxford Internet Institute warns that social networks have to do more to stymie the tide of fake news, which damages our democracies.

20 June 2017 The Register

The use of algorithms and bots to spread political propaganda is "one of the most powerful tools against democracy", top academics have warned.

19 June 2017 The Conversation

Following the attack on a group of Muslim worshippers in Finsbury Park that left one person dead and 11 injured, Londoners have once again demonstrated their strength and unity in the face of violence, says Bharath Ganesh.

19 June 2017 The Guardian

Nine-country study finds widespread use of social media for promoting lies, misinformation and propaganda by governments and individuals.

18 June 2017 The Conversation

Media reports that compare social media to drug use are ignoring evidence of positive effects, while exaggerating and generalising the evidence of negative effects, says Andy Przybylski.

8 June 2017 SciDevNet

Africa has traditionally been left out of what is called the knowledge economy, but this is a concern, write Sanna Ojanpera and Mark Graham.

6 June 2017 Mail & Guardian

“Only eight countries in Africa ... have a majority of content that is locally produced,” according to a new study published last month in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

2 June 2017 Slate

We need more transparency from social networks, say Tim Hwang and Samuel Woolley.

1 June 2017 BBC News

Researchers at Oxford University have found that the quality of news available to British voters on Twitter is superior to that available to Americans ahead of the election of Donald Trump as president.

31 May 2017 Quartz

A Google search for “Accra,” the capital of Ghana, returns its Wikipedia entry, travel advice from Lonely Planet and TripAdvisor, and a few news websites like the Guardian.

31 May 2017 The Guardian

OII authors of social media report say party pulling in highest proportion of tweets despite not leading in the polls.

22 May 2017 The Guardian

With Facebook becoming a key electoral battleground, researchers are studying how automated accounts are used to alter political debate online.

18 May 2017 BBC News

Phil Howard and Sam Woolley discuss political bots and propaganda on BBC News at Ten.