Oxford Internet Institute

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, Vox

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

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.

26 November 2018, New Scientist

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

21 November 2018, Tes

Much of the negative reputation of tech and screens is way ahead of the research, and schools need to recognise the reality, says Professor Andrew Przybylski.

20 November 2018, Council on Foreign Relations

France is taking an innovative step to curb disinformation on Facebook. It might prove to be a model for regulators elsewhere.

9 November 2018, The Guardian

Jordan Erica Webber chats to the Iranian internet researcher Mahsa Alimardani about what we should be doing to rebuild trust in the internet.

9 November 2018, The New York Times

A recent study by the Oxford Internet Institute, a department at the University of Oxford, found that 25 percent of all election-related content shared on Facebook and Twitter during the midterm election season could be classified as “junk news.”

9 November 2018, The Week

Oxford University study challenges widespread fears that gadget use disrupts youngsters’ rest

6 November 2018, Daily Mail

A study published last week found that misinformation on social media was spreading at a greater rate than during the run-up to the 2016 presidential vote.

6 November 2018, Firstpost

Oxford Internet Institute researchers, in a study published Thursday, said that despite an aggressive crackdown by social media firms, so-called "junk news" is spreading at a greater rate than in 2016.

6 November 2018, The Telegraph

Children’s sleep is barely affected by the amount of time spent staring at screens, claims a new study by scientists at the University of Oxford.

6 November 2018, BBC News

The amount of time children spend on devices has little effect on how long they sleep, a study from Oxford University suggests.

5 November 2018, Oxford Mail

Screen time may not have as big an impact on children’s sleep as once thought, according to new research.

4 November 2018, CBC

That's the gap the Oxford University-based OLI is attempting to bridge, and its creators boast that the index is the first of its kind — a global economic indicator for the online gig economy.

4 November 2018, Newsweek

In a press release on Thursday, the Oxford Internet Institute said the proportion of junk news in circulation on social media sites since the presidential election grew by five percent.

2 November 2018, Washington Post

After analyzing 2.5 million tweets and 6,986 Facebook pages, the Oxford Internet Institute has just found that the amount of biased, hyperbolic and conspiratorial “junk news” in circulation is actually greater than it was in 2016.

1 November 2018, TechCrunch

With the US midterms fast approaching purveyors of online disinformation are very busy indeed spreading their hyper-partisan junk on Facebook