Oxford Internet Institute

18 May 2017 New Scientist

Social media has had a large impact on the transparency of political campaigns, says Jonathan Bright of the Oxford Internet Institute.

17 May 2017 BBC News

Bots appear to be spamming a US regulator's website over a proposed reversal of net neutrality rules; Phil Howard comments.

15 May 2017 Sky News

Helen Margetts discusses targeting of political advertisements on social media.

11 May 2017 Motherboard

OIII research on language, geography, and power in Google is featured (in Italian).

4 May 2017 The Financial Times

The rise of the algorithm need not be bad news for humans -- but we will need to take care of the digital environment, says Luciano Floridi. The best protection against any algorithmic errors is to put human intelligence back into the equation.

1 May 2017 Scientific American

It pays to get the time spent on a device just right; Scientific American covers a study on teen screen use by Andrew K. Przybylski and Netta Weinstein, published in Psychological Science.

1 May 2017 American Academy for the Advancement of Science

Taha Yasseri is an editor of the Frontiers in Physics special issue "At the Crossroads: Lessons and Challenges in Computational Social Science", which is one of ten in the running for the US$100,000 Frontiers Spotlight Award.

14 April 2017 Le Figaro

OII research is featured in this piece on the online gig economy (in French).

14 April 2017 Red Pepper

For the first time in history, we have a mass migration of labour without an actual migration of workers. Mark Graham and Alex Wood explore the consequences

13 April 2017 The Atlantic

Mark Graham talks about the costs and benefits of digital freelance work.

6 April 2017 The Economist

In Africa, says Nicolas Friederici of Oxford University, incubators have disappointed because they are a supply-side solution: there are still too few promising startups in need of their services.

6 April 2017 Sputnik News

Helena Barnard, an author of the OII report ‘The Risks and Rewards of Online Gig Work at the Global Margins' discusses whether the gig economy will boost or destroy the economies of developing countries.

6 April 2017 The Huffington Post

Philip Howard writes: "My team and I collected data on junk news. Our conclusion: voters didn’t get the information they needed during the U.S. election."

5 April 2017 Phys.Org

Oxford University researchers have tracked how recent aircraft incidents or accidents trigger past events and how some are consistently more memorable than others.

5 April 2017 Times Higher Education

Social media platforms’ “stranglehold on data” prevents scholars tackling pressing questions such as the rise of political polarisation and extremism, says Helen Margetts.

5 April 2017 The Verge

How long will we remember the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared back in 2014? About 45 years, say scientists who used Wikipedia page views to develop a new way of studying our collective memory.

4 April 2017 Africa News

Mark Graham discusses the opportunities and challenges of the new digital world for African workers [Radio, 4 min].

27 March 2017 Intelligent CIO

Mark Graham warns of the danger of ‘parasitic capitalism’ where digital companies give little back to the places where they are embedded and platform workers are left to fend for themselves.

27 March 2017 Intelligent CIO

Addressing the 4th UNI Africa Conference in Dakar, Senegal, Mark Graham warned of the danger of ‘parasitic capitalism’ where digital companies give little back to the places where they are embedded and platform workers are left to fend for themselves.

27 March 2017 Financial Times

Nearly a quarter of web content shared on Twitter by users in the battleground state of Michigan during the final days of last year's US election campaign were so-called fake news, according to a University of Oxford study.