Press releases
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Uber’s Call for Change in Europe Shirks Responsibility while Highlighting Real Challenges say Fairwork researchers
17 February 2021
The Fairwork project based at the University of Oxford says Uber’s recent white paper on the regulation of gig work in Europe downplays the responsibility of platforms to improve conditions under existing legal frameworks.
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Digital detoxing doesn’t necessarily improve personal well-being, new study finds
9 February 2021
Research by Oxford University, carried out in partnership with Reading University, Durham University and The Education University of Hong Kong has found no evidence to suggest abstaining from social media has a positive effect on an individuals’ wellbeing
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Announcing the OII’s next Director
29 January 2021
The OII Steering Board has agreed that Professor Victoria Nash should be the next Director of OII.
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New Landmark Study on Online Gendered Abuse and Disinformation
25 January 2021
Online gendered and sexualized abuse and disinformation against women in public life is widespread, and social media platforms are doing too little to stop it.
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Generous donors take Shirley Scholars Fund past milestone figure
25 January 2021
Donations from friends, alumni, and supporters of the Oxford Internet Institute have now taken the total money raised for the Shirley Scholars Fund to £105,000.
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Social media manipulation by political actors now an industrial scale problem prevalent in over 80 countries – annual Oxford report
13 January 2021
The manipulation of public opinion through social media remains a growing threat to democracies around the world, according to the 2020 media manipulation survey from the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford.
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Clear link between climate scepticism and support for right-wing populists, study finds
12 January 2021
A study by Oxford University, carried out in partnership with the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany, has found clear evidence of a link between people supporting right-wing political parties and climate change scepticism.
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New software tool to help researchers with complex social network data collection projects could be used to fight Covid-19
16 December 2020
Researchers at Northwestern University and the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, are proud to announce the stable release of the Network Canvas suite of tools for collecting social network data.
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Spread of disinformation the biggest concern for internet and social media users globally finds new Oxford study
15 December 2020
Spread of disinformation the biggest concern for internet and social media users globally finds new Oxford study
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AI modelling tool developed by Oxford academics incorporated into Amazon anti-bias software
14 December 2020
A new method to better detect discrimination in AI and machine learning systems created by academics at Oxford Internet Institute, has been implemented by Amazon in their bias toolkit, ‘Amazon SageMaker Clarify’, for use by Amazon Web Services customers.
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Oxford academics achieve Associate Professor status
3 December 2020
Four members of faculty at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) have been awarded the title of Associate Professor by the University of Oxford, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to research in the field of social sciences.
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Professor Helen Margetts OBE awarded prestigious prize by University of Dusseldorf
3 December 2020
The Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf has honoured Professor Helen Margetts OBE, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford by naming her as the winner of the Meyer Struckmann prize 2020.
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Tech companies continue to provide online infrastructure for contentious Covid-19 websites even after flagging them as fake news, finds new Oxford study
2 December 2020
In a new study by the Oxford Internet Institute, analysis shows large technology companies of offering multiple levels of services are providing the fundamental back-end infrastructure that supports controversial Covid-19 related websites.
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Groundbreaking new study says time spent playing video games can be good for your wellbeing
16 November 2020
New research from Oxford University has delivered a surprising finding; time spent playing games is positively associated with wellbeing.
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Fairwork Foundation announces Code of Good Practice to protect gig workers in South Africa
6 November 2020
The Fairwork Foundation, in collaboration with researchers and legal academics from the Universities of the Western Cape, Oxford, Cape Town, and Manchester, is launching a new Code of Good Practice for platform workers in South Africa.
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NASA-style caution needed before allowing research to influence policy
12 October 2020
Behavioural science should undergo rigorous testing and review before it informs public policy such as government responses to COVID-19, according to a paper in Nature Human Behaviour: Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy.
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Global public opinion split on benefits of AI, finds new Oxford study
7 October 2020
In a new study by researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, analysis shows that public perceptions on the use of AI in public life is divided, with populations in the West, generally more worried about AI than those in the East.
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“Anything that causes chaos is RT’s line”- new study lifts the lid on RT’s role in wreaking political havoc.
28 September 2020
New analysis from researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, shows how internal processes at RT contribute to the anti-West news agenda and its critical representation of Western government across all RT languages.
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New report calls for gig economy platforms to provide Covid-19 testing for workers
24 September 2020
Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford, urge gig economy platforms to introduce more robust health and safety measures for gig workers.
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Covid-related misinformation videos spread primarily through Facebook, as its fact-checkers fail to spot false information, finds new Oxford study
21 September 2020
∙ YouTube videos with false coronavirus information gathered more shares on social media than the videos of five leading news broadcasters combined