Dr Fabian Stephany

Videos

• Is the future of work online?

  Recorded: 21 May 2021

  Duration: 01:45:00

  Fabian Stephany delivers his talk 'Is the future of work online' at the The British Council Singapore, Knowledge is GREAT lecture:

• Knowledge is GREAT lecture: Is the future of work online?

  Recorded: 5 May 2021

  Duration: 59:23:00

  Watch Dr Fabian Stephany share his insights on the future of work.

• One size does not fit all

  Recorded: 20 April 2021

  Duration: 00:02:33

  Fabian Stephany provides a video abstract of his new paper with Big Data & Society

• When Does it Pay Off to Learn a New Skill? Revealing the Complementary Benefits of Cross-Skilling

  Recorded: 15 February 2021

  Duration: 00:36:17

  Plamadiso Talk by Fabian Stephany, organized by Research Group 3 @ Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society

• The Digital Economy Post COVID-19: Global Outlook and Local Contexts

  Recorded: 13 October 2020

  Duration: 01:31:16

  American University Cairo and Friedrich Ebert Foundation panel discussion: The Digital Economy Post COVID-19: Global Outlook & Local Context

Blog

• Why the future of work needs trust

  19 July 2021

  Authors: Fabian Braesemann, Fabian Stephany

  Why the future of work needs trust By Dr Fabian Braesemann, Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute and Dr Fabian Stephany, Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute ...
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• What skills do we need in the workplace of the future?

  28 April 2021

  Authors: Fabian Stephany

  What skills do we need in the workplace of the future? This depends on you! In my article, ‘One size does not fit all: ...
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• ILO report: The role of digital labour platforms in transforming the world of work

  24 February 2021

  Authors: Fabian Stephany, Vili Lehdonvirta

  Digital labour platforms have become a pervasive feature of contemporary society. They allow us to order food, arrange a ride, or buy remote freelancing ...
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• Wikipedia: A Challenger’s Best Friend?

  3 November 2020

  Authors: Hamza Salem, Fabian Stephany

  Predicting the outcome of the 2020 US Senate election using Wikipedia pageview data by Hamza Salem, Oxford Internet Institute MSc Alumnus and Dr Fabian Stephany, ...
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• Hijacking Hashtags in Times of COVID-19: How the Far-Right Polarises Twitter

  21 October 2020

  Authors: Fabian Stephany, Philipp Darius

  Philipp Darius, doctoral candidate, Centre for Digital Governance, Hertie School, Berlin and Dr Fabian Stephany,  Postdoctoral Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute,  explain how political actors ...
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• Why the Digital Society needs the Open Society

  13 July 2020

  Authors: Fabian Braesemann, Fabian Stephany

  May 2020 – It was big news, not only for the tech industry, when Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the company would go ...
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• Beyond Contact-Tracing Apps – How Trust Shapes E-Governance

  18 June 2020

  Authors: Fabian Stephany

  In fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, South Korea emerged as a role model. The country managed to greatly slow down the epidemic at an early ...
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• The Digital Workforce ‘Inside Scoop’ podcast

  28 May 2020

  Authors: Fabian Stephany

  The internet has blurred the lines between the online and offline workforce. Avory has calculated that roughly $700B in paid workers could move some ...
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• Pandemic-proof jobs? IT freelancers in high demand, other online workers facing cuts

  19 May 2020

  Authors: Fabian Stephany, Vili Lehdonvirta, Michael Dunn, Steven Sawyer

  How are online labour markets reacting to the COVID-19 crisis? Does demand for online work diminish, as companies are facing declining revenues and reduce ...
  Read More Pandemic-proof jobs? IT freelancers in high demand, other online workers facing cuts

• How worried are businesses about COVID-19? A novel indicator measures industry-specific risk assessments in times of the pandemic

  24 April 2020

  Authors: Fabian Stephany, Fabian Braesemann, Niklas Stoehr, Philipp Darius, Ole Teutloff, Leonie Neuhäuser

  A summary of  The CoRisk-Index: A data-mining approach to identify industry-specific risk assessments related to COVID-19 in real-time In short The COVID-19 pandemic has ...
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• The pandemic depresses online labour markets, but some countries are bouncing back – Insights from South Korea, Germany, and the United States

  24 April 2020

  Authors: Fabian Stephany

  In our last iLabour blog post we looked at the response of online labour markets to the COVID-19 pandemic and realised that the downscaling effect might be dominating ...
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• Pandemic’s effects on online freelance work

  2 April 2020

  Authors: Fabian Stephany

  Pandemic’s effects on online freelance work: distancing dividend or downscaling loss? The pandemic is causing economic upheaval around the world, as shops and offices ...
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• Team news: Original trio moves on, new members join

  17 February 2020

  Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

  Featured image of the original iLabour research team in June 2016 (from left): Alex Wood, Vili Lehdonvirta, Otto Kässi, and Gretta Corporaal.   The ...
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Press

• Ghost work is taking over the world—and you may not even know it

  27 June 2021 Prospect Magazine

  
  

  Jeff Bezos has called them "artificial artificial intelligence." Researchers have tried to pin them down. But what do ghost workers actually do?

• How freelance labour platforms will reshape the world of work

  19 May 2021 New Statesman

  
  

  Online labour platforms such as Upwork and Freelancer have grown 60% since 2017. In future, they may influence how organisations manage and monitor their own employees.

• Britain employs more ‘crowdworkers’ than anywhere in Europe

  29 December 2020 The Telegraph

  
  

  Fears raised that online platforms encourage gig workers to undercut each other on price in 'race to the bottom'.

• A threat to freelancers, but also to permanent employees

  12 May 2020 Journalisten

  
  

  Graphics, text and marketing can be obtained at a fraction of Danish prices on global freelance platforms. “Simple tasks will be massively outsourced,” says Oxford researcher. A threat to you and me?

• New Online Index Analyzes Trade Concerns Before COVID-19

  6 May 2020 Smart Lighting

  
  

  Businesses across all sectors are increasingly concerned about the impact of COVID-19, according to the CoRisk Index, a new online tool from the University of Oxford.

• New online tool CoRisk-Index reveals business concerns over coronavirus

  1 May 2020 Government Computing

  
  

  A new online tool called CoRisk-Index from the University of Oxford revealed that businesses across all the sectors are becoming increasingly concerned about the effect of the coronavirus outbreak.

• How the pandemic consumed the labor market

  30 April 2020 The Washington Post

  
  

  As the novel coronavirus pandemic brought business to a halt, the pain rippled outward, blowing up sector after sector. According to a detailed analysis of unemployment claims, no industry was left untouched.

• This is the level of fear of corona

  4 April 2020 WirtschaftsWoche

  
  

  The corona virus unsettles the entire economy, from consumers to corporations. Researchers are now using Internet data to trace the worries almost in real time.

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