Gina Neff is the Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge, and is the Professor of Technology & Society at the University of Oxford until the end of 2022. Her books include Venture Labor (MIT Press 2012), Self-Tracking (MIT Press 2016) and Human-Centered Data Science (MIT Press 2022).
Her research focuses on the effects of the rapid expansion of our digital information environment on workers and workplaces and in our everyday lives. Professor Neff holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University and advises international organisations including UNESCO, OECD and the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society. She chairs the International Scientific Committee of the UK’s Trusted Autonomous Systems programme and is a member of the Strategic Advisory Network for the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council.
Her academic research has won both engineering and social sciences awards. She also led the team that won the 2021 Webby for the best educational website on the Internet, for the A to Z of AI, which has reached over a million people in 17 different languages.
Professor Neff is no longer taking on doctoral students.
Innovation, work, organisations, culture, communication, theory, qualitative methods, critical data studies, science and technology studies.
This project will engage key stakeholders in the UK news industry in a public symposium to address urgent and pressing questions about news production in the age of AI.
How might the future of consumption change how we track and monitor ourselves? This project will test different strategies for helping people make healthier choices in online food shopping.
This study will assess how self-tracking data shapes social communities and the support people that receive from them, mapping the roles that online fitness communities play in maintaining psychological and social wellbeing and social connectedness.
In the past five years work my work and the work of my students has been financially supported by UK taxpayers, UK Economic and Social Research Council, UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, Google and Microsoft. As part of my science communication and policy outreach, I have served in an advisory capacity with paid talks, paid training or unpaid service on an advisory board or working group with the following organizations: AI Now, Configuring Light Project at LSE, Center for Critical Internet Inquiry at UCLA (C2I2), University of Copenhagen, the European Commission Joint Research Centre, Data & Society Research Institute, DigiMed, GMG Ventures, IAC, ING Bank, Minderoo Foundation, Northern Illinois University, Understanding Public Uses of Data and Dashboards Project at UC Irvine, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Royal Society, Saïd School of Business Executive Education, Structure Tone, University of Calgary Gairdner Lecture, VIRT-EU H2020 Project, The Women’s Forum for Economy & Society, Zinc VC.
I have provided consultancy services for ESRC, UNESCO, OECD and the IAB.
I serve as the chair of the scientific committee of UKRI’s Trusted Autonomous Systems programme and on the board of the ESRC’s Strategic Advisory Network. I chair the board of advisors for the social media start-up Bright and advise two Oxford student-based entrepreneurship groups, Oxford Entrepreneurs and the Christ Church Entrepreneurs Circle.
With Professor Gina Neff, Kavita Philip, Mar Hicks, Benjamin Peters, and Thomas S. Mullaney
The OII is pleased to welcome the four editors of the book 'Your Computer is on Fire' for this online book launch, hosted by Professor Gina Neff.
With Corinne Cath-Speth and Professor Gina Neff
The OII is delighted to present Dr. Corinne Cath, a recent graduate of the Oxford Internet Institute and the Alan Turing Institute for AI and Data Science. They're a cultural anthropologist who study the politics of Internet infrastructure.
With Dr Julia Slupska, Scarlet Dawson Duckworth, Folami Prehaye, and Professor Gina Neff
For the Reconfigure: Feminist Action Research in Cybersecurity Report launch, authors Julia Slupska, Scarlet Dawson Duckworth, and Professor Gina Neff, are joined by Folami Prehaye, Activist & Founder of Victims of Image Crime.
With Dr Matthew Bui and Professor Gina Neff
As part of the Next Gen series Professor Gina Neff of the OII hosts Dr Matthew Bui, during this webinar he will explore the relationship between marginalized communities of color and data.
By Julia Slupska, Scarlet Dawson Duckworth, Gina Neff, Nayana Prakash, Selina Cho, Linda Ma, Laura Shepherd, Hayyu Imanda, Hubert Au, Antonella Perini, and Romy Minko
The discourse around cybersecurity can often seem academic and exclusive. The Reconfigure project aims to build a feminist alternative and this report sets out findings from a pilot study applying “action research” methods to cybersecurity questions.
1 September 2021
When it comes to self-tracking, teens use tools that were neither designed with them in mind nor fit their needs. As teens and their bodies develop, self-tracking presents both challenges and opportunities.
13 August 2020
25 March 2020
25 March 2020
Research from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), part of the University of Oxford, reveals that less than half of Brits have a good understanding of AI and how it’s already being used in daily life.
Computer Weekly, 19 January 2022
Censorship of scientific misinformation online could exacerbate feelings of distrust, so government should look at information literacy and funding fact checkers instead, says report.
Politico, 19 January 2022
Demonetization, fact-checking labels and regulating recommendation algorithms could help curb misinformation, report says.
BBC News, 19 January 2022
How do you solve a problem like bad information? The Royal Society is the world's oldest continuously operating scientific institution, and it is attempting to grapple with the challenges posed by our newest ways of communicating information.
DPhil Student
Laura specializes in emerging technologies’ impact on artistic & creative practices. Currently, she is the Head of AI Research at Adobe and a doctoral researcher at the OII.
Former MSc Student
Blake is a graduate of the OII and researches digital interventions that encourage consumers to make healthier decisions in online shopping contexts.
Former MSc Student
Elizabeth is interested in how the internet effects the governance of violence and influences contemporary national security policy. She holds a BA from the University of Cambridge, and has worked previously as a Senior Policy Adviser.
Former MSc Student
Kate Sim was a DPhil Student at the OII researching the datafication and automation of sexual harassment reporting systems in US higher education. She now works at Google.
DPhil student, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford
Former DPhil Student
Amelia Hassoun's research analyses the design, development, and usage of sensor technologies embedded in Singapore’s urban landscape as part of its Smart Nation project, as well as the social life of the data they produce.
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Research Associate
Felix is a Research Fellow in AI and News at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and a former DPhil student at the OII. A former Leverhulme and Dieter Schwarz Scholar, he researches AI in journalism and the news.
Former DPhil Student
Clementine is a DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on AI and gender.
Former DPhil Student
Jaimie's research interests centred on the implications of and patterns in young people’s engagement with the Internet, with a particular focus on self-tracking practices and the interactions between online and offline social behaviours.
DPhil Student
Maggie’s doctoral research focuses on AI and creativity. She is incorporating visual art as a part of a practice-based methodological approach to understand how creatives find inspiration through algorithmic image search.
Former DPhil Student
Julia Slupska was a doctoral student at the Centre for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity and the Oxford Internet Institute. Julia previously graduated from the LSE and the OII.
Former DPhil Student
Tomas’ doctoral project investigates the social histories and future imaginaries of the Internet on Haida Gwaii.
Former DPhil Student
Margie was a DPhil student at the OII.
Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences, University of Oxford
Former MSc Student
Corinne Cath-Speth was a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focused on the politics and ethics of Internet governance and the management of the Internet’s infrastructure.
