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A European Ethical Code for Data Donation
Participants: Dr Jenny Krutzinna, Professor Luciano Floridi
This project will investigate the possibility of a European Code for Data Donation, its feasibility, its advantages, and the possible difficulties that may be encountered in its formulation and adoption.
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A Fairwork Foundation: Towards fair work in the platform economy
Participants: Professor Mark Graham, Dr Jamie Woodcock
The Fairwork Foundation will certify online labour platforms, using leverage from workers, consumers, and platforms to improve the welfare and job quality of digital workers.
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Cabinet: Digital Transformation of Teaching through Objects
Participants: Dr Kathryn Eccles, Dr Silke Ackermann, Jamie Cameron, Professor Howard Hotson, Ted Koterwas, Dr Giovanna Vitelli
Cabinet is an award-winning online platform designed to encourage the use of museum collections in education.
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Child Protection
Participants: Dr Victoria Nash, Dr Monica Bulger, Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova
Work and activities by OII faculty and associates on issues surrounding online child safety and protection.
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Child safety on the Internet: looking beyond ICT actors
Participants: Dr Vicki Nash, Dr Huw Davies
This project will map the range of non-ICT companies engaging digitally with children and identify areas where their actions might affect a child’s exposure to online risks such as data theft, adverse online experiences or sexual exploitation.
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Computational Propaganda
Participants: Professor Philip Howard, Sam Woolley, Gillian Bolsover
This project will focus on how bots, algorithms and other forms of automation are used by political actors in countries around the world.
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Current Affairs 2.0: Agenda setting in the European Union
Participants: Dr Scott Hale, Fabian Flöck, Przemyslaw Grabowicz, David Jurgens
This project seeks to measure and explain what societal issues are given the highest priorities by media organizations, policy makers, and the general public in different nations and languages of the European Union.
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Data Science in Local Government
Participants: Dr Jonathan Bright, Dr Bharath Ganesh
Data science in local government uses novel techniques to make government more efficient in targeting resources. This project aims to explain the spread of data science methods in the local government context and to understand their impact.
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Economic Geographies of the Darknet
Participants: Professor Mark Graham, Dr Joss Wright, Martin Dittus
This project investigates the economic geographies of illegal economic activities in anonymous internet marketplaces.
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Elections and the Internet
Participants: Professor Helen Margetts, Dr Scott A. Hale, Dr Taha Yasseri, Dr Jonathan Bright
This site collects elections research at the OII. We are interested in exploring the extent to which data from the social web can be used to predict interesting social and political phenomena, especially elections.
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Ethical auditing for automated decision-making
Participants: Brent Mittelstadt
This project defines requirements for ethical auditing of automated decision-making systems.
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GeoNet: Internet Geographies: Changing Connectivities and the Potentials of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Knowledge Economy
Participants: Professor Mark Graham, Dr Stefano De Sabbata, Nicolas Friederici, Dr Christopher Foster, Sanna Ojanperä, Dr Mohammad Amir Anwar, Dr Fabian Braesemann, Michel Wahome
This research project is examining the geographies, drivers, and effects of Sub-Saharan Africa's emerging information economies at a time of changing connectivity and Internet access across the region.
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Government on the Web
Participants: Professor Helen Margetts, Dr Tobias Escher, Dr Scott A. Hale, Simon Bastow, Professor Patrick Dunleavy, Oliver Pearce, Jane Tinkler
Research dedicated to improving knowledge and understanding of e-government and the impact of web-based technologies on government.
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iLabour: The Construction of Labour Markets, Institutions and Movements on the Internet
Participants: Professor Vili Lehdonvirta, Dr Otto Kässi, Greetje (Gretta) Corporaal, Dr Alex J. Wood
The iLabour project is premised on the idea that a fundamental change is taking place in labour markets. It seeks to understand the social and policy implications of this momentous shift.
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Internet Geographies: Data Shadows and Digital Divisions of Labour
Participants: Professor Mark Graham, Joshua Melville, Dr Stefano De Sabbata
This project maps and measures the geographies of information on the Internet.
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OxDEG: The Oxford Digital Ethnography Group
Participants: Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Heather Ford, John McManus, Shireen Walton, Dr William Kelly
OxDEG, the Oxford Digital Ethnography Group, comprises students and faculty members from Oxford University who discuss and share ideas about the evolution of ethnography in a heavily mediated world.
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Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science and Media
Participants: Professor Phil Howard, Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
In this three-year programme researchers will examine the interplay between systematic misinformation campaigns, news coverage, and increasingly important social media platforms for public understanding of science and technological innovation.
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Oxford Martin Programme on the Illegal Wildlife Trade
Participants: Dr Joss Wright
This project will develop an international hub to track and analyse the global illegal wildlife trade, both online and offline, and develop strategies to reduce the threat of the trade through social policy interventions.
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OxIS: Oxford Internet Surveys
Participants: Professor William H. Dutton, Professor Helen Margetts, Dr Bianca Reisdorf, Dr Grant Blank, Ulrike Deetjen
Research on access, use and attitudes to the Internet in Britain based on biennial surveys covering (for example) digital and social inclusion and exclusion, social networking, safety and privacy concerns, Internet regulation, and behaviour.
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OXLab: Oxford eXperimental Laboratory
Participants: Professor Helen Margetts, Dr Tobias Escher, Dr Nir Vulkan, Dr Scott A. Hale, Ingrid Boxall, Professor Peter John, Lucy Bartlett
Oxford eXperimental Laboratory is undertaking laboratory-based experiments (eg information-seeking tasks) on networked computers in two disciplines: Economics (interactive decision making) and Political Science (evaluating government information online).