Projects
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DomesticAI: AI’s Potential to transform unpaid domestic work in the UK and Japan
Participants: Dr Ekaterina Hertog, Professor Vili Lehdonvirta
This project explores the introduction of AI technologies to unpaid domestic work and the potential benefits and vulnerabilities related to this.
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Programme on Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age
Participants: Professor Andrew Przybylski, Dr Matti Vuorre, Dr Niklas Johannes
This programme addresses the assumptions that the overall mental well-being of young people is undergoing a pronounced period of decline and that digital technologies might be driving this trend.
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The Futures for Online Consumption
Participants: Professor Gina Neff, Blake DiCosola
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.
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How Much is Too Much? Leveraging Existing and Emerging Large-Scale Social Data to Build Robust Evidence-Based Policy for Children in the Digital Age
Participants: Professor Andrew Przybylski, Dr Amy Orben
This project will capitalize on ESRC data resources to build a more nuanced and transparent empirical understanding of the impacts of digital technologies on young people.
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Current Affairs 2.0: Agenda setting in the European Union
Participants: Dr Scott Hale, Fabian Flöck, Przemyslaw Grabowicz, David Jurgens, Chico Camargo
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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A European Ethical Code for Posthumous Medical Data Donation
Participants: Professor Luciano Floridi
This project explores a broadened understanding of data uses in respect of European fundamental rights and investigates an AI governance model for sensitive data use.
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A Right to Reasonable Inferences in Advertising and Financial Services
Participants: Professor Sandra Wachter, Dr Brent Mittelstadt, Dr Silvia Milano, Dr Johann Laux, Dr Chris Russell
This project uses legal and ethical analysis to establish the requirements for applying a ‘right to reasonable inferences’ in Europe to protect against privacy-invasive and discriminatory automated decision-making in advertising and financial services.
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Platform Alternatives: Strategies and Corporate Governance for Europe’s Platform Economy
Participants: Dr Nicolas Friederici, Professor Vili Lehdonvirta, Professor Jeanette Hofmann, Subin Park
This project addresses the question of how platformization can be managed in order to achieve fairer results for European stakeholders.
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AI and the Right to Reasonable Algorithmic Inferences
Participants: Professor Sandra Wachter
The project will identify weaknesses in general and sectoral regulatory mechanisms - e.g. the limited protections afforded to inferences in data protection law - and argue for greater accountability by establishing a ‘right to reasonable inferences'.
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The A-Z of AI
Participants: Professor Gina Neff, James Ward IV, Margaret McGrath, Blake Dicosola, Nayana Prakash
The A-Z of AI is an interactive guide that allows anyone who is curious about AI to develop a baseline understanding of the technology.
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Alternative News Networks – Understanding the spread and influence of disinformation, propaganda, and divisive political news content in the UK online information ecosystem
Participants: Dr Jonathan Bright, Professor Philip Howard, Dr Scott Hale, Hannah Bailey, Mona Elswah, Megha Mishra, Dr Vidya Narayanan, Marcel Schliebs, Christian Schwieter, Katarina Rebello, Ali Arsalan Pasha Siddiqui, Karolina Werens, Alexandra Pavliuc, Anna George
This project seeks to understand the health of the UK online information ecosystem, including tracking the spread of divisive and misleading content.
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Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science and Media
Participants: Professor Phil Howard, Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Dr J. Scott Brennen
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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OxIS: Oxford Internet Surveys
Participants: Grant Blank
Research on access, use and attitudes to the Internet in Britain based on biennial surveys covering (for example) digital and social inclusion and exclusion, mobile use, social media, safety and privacy concerns, Internet regulation, and behaviour.
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What Do ‘the People’ Want? Analysing Online Populist Challenges to Europe
Participants: Dr Sebastian Stier , Prof Ralph Schroeder, Dr Caterina Froio
Digital media allow populist messages to gain circulation, bypassing mainstream channels. This project aims to understand how widespread and impactful such messages are among the general public.
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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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Computational Propaganda
Participants: Professor Philip Howard, Dr Vidya Narayanan, Dr Dimitra (Mimie) Liotsiou, Lisa-Maria Neudert, Samantha Bradshaw
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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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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Political Communication, AI and Data Diversity in the US
Participants: Dr Victoria Nash, Professor Philip N. Howard, Dr Dimitra (Mimie) Liotsiou, Lisa-Maria Neudert, Dr Vidya Narayanan
This project investigates contemporary trends in political communication, political polarization, artificial intelligence, and data diversity in the United States.
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A Global Study of Holocaust mis- and disinformation online
Participants: Dr Jonathan Bright
This project conducts a systematic study of online Holocaust denial and misinformation, aiming to measure the scale of the problem, raise awareness of trends and narratives, and shed light on the platforms and areas hosting such content.
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Strengthening Digital Democracy
Participants: Dr Victoria Nash, Professor Philip N. Howard, Dr Dimitra (Mimie) Liotsiou, Lisa-Maria Neudert, Dr Vidya Narayanan
This programme supports research into the use of computational propaganda in developing democracies, our management of strategic relations with industry, government and civil society stakeholders, and capacity transfer to civil society groups.
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Network Canvas: Development, Hardening, and Dissemination of a Software Suite for the Collection of Complex Network and Contextual Data in HIV and Drug Research
Participants: Dr Bernie Hogan, Dr Michelle Birkett, Dr Gregory Phillips II, Dr Patrick Janulis, Professor Noshir Contractor, Joshua Melville
This project is developing a standalone software suite to capture complex network and contextual data crucial for understanding population dynamics in disease control for HIV and Drug Research.
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OxDEG: The Oxford Digital Ethnography Group
Participants: Dr Peaks Krafft, Professor Rebecca Eynon, 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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Turing Institute
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We are a contributing department to the Alan Turing Institute (ATI), which will place the UK at the forefront of world-wide research in data science.
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WIP: World Internet Project
Participants: Dr Grant Blank
The World Internet Project (WIP) carries out panel surveys in over twenty countries to help understand how individuals adopt and use the Internet and other technologies, as well as the resulting social, economic, political and everyday-life implications.