Programme on Democracy and Technology
DemTech investigates the use of algorithms, automation, and computational propaganda in public life.
Programme on the Governance of Emerging Technologies
This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.
Trustworthiness Auditing for AI
This project will evaluate the effectiveness of accountability tools addressing explainability, bias, and fairness in AI. A ‘trustworthiness auditing meta-toolkit’ will be developed and validated via case studies in healthcare and open science.
Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science and Media
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.
A Fairwork Foundation: Towards fair work in the platform economy
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.
DomesticAI: AI’s Potential to transform unpaid domestic work in the UK and Japan
This project explores the introduction of AI technologies to unpaid domestic work and the potential benefits and vulnerabilities related to this.
Programme on Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age
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.
The Futures for Online Consumption
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.
AI in the News: Reshaping our Information Ecosystem
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 Much is Too Much? Leveraging Existing and Emerging Large-Scale Social Data to Build Robust Evidence-Based Policy for Children in the Digital Age
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.
Current Affairs 2.0: Agenda setting in the European Union
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.
Connected Fitness: Can Online Fitness Communities Facilitate Social Connectedness?
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.