With ongoing anxiety and high-level investigations of foreign interference in recent elections, it seems that democratic transparency and accountability face increasing pressure in the digital age. This project will expand the Oxford Internet Institute’s investigative capacity and programme of policy engagement, allowing us to support critical public conversations about the role of “computational propaganda” in the increasingly technology- and data-driven political campaigns that characterise contemporary democracies.
We have a three-part programme, including:
Senior Policy Fellow, Associate Professor
Associate Professor and Senior Policy Fellow. Her research focuses on the opportunities and risks experienced by children using digital technologies; she also leads OII engagement on Internet regulation and digital policy issues.
Professor of Internet Studies
Philip N. Howard is a professor of sociology, information, and international affairs. He is Director of the Programme on Democracy and Technology, and is a Professorial Fellow of Balliol College.
Former Researcher
Mimie was a postdoctoral researcher on the Computational Propaganda project. Her research interests include social influence, causal inference, computational social science, and data science, particularly using real-world data of online interactions.
Former Research Assistant
Lisa-Maria Neudert is a DPhil Student researching platform governance and regulation in response to mis/disinformation.
Former Postdoctoral Researcher
Vidya studies machine learning for biodiversity, as part of the "Benchmark for Nature" project for the Oxford Martin School's Programme on Biodiversity and Society.
