A multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet.

A multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet.

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Latest Books

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Social Theory After the Internet: Media, Technology and Globalization

Ralph Schroeder

Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump to come to power.
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Web as History

Niels Brugger, Ralph Schroeder (Eds)

An edited collection that argues that now is the time to question what we have learnt from the Web so far. The 12 chapters explore this topic from a number of interdisciplinary angles.
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At the Crossroads: Lessons and Challenges in Computational Social Science

Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Yamir Moreno, Taha Yasseri (eds)

An edited collection of articles addressing lessons and challenges in Computational Social Science, and scientific opportunities for tackling the fundamental features of social complexity.
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State Power 2.0

Muzammil M. Hussain, Philip N. Howard (Eds)

This book examines what causes state-powers to block internet access, disable digital networks or even shut off internet access. How is it done, what is the impact and how do dissidents attempt to fight back?

Latest Articles, Conference Proceedings and Other Publications

DITTUS, M., wright, J. and graham, M. (2018) Platform Criminalism: The Last-Mile Geography of the Darknet Market Supply Chain. ACM The Web Conference (WWW), Lyon, France, 23 – 27 April 2018. ACM.
Mittelstadt, B.D.M., Benzler, J., Engelmann, L., Prainsack, B. and Vayena, E. (2018) "Is There a Duty to Participate in Digital Epidemiology?", Life Sciences, Society and Policy.
Cath, C., Wachter, S., Mittelstadt, B., Taddeo, M. and Floridi, L. (2018) "Artificial Intelligence and the 'Good Society': the US, EU, and UK approach.", Science and engineering ethics. 24 (2) 505-528.
Schroeder, R. (2018) "Rethinking digital media and political change", CONVERGENCE-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH INTO NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES. 24 (2) 168-183.
Mayer-Schoenberger, V. and Mack, L. (2018) "Zeitenwechsel - Wie Big Data Open Data verändert" In: Informationsfreiheit und Informationsrecht - Jahrbuch 2014 Dix, A. (eds.). 1-16.
Bright, J., De Sabbata, S., Lee, S., Ganesh, B. and Humphreys, D.K. (2018) "OpenStreetMap data for alcohol research: Reliability assessment and quality indicators.", Health & place. 50 130-136.
Lehdonvirta, V. (2018) "Flexibility in the gig economy: managing time on three online piecework platforms", NEW TECHNOLOGY WORK AND EMPLOYMENT. 33 (1) 13-29.
Ghezzi, P., Floridi, L., Boraschi, D., Cuadrado, A., Manda, G., Levic, S., D'Acquisto, F., Hamilton, A., Athersuch, T.J. and Selley, L. (2018) "Oxidative Stress and Inflammation Induced by Environmental and Psychological Stressors: A Biomarker Perspective.", Antioxidants & redox signaling. 28 (9) 852-872.
Janecek, V. (2018) "Ownership of personal data in the Internet of Things", Computer Law & Security Review.
Dingle, K., Camargo, C.Q. and Louis, A.A. (2018) "Input-output maps are strongly biased towards simple outputs.", Nature communications. 9 (1) 761.
Mayer-Schonberger, V. and Ramge, T. (2018) Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data. Hachette UK.
Graham, M. and Woodcock, J. (2018) "Towards a fairer platform economy: introducing the Fairwork Foundation", Alternate Routes: A Journal of Social Critical Research. 29.
Alexander, V., Blank, G. and Hale, S. (2018) "Digital Traces of Distinction? Popular Orientation and User-Engagement with Status Hierarchies in TripAdvisor Reviews of Cultural Organizations", New Media and Society.
Blank, G., Graham, M. and Calvino, C. (2018) "Local Geographies of Digital Inequality", SOCIAL SCIENCE COMPUTER REVIEW. 36 (1) 82-102.
Watson, D. and Floridi, L. (2018) "Crowdsourced science: sociotechnical epistemology in the e-research paradigm", SYNTHESE. 195 (2) 741-764.
Blank, G. and Lutz, C. (2018) "Benefits and harms from Internet use: A differentiated analysis of Great Britain", NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY. 20 (2) 618-640.
Mayer-Schönberger, V. and Ingelsson, E. (2018) "Big Data and Medicine – A Big Deal?", Journal of Internal Medicine.
WOODCOCK, J. (2018) "Digital Labour in the University: Understanding the Transformations of Academic Work in the UK", tripleC : Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 16 (1).
Hogan, B.J. (2018) "Social Media Giveth, Social Media Taketh Away: Facebook, Friendships, and APIs", International Journal of Communication. 12 592-611.
Norton, A.M., Baptist, J. and Hogan, B. (2018) "Computer-Mediated Communication in Intimate Relationships: Associations of Boundary Crossing, Intrusion, Relationship Satisfaction, and Partner Responsiveness", Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. 44 (1) 165-182.
Janecek, V. (2018) Kritika právní odpovědnosti. Wolters Kluwer.
Schroeder, R. (2018) Social Theory after the Internet Media, Technology, and Globalization. UCL Press.
Willis, M. and Meyer, E.T. (2018) "Work that enables care: Understanding tasks, automation, and the national health service", Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 10766 LNCS 544-549.
Wachter, S. (2018) "Normative challenges of identification in the Internet of Things: Privacy, profiling, discrimination, and the GDPR", Computer Law and Security Review.
Zook, M. and Graham, M. (2018) "Hacking code/space: Confounding the code of global capitalism", Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
Cope, A.P., Barnes, M.R., Belson, A., Binks, M., Brockbank, S., Bonachela-Capdevila, F., Carini, C., Fisher, B.A., Goodyear, C.S., Emery, P., Ehrenstein, M.R., Gozzard, N., Harris, R., Hollis, S., Keidel, S., Levesque, M., Lindholm, C., McDermott, M.F., McInnes, I.B., Mela, C.M., Parker, G., Read, S., Pedersen, A.W., Ponchel, F., Porter, D., Rao, R., Rowe, A., Schulz-Knappe, P., Sleeman, M.A., Symmons, D., Taylor, P.C., Tom, B., Tsuji, W., Verbeeck, D. and Isaacs, J.D. (2018) "The RA-MAP Consortium: a working model for academia-industry collaboration.", Nature reviews. Rheumatology. 14 (1) 53-60.
Bright, J. (2018) "Explaining the Emergence of Political Fragmentation on Social Media: The Role of Ideology and Extremism", JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION. 23 (1) 17-33.
Floridi, L. (2018) "What a maker's knowledge could be", SYNTHESE. 195 (1) 465-481.
Graham, M. and Anwar, M.A. (2018) "Two models for a fairer sharing economy" In: The Cambridge Handbook of Law and Regulation of the Sharing Economy Nestor Davidson, John Infranca, and MicheÌle Finck Davidson, N., Infranca, J. and Finck, M. (eds.). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Dubois, E. and Blank, G. (2018) "The echo chamber is overstated: the moderating effect of political interest and diverse media", INFORMATION COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY. 21 (5) 729-745.
Bellingham, J., Dupont, P.E., Fischer, P., Floridi, L., Full, R., Jacobstein, N., Kumar, V., McNutt, M., Merrifield, R.D., Nelson, B.J., Scassellati, B., Taddeo, M., Taylor, R., Veloso, M.M., Wang, Z.L. and Wood, R.J. (2018) "The grand challenges of Science Robotics.", Science Robotics. 3.
Foster, C., Graham, M., Mann, L., Waema, T. and Friederici, N. (2018) "Digital Control in Value Chains: Challenges of Connectivity for East African Firms", ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY. 94 (1) 68-86.
Schroeder, R. (2018) "Towards a theory of digital media", INFORMATION COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY. 21 (3) 323-339.
Foulkes, Amy C., Watson, D. and Barnes, Michael R. (2017) "Bioinformatics for dermatology – why we should learn about code", British Journal of Dermatology.
Nguyen, D., McGillivray, B. and Yasseri, T. (2017) Emo, Love, and God: Making Sense of Urban Dictionary, a Crowd-Sourced Online Dictionary.
Przybylski, A.K. and Weinstein, N. (2017) "Digital Screen Time Limits and Young Children's Psychological Well-Being: Evidence From a Population-Based Study.", Child Dev.
Janecek, V. (2017) Data ownership in IoT: ethical and regulatory implications. Living in the Internet of Things: Cybersecurity of the IoT - A PETRAS, IoTUK & IET Event.
Wachter, S., Mittelstadt, B.D.M. and Russell, C. (2017) "Counterfactual Explanations Without Opening the Black Box: Automated Decisions and the GDPR", Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.
Nash, V., Bright, J., Margetts, H. and Lehdonvirta, V. (2017) "Public Policy in the Platform Society", Policy and Internet. 9 (4) 368-373.
Floridi, L. (2017) "Infraethics–on the Conditions of Possibility of Morality", Philosophy and Technology. 30 (4) 391-394.
Öhman, C. and Floridi, L. (2017) "The Political Economy of Death in the Age of Information: A Critical Approach to the Digital Afterlife Industry", Minds and Machines. 27 (4) 639-662.
Allo, P. (2017) "The Meaning of ‘Other’ in Classifications: Formal Methods Meet Artistic Research", Philosophy and Technology. 30 (4) 541-545.
Mittelstadt, B. (2017) "From Individual to Group Privacy in Big Data Analytics", Philosophy and Technology. 30 (4) 475-494.
Taddeo, M. (2017) "Trusting Digital Technologies Correctly", MINDS AND MACHINES. 27 (4) 565-568.
Bolsover, G. and Howard, P. (2017) "Computational Propaganda and Political Big Data: Moving Toward a More Critical Research Agenda.", Big data. 5 (4) 273-276.
Murtagh, M.J., Minion, J.T., Turner, A., Wilson, R.C., Blell, M., Ochieng, C., Murtagh, B., Roberts, S., Butters, O.W. and Burton, P.R. (2017) "The ECOUTER methodology for stakeholder engagement in translational research", BMC Medical Ethics. 18 (1).
Kuksenok, K., Aragon, C., Fogarty, J., Lee, C.P. and Neff, G. (2017) "Deliberate Individual Change Framework for Understanding Programming Practices in four Oceanography Groups", Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). 26 (4-6) 663-691.
Allo, P. (2017) "Hard and soft logical information", JOURNAL OF LOGIC AND COMPUTATION. 27 (8) 2505-2524.
Graham, M., Ojanpera, S., Anwar, M.A. and Friederici, N. (2017) "Digital Connectivity and African Knowledge Economies", Questions de communication. 32.
McElwee, L. and Yasseri, T. (2017) Social Media, Money, and Politics: Campaign Finance in the 2016 US Congressional Cycle.