Publications

Latest Books

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The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction

Jamie Woodcock, Mark Graham

Drawing upon years of research, stories from gig workers, and a review of the key trends and debates, Jamie Woodcock and Mark Graham shed light on how the gig economy came to be, how it works and what it’s like to work in it.
Book

How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables

Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Mattern, Joe Shaw (eds)

With 44 contributing authors and 38 chapters, the book playfully combines speculative fiction and analysis of 38 different business models and practices when applied to running our cities of the future.
Book

Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing Our Lives (2nd Edition)

Mark Graham, William Dutton (eds)

How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work? This volume addresses the big questions about one of the most significant technological transformations of this century.
Book

The Logic of Information

Luciano Floridi

A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design

Latest Articles, Conference Proceedings and Other Publications

Yan, P. and Schroeder, R. (2021) "Grassroots information divides in China: Theorising everyday information practices in the Global South", Telematics and Informatics. 63.
Hakimi, L., EYNON, R. and MURPHY, V. (2021) "The ethics of using digital trace data in education: A thematic review of the research landscape", Review of Educational Research. 91 (5) 671-717.
Laux, J., WACHTER, S. and MITTELSTADT, B. (2021) "Taming the Few: Platform Regulation, Independent Audits, and the Risks of Capture Created by the DMA and DSA", Computer Law and Security Review: the International Journal of Technology Law and Practice.
Ronayne, D. and TAYLOR, G. (2021) "Competing Sales Channels With Captive Consumers", The Economic Journal.
Ferrari, F. and Graham, M. (2021) "Fissures in algorithmic power: platforms, code, and contestation", Cultural Studies. 35 (4-5) 814-832.
Heeks, R., Gomez-Morantes, J.E., Graham, M., Howson, K., Mungai, P., Nicholson, B. and Van Belle, J.-.P. (2021) "Digital platforms and institutional voids in developing countries: The case of ride-hailing markets", World Development. 145 105528.
Freeman, J. and NEFF, G. (2021) "The Challenge of Repurposed Technologies for Youth: Understanding the Unique Affordances of Digital Self-Tracking for Adolescents", New Media and Society. 146144482110402.
Kirk, H.R., VIDGEN, B., Röttger, P., Thrush, T. and HALE, S. (2021) Hatemoji: A Test Suite and Adversarially-Generated Dataset for Benchmarking and Detecting Emoji-based Hate.
Kirk, H., VIDGEN, B., Röttger, P. and HALE, S. (2021) "Hatemoji: A Test Suite and Adversarially-Generated Dataset for Benchmarking and Detecting Emoji-based Hate", Working paper.
Kazemi, A., Garimella, K., Gaffney, D. and HALE, S. (2021) "Claim Matching Beyond English to Scale Global Fact-Checking", Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL-IJCNLP 2021Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers). 4504-4517.
Watson, D.S. and Wright, M.N. (2021) "Testing Conditional Independence in Supervised Learning Algorithms", Machine Learning. 110 (8) 2107-2129.
Hine, E., Morley, J., Taddeo, M. and Floridi, L. (2021) COVID-19 Vaccine Passports: Human Rights and the Need for Pro-Ethical Design.
Hofman, J.M., Watts, D.J., Athey, S., Garip, F., Griffiths, T.L., Kleinberg, J., Margetts, H., Mullainathan, S., Salganik, M.J., Vazire, S., Vespignani, A. and Yarkoni, T. (2021) "Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science", Nature. 595 (7866) 181-188.
Cath, C. (2021) "The technology we choose to create: Human rights advocacy in the Internet Engineering Task Force", Telecommunications Policy. 45 (6) 102144.
Howson, K., Ustek-Spilda, F., Bertolini, A., Heeks, R., FERRARI, F., KATTA, S., Cole, M., Aguera Reneses, P., Salem, N., SUTCLIFFE, D., Steward, S. and GRAHAM, M. (2021) "Stripping back the mask: Working conditions on digital labour platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic", International Labour Review.
Howson, K., Ustek-Spilda, F., Bertolini, A., Heeks, R., FERRARI, F., KATTA, S., Cole, M., Aguera Reneses, P., Salem, N., SUTCLIFFE, D., Steward, S. and GRAHAM, M. (2021) "Stripping back the mask: Working conditions on digital labour platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic", International Labour Review.
Watson, D.S. (2021) Rational Shapley Values.
Lee, M.S.A., Floridi, L. and Singh, J. (2021) "Formalising trade-offs beyond algorithmic fairness: lessons from ethical philosophy and welfare economics", AI and Ethics.
Botelho, A., Vidgen, B. and Hale, S.A. (2021) "Deciphering Implicit Hate: Evaluating Automated Detection Algorithms for Multimodal Hate", Findings of ACL, 2021.
Watson, D., Gultchin, L., Taly, A. and Floridi, L. (2021) "Local Explanations Via Necessity and Sufficiency: Unifying Theory and Practice", CoRR. abs/2103.14651.
Kazemi, A., Garimella, K., Shahi, G.K., Gaffney, D. and Hale, S.A. (2021) Tiplines to Combat Misinformation on Encrypted Platforms: A Case Study of the 2019 Indian Election on WhatsApp.
Gultchin, L., Watson, D.S., Kusner, M.J. and Silva, R. (2021) "Operationalizing Complex Causes: A Pragmatic View of Mediation", International Conference on Machine Learning 2021.
Taddeo, M., Tsamados, A., Cowls, J. and Floridi, L. (2021) "Artificial Intelligence and the Climate Emergency: Opportunities, Challenges, and Recommendations", One Earth. 4 (6) 776-779.
Allmann, K., Blank, G. and Wong, A. (2021) Libraries on the Front Lines of the Digital Divide: The Oxfordshire Digital Inclusion Project Report.
Floridi, L. (2021) "The European Legislation on AI: A Brief Analysis of its Philosophical Approach", Philosophy and Technology. 34 (2) 215-222.
Margetts, H., Lehdonvirta, V., González‐Bailón, S., Hutchinson, J., Bright, J., Nash, V. and Sutcliffe, D. (2021) "The Internet and public policy: Future directions", Policy & Internet. 13 (2) 162-184.
Mittelstadt, B. (2021) "Near-term ethical challenges of digital twins", Journal of Medical Ethics. 47 (6) 405-406.
MILANO, S., MITTELSTADT, B., WACHTER, S. and Russell, C. (2021) "Epistemic fragmentation poses a threat to the governance of online targeting", Nature Machine Intelligence. 3 (6) 466-472.
Robertson, A., Liza, F.F., Nguyen, D., McGillivray, B. and Hale, S.A. (2021) "Semantic Journeys: Quantifying Change in Emoji Meaning from 2012-2018", 4th International Workshop on Emoji Understanding and Applications in Social Media 2021.
Fitzgerald, J., Ojanperä, S. and O’Clery, N. (2021) "Is academia becoming more localised? The growth of regional knowledge networks within international research collaboration", Applied Network Science. 6 (1).
Morley, J., Powell, J. and Floridi, L. (2021) What's the Evidence that Health Apps Work? A Scoping Study of Evidence of Effectiveness for Direct-to-Consumer Apps on the App Store.
Roberts, H., Cowls, J., Hine, E., Mazzi, F., Tsamados, A., Taddeo, M. and Floridi, L. (2021) Achieving a ‘Good AI Society’: comparing the aims and progress of the EU and the US.
Kässi, O., Lehdonvirta, V. and Stephany, F. (2021) "How Many Online Workers are there in the World? A Data-Driven Assessment", Open Research Europe. 1.
SCHROEDER, R. (2021) "Digital Media and the Globalizing Spread of Populism" In: The Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and Globalization. Routledge. 179-187.
Mökander, J. and Schroeder, R. (2021) "AI and social theory", AI & SOCIETY.
SCHLIEBS, M., Bailey, H., BRIGHT, J. and Howard, P.N. (2021) "China’s Inauthentic UK Twitter Diplomacy: A Coordinated Network Amplifying PRC Diplomats", DemTech Working PaperDemTech Working Paper. Oxford, UK: Programme on Democracy and Technology, Oxford University.
SCHLIEBS, M., BAILEY, H., BRIGHT, J. and HOWARD, P.N. (2021) "China's Public Diplomacy Operations: Understanding Engagement and Inauthentic Amplification of PRC Diplomats on Facebook and Twitter", DemTech Working PaperDemTech Working Paper. Oxford, UK: Programme on Democracy and Technology, Oxford University.
Slupska, J., Duckworth, S.D., Ma, L. and NEFF, G. (2021) "Participatory Threat Modelling: Exploring Paths to Reconfigure Cybersecurity", CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’21 Extended Abstracts). ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Yokohama, Japan (virtual), 8 – 13 May 2021. Association for Computing Machinery.
Fu, Y., Jin, H., Xiang, H. and Wang, N. (2021) "Optimal lockdown policy for vaccination during COVID-19 pandemic", Finance Research Letters. 102123.
Vogl, T. (2021) Artificial Intelligence in Local Government: Enabling Artificial Intelligence for Good Governance in UK Local Authorities. Oxford, UK: Oxford Commission on AI & Good Governance, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
Floridi, L. (2021) "The Fight for Digital Sovereignty: What It Is, and Why It Matters, Especially for the EU", Philosophy and Technology. 33 (3) 369-378.
Morley, J., Morton, C., Karpathakis, K., Taddeo, M. and Floridi, L. (2021) "Towards a Framework for Evaluating the Safety, Acceptability and Efficacy of Ai Systems for Health: An Initial Synthesis", CoRR. abs/2104.06910.
Wachter, S. (2021) "Affinity Profiling and Discrimination by Association in Online Behavioural Advertising", Berkeley Technology Law Journal. 35 (2) 369-430.
Laux, J., Wachter, S. and Mittelstadt, B. (2021) "Neutralizing Online Behavioural Advertising: Algorithmic Targeting with Market Power as an Unfair Commercial Practice", Common Market Law Review. 58 (3) 719-750.
Allmann, K. and Blank, G. (2021) "Rethinking digital skills in the era of compulsory computing: methods, measurement, policy and theory", Information, Communication & Society. 24 (5) 633-648.
Ramizo, G.J.R. (2021) "Platform Playbook: A Typology of Consumer Strategies against Algorithmic Control in Digital Platforms", Information, Communication and Society.
Ahmed, Z., Vidgen, B. and Hale, S.A. (2021) Tackling Racial Bias in Automated Online Hate Detection: Towards Fair and Accurate Classification of Hateful Online Users Using Geometric Deep Learning.
WOOD, A.J. and LEHDONVIRTA, V. (2021) "Antagonism beyond employment- how the ‘subordinated agency’ of labour platforms generates conflict in the remote gig economy", Socio-Economic Review.
Cowls, J., Tsamados, A., Taddeo, M. and Floridi, L. (2021) The AI Gambit — Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Combat Climate Change: Opportunities, Challenges, and Recommendations.
NICHOLLS, T. and CULPEPPER, P. (2021) "Computational identification of media frames: strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities", Political Communication: an international journal. 38 (1-2) 159-181.

Publications

The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction

How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables

Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing Our Lives (2nd Edition)

The Logic of Information