Thursday 15 June 2017

• 17:15 - 'Is Social Media Killing Democracy? Computational Propaganda, Algorithms, Automation and Public Life'
  Please note the change of venue - this event will now be held at the Oxford Martin School
  Professor Philip Howard (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 April 2018

• 09:30 - Kellogg Science and Humanities Seminars - New Technologies: Trends and Risks, Technoscapes and Techno-Futures
  Various Speakers

Monday 25 February 2019

• 17:15 - Large Teams Develop and Small Teams Disrupt Science and Technology
  Prof. James Evans (University of Chicago)

Thursday 28 February 2019

• 18:00 - OII Bellwether – Digital Dissonance, Disconnection and Noise: What it Means for Democracy
  Prof. Dr. Barbara Pfetsch (Freie Universität Berlin)

Tuesday 5 March 2019

• 18:00 - OII London Lecture – Tomorrow’s Leviathan: Intelligent Machines in a Political World
  Please note this event is held in London
  Prof. Phil Howard (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 May 2019

• 17:30 - Connected cots, talking teddies and the rise of the algorithmic child: Protecting children in the era of smart homes
  Drinks reception will follow lecture
  Dr Victoria Nash (The Oxford Internet Institute,University of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 November 2019

• 16:30 - OII Colloquia: Powering Collective Action with Artificial Intelligence
  Drinks reception after the talk
  TBA

Tuesday 3 December 2019

• 12:30 - Parli: building an encyclopaedia of opinion
  Turi Munthe

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 16:30 - Algorithmic or human bias? Understanding discrimination in the gig economy
  TBA

Wednesday 11 March 2020

• 12:30 - *CANCELLED* OII Bellwether Lecture: Elizabeth Denham
  This event is now cancelled. Apologies for any inconveniences caused
  Elizabeth Denham CBE (The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO))

Wednesday 6 May 2020

• 13:00 - AI and Religious Beliefs
  Professor Yorick Wilks (Kellogg College)

Wednesday 13 May 2020

• 13:00 - The good, the Bad, and the Ugly Data: Opportunities and Challenges for Data Science and Contact Tracing on SARS-CoV-2
  TBA

Wednesday 20 May 2020

• 18:00 - 'Lie Machines' Book Launch
  Professor Philip Howard (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 27 May 2020

• 18:00 - COVID-19 apps and ethical considerations
  Professor Luciano Floridi (Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, University of Oxford))

Wednesday 3 June 2020

• 13:00 - The risks of trusting AI for national defence purposes
  Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 10 June 2020

• 13:00 - Why Fairness Cannot Be Automated: Bridging the Gap Between EU Non-Discrimination Law and AI
  Dr Sandra Wachter (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 24 June 2020

• 10:00 - 'Lie Machines' UK Book Launch
  Professor Philip Howard (University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - Countering the COVID-19 Misinfodemic with Text Similarity and Social Data Science
  Dr Scott A. Hale (University of Oxford)

Monday 20 July 2020

• 13:00 - The Tech Response to COVID-19
  Professor Philip Howard (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 July 2020

• 13:00 - The Fairwork Foundation: Strategies for Improving Platform Work
  Funda Ustek-Spilda (Goldsmiths University of London), Srujana Katta (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 14 October 2020

• 18:00 - OII's Wednesday Webinar Week 1 'Decoding an Election: Highly Targeted Political Advertising and US2020'
  John Chadfield (Who Targets Me), Russell Garner

Monday 19 October 2020

• 16:30 - OxDEG Webinar: The Intellivision System: Video Game History, Affordance Zones, and Productive Constraint
  Professor Tom Boellstroff (University of California, Irvine)

Wednesday 21 October 2020

• 17:00 - OII’s Wednesday Webinar Week 2 'Artificial Intelligence & Social Justice' Professor Meredith Broussard
  Professor Meredith Broussard (Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University)

Wednesday 28 October 2020

• 17:00 - OII’s Wednesday Webinar Week 3 ‘Data, Governance and Geopolitics’
  Pari Esfandiari (Global TechnoPolitics Forum), Greg Treverton (lobal TechnoPolitics Forum)

Monday 2 November 2020

• 15:30 - OxDEG Webinar: Do we need a canonised digital social research?
  Professor Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri (University of Trento)

Wednesday 4 November 2020

• 13:00 - OII’s Wednesday Webinar Week 4 ‘Are We Really Living in an Infodemic? Deconstructing a Buzzword’
  Dr Chico Camargo (Oxford Internet Institute), Felix M. Simon (Oxford Internet Institute)

Wednesday 11 November 2020

• 17:30 - OII’s Wednesday Webinar Week 5 'Understanding Digital Racism After COVID-19’ with Professor Lisa Nakamura
  Professor Lisa Nakamura (University of Michigan)

Monday 16 November 2020

• 15:30 - OxDEG Webinar: Music Videos and Prosthetic Memories in Pakistan’s Coke Studio
  Dr Richard Williams (SOAS University of London)

Wednesday 18 November 2020

• 13:00 - OII’s Wednesday Webinar Week 6 ‘There’s an app for that: Tech governance during COVID-19’
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 25 November 2020

• 13:00 - OII's Wednesday Webinar Week 7: Professor Sinan Aral in conversation with Dr Jonathan Bright
  Dr Jonathan Bright (Oxford Internet Institute), Professor Sinan Aral (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Monday 30 November 2020

• 15:30 - OxDEG Webinar: Fedoras, Virgins, and Hardware: Hackathons and the social dynamics of competitive creation
  Dr Siân Brooke (LSE)

Wednesday 2 December 2020

• 16:00 - OII’s Wednesday Webinar Week 8 ‘Destroy the Internet Advertising Economy With This One Weird Trick’
  Tim Hwang

Wednesday 20 January 2021

• 18:00 - OII’s Wednesday Webinar Week 1 'Video game play is positively correlated with well-being'
  Professor Andrew Przybylski (The Oxford Internet Institute), Dr Niklas Johannes (The Oxford Internet Institute)

Monday 25 January 2021

• 15:30 - OxDEG: Civic Technology and ethnography: navigating theory, politics and power
  Dr Andrew Schrock, Cyd Harrell, Alex Blandford

Wednesday 27 January 2021

• 13:00 - OII’s Wednesday Webinar Week 2 ‘Understanding anti-vaxx communities on social media’
  Dr Aliaksandr Herasimenka (Oxford Internet Institute), Professor Philip Howard (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 3 February 2021

• 18:00 - OII’s Wednesday Webinar Week 3 'The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain in Times of Crisis'
  Professor Gina Neff (Oxford Internet Institute, Department of Sociology, Senior Research Associate, Christ Church, University of Oxford), Dr Francesca Sobande (Cardiff University)

Thursday 4 February 2021

• 17:00 - Reconfigure: Feminist Action Research in Cybersecurity (Report Launch)
  Professor Gina Neff (Oxford Internet Institute, Department of Sociology, Senior Research Associate, Christ Church, University of Oxford), Julia Slupska (Mansfield College), Scarlet Dawson Duckworth (Oxford Internet Institute)

Monday 8 February 2021

• 15:30 - OxDEG: The performance of (many) selves in everyday digital life: immersive cohabitation and self-portraiture as a viable ethnographic method
  Dr Joshua Bluteau (Coventry University)

Wednesday 10 February 2021

• 18:00 - OII Wednesday Webinar Week 4 ‘Tristan Harris in conversation with Professor Victoria Nash’
  Tristan Harris (Center for Humane Technology), Professor Victoria Nash (Oxford Internet Institute)

Wednesday 17 February 2021

• 17:00 - OII’s Wednesday Webinar Week 5 'Root Systems, Land Cultivation, and Hurricanes: The Benefits and Limitations of Applying Ecological Metaphors to Information Dysfunction'
  Professor Whitney Phillips (Syracuse University), Felix M. Simon (Oxford Internet Institute), Dr Ryan M.Milner (College of Charleston)

Monday 22 February 2021

• 15:30 - OxDEG: Deceitful media: Artificial Intelligence and social life after the Turing Test
  Professor Simone Natale (University of Turin & Loughborough University)

Wednesday 24 February 2021

• 17:00 - OII’s Wednesday Webinar Week 6 ‘What is “urban data justice”?: Defining, conceptualizing, and exploring data use, re-use, and refusal for racial justice’
  Professor Gina Neff (Oxford Internet Institute, Department of Sociology, Senior Research Associate, Christ Church, University of Oxford), Dr Matthew Bui (NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology)

Wednesday 3 March 2021

• 13:00 - OII's Wednesday Webinar Week 7 'From facial recognition technology to children online: regulating data protection in 2021'
  Elizabeth Denham CBE (The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)), Professor Victoria Nash (Oxford Internet Institute)

Monday 8 March 2021

• 15:30 - OxDEG: Digital Ethnographic Methods Surgery 3
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 10 March 2021

• 18:00 - OII’s Wednesday Webinar Week 8 ‘The Future of Knowledge Governance: Sharing and Creating Knowledge for All’
  Katherine Maher (CEO and Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation), Professor Philip Howard (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 17 March 2021

• 18:00 - OII’s Wednesday Webinar Week 9 'People You May Know'
  Dr Charles Kriel (Metronone Media), Katharina Gellein Viken (Bifröst Media)

Tuesday 15 June 2021

• 15:30 - Fairwork Cloudwork Ratings 2021: Labour Standards in the Cloudwork Economy
  Various Speakers

Thursday 28 October 2021

• 17:30 - Unpaid Labour in the Platform Economy: A Typology of Wage Theft in the Digital Age
  Dr Matthew Cole (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 10 November 2021

• 16:00 - Death of distance, resurrection of borders: Paradoxes of remote labour markets on the Internet
  Professor Vili Lehdonvirta (Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research, Oxford University)

Thursday 24 February 2022

• 17:00 - Fake AI, snake oil, pseudoscience and hype
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 16 March 2022

• 17:00 - Platform labour in Hong Kong and China
  Chris King Chi Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Wednesday 27 April 2022

• 12:00 - Tech policy from ground zero to today: a regulator’s view from the frontlines to the future of online safety
  Julie Inman Grant (Australia’s eSafety Commissioner), Professor Victoria Nash (Oxford Internet Institute)

Tuesday 3 May 2022

• 17:00 - Going Native and Compiling Code
  Dr Sian Brooke (LSE)

Monday 30 May 2022

• 15:30 - OxDEG – Sex Robots: The end of love
  Professor Kathleen Richardson (De Montfort University)

Tuesday 7 June 2022

• 13:30 - Cognitive Arrest in Conspiracism
  Jeong-Nam Kim (University of Oklahoma)

Wednesday 15 June 2022

• 12:00 - OII/TUM Heilbronn series on AI & Work: The Hidden Labour of AI
  Various Speakers

Friday 17 June 2022

• 09:00 - Connected Life: Designing Digital Futures
  Various Speakers

Thursday 23 June 2022

• 12:00 - Shaping data and tech policy
  Professor Victoria Nash (Oxford Internet Institute), Jas Johl (Oxford Internet Institute), David Tomchak (Oxford Internet Institute), Sir Julian King, Luís Viegas Cardoso (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) Showcase 2022

Wednesday 12 October 2022

• 12:00 - An introduction to Critical Caste and Technology Studies with Dr Murali Shanmugavelan
  Please see the registration link below for attendance at this event.
  Dr Murali Shanmugavelan (OII)

Wednesday 19 October 2022

• 17:00 - “The automated gate let me go out, but I feel in prison”: rethinking control over refugees through and beyond technological disruptions. from Dr Martina Tazzioli
  Please see the registration link below for attendance at this event.
  Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Wednesday 26 October 2022

• 17:00 - Lessons learned from 2 years of combating misinformation on COVID-19 with the United Nations ‘Verified’ Initiative’ with Gautam Raju
  Please see the registration link below for attendance at this event.
  Gautam Raju (OII)

Wednesday 2 November 2022

• 17:00 - Escape: How a generation shaped, destroyed and survived the internet with Marie Le Conte
  Please see the registration link below for attendance at this event.
  Marie Le Conte (politics writer)

Wednesday 9 November 2022

• 17:00 - The Power of Platforms with Rasmus Kleis Nielsen & Sarah Ganter
  This event will be online: please see the registration link below for attendance
  Rasmus Nielsen (Politics and Reuters Institute), Sarah Ganter (Reuters Institute)

Wednesday 16 November 2022

• 11:00 - Going Native and Compiling Code: How to explore equality in technology with Dr Sian Brooke
  Please see the registration link below for attendance at this event.
  Dr Sian Brooke (LSE)

Wednesday 23 November 2022

• 17:00 - Countering misinformation in partnership with diaspora communities
  Please see the registration link below for attendance at this event.
  Scott Hale (OII, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 1 February 2023

• 17:00 - Internet Freedom: information communication, accessibility and archiving
  Online-only talk. Sign up on Eventbrite for link.
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 8 February 2023

• 12:30 - Online Abuse and How to Fight Back
  In-person and online. Sign up on Eventbrite for the Zoom link.
  Nina Jankowicz (Centre for information Resilience)

Monday 13 February 2023

• 13:45 - Defining social data science as the science of social measurement
  In-person and online. Book your spot at https://Social-data-science-talk.eventbrite.co.uk
  Dr Bernie Hogan (Oxford Internet Institute)

Wednesday 15 February 2023

• 17:00 - The Influence of the Internet and Tech on Global Press Freedom
  This event will be in-person and streamed via Zoom
  Lidewij van Vliet (Free Press Unlimited), Maryia Soudouskaya-Komlach (Free Press Unlimited), Tom Keunen (Free Press Unlimited), Flora Shulte Nordholt (Free Press Unlimited)

Tuesday 21 February 2023

• 12:30 - Guest talk from the UK Information Commissioner
  John Edwards (Information Commissioner's Office)

Friday 3 March 2023

• 17:30 - The Social Datathon 2023: Finding Green Skills
  How to participate: If you are interested in participating then please use the application form. The application requires a team size of two to five participants. Applications close on February 12th 2023. Further details on the event and the outcome of the application will follow in the week after the deadline. Please use the link provided below.
  TBA

Monday 6 March 2023

• 17:15 - Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy
  This event will be in-person and streamed via Zoom.
  Dr. Sarrah Kassem (University of Tübingen)

Wednesday 8 March 2023

• 12:30 - The social relations of semi-automation
  This event will be in-person and streamed via Zoom.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Phoebe V Moore (University of Essex)
• 15:00 - Workforce Ecosystems: Reaching Strategic Goals with People, Partners, and Technologies.
  This event will be in-person and streamed via Zoom
  Prof. Elizabeth J. Altman (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
• 17:00 - The Digital Republic: How to regulate digital technology
  This event will be in-person and streamed via Zoom.
  Jamie Susskind

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 16:00 - Making Cringe Content: The Performativity of Algorithms in Creative Labor
  This event will be in-person and streamed via Zoom.
  Ashley Mears (Boston University)

Tuesday 28 March 2023

• 12:00 - Social media: from liberative force to (existential) danger for democracy?
  Dr Aliaksandr Herasimenka (The Oxford Internet Institute), Mahsa Alimardani (The Oxford Internet Institute), Dr Jens Forderer (Technical University of Munich), Michaela Lindenmayr (Technical University of Munich)

Tuesday 4 April 2023

• 12:00 - Digital Identity Systems: Lessons from Kenya
  Mustafa Mahmoud (Namati), Lori Roussey (Data Rights), Keegan McBride (The Oxford Internet Institute), Ana Valdivia (The Oxford Internet Institute)

Monday 17 April 2023

• 13:00 - "Governing Digital China: Managing Citizen Participation under Political Change" by Prof Daniela Stockmann
  Prof Daniela Stockmann (The Hertie School)

Wednesday 26 April 2023

• 13:00 - Prof Carolyn Heinrich, "When technology delivers all of the instruction in a classroom: Immediate and longer-term impacts for learners"
  Professor Carolyn Heinrich (George Eastman Visiting Professor, Balliol College, Oxford)

Wednesday 3 May 2023

• 13:00 - Do labour platforms reproduce inequalities? by Pia Garavaglia
  Pia Garavaglia (Fairwork Argentina and University of Buenos Aires)

Wednesday 10 May 2023

• 13:00 - "Technology-facilitated abuse ("tech abuse") in the context of intimate partner violence" by Dr Leonie Tanczer
  Leonie Tanczer (UCL)

Thursday 11 May 2023

• 15:00 - "Data Access/ Data Journalism in the Non-West: Uncovering the Impact of State Influence on Data-Driven News" by Dr Shangyuan Wu
  This talk is in person only at 41 St Giles
  Dr Shangyuan Wu (National University of Singapore)

Tuesday 16 May 2023

• 12:30 - "Creepy Glitches: Data, Desire and Domestic Work" by Dr Kavita Dattani
  Dr Kavita Dattani (The Oxford Internet Institute)

Wednesday 17 May 2023

• 17:00 - "How the Web Should Work" by Jon Nash
  Jon Nash (Demos)

Wednesday 24 May 2023

• 13:00 - Are robots the solution to Japan’s care crisis? by Dr James Wright
  Dr James Wright (The Alan Turing Institute)

Wednesday 31 May 2023

• 13:00 - Threats and Opportunities for Journalism in the Age of AI
  Roman Höfner (Der Spiegel), Ann-Katrin Müller (Der Spiegel)

Monday 5 June 2023

• 17:00 - The Rainbow System: Queer Data and the Limits of LGBTQ Inclusion
  Kevin Guyan (University of Glasgow)

Wednesday 7 June 2023

• 13:00 - Geopolitics of AI and Digital Innovation
  Michael Kratsios (Scale AI), Keegan McBride (The Oxford Internet Institute)
• 17:00 - Looking Past the Hype – The Real Implications of Artificial Intelligence for the Public Sector
  Keegan McBride (The Oxford Internet Institute)

Wednesday 14 June 2023

• 12:30 - "Computer Says No: Investigating the Impact of advanced technology on Rural SMEs" by Susan Sheldrick
  Susan Sheldrick (University of Melbourne)

Thursday 22 June 2023

• 13:00 - Communicating climate change in digital spaces: How sceptical views of science and knowledge overconfidence challenge science communication on social media
  Dr Niels Mede (University of Zurich)

Wednesday 11 October 2023

• 17:00 - "Exploring the Ethical Implications of AI and Robotics for Healthcare: A Cross-Cultural Study" Dr Giulia De Togni
  Dr Giulia de Togni (University of Edinburgh)

Wednesday 18 October 2023

• 13:00 - "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" by Prof Anu Bradford
  Prof Anu Bradford (Columbia Law School)

Wednesday 25 October 2023

• 13:00 - "We need to talk about misogynoir: detecting and preventing online abuse against Black women" Dr Julia Slupska and Mutale Nkonde
  Dr Julia Slupska (Glitch), Mutale Nkonde (The Oxford Internet Institute)

Thursday 26 October 2023

• 09:00 - Searching for a Place at the Table: What is The Role of the United Kingdom in the Development and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence?
  Keegan McBride (The Oxford Internet Institute), Professor Helen Margetts (University of Oxford), Kayla Blomquist (The Oxford Internet Institute), Jennifer Beroshi (Google DeepMind)

Monday 30 October 2023

• 15:30 - Whatever works: digital ethnography as a flat methodology
  Dr John Postill (RMIT University)
• 17:15 - Illuminating the Illuminated: Uncovering Patterns in Indecipherable Books
  Dr Joss Wright (Oxford Internet Institute)

Wednesday 1 November 2023

• 12:30 - "Digital Divides? Divergent Effects of Broadband Internet Expansion on Adolescent Educational Outcomes" Prof Pablo Gracia
  Pablo Gracia (Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin)

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 17:00 - How older audiences are erased, distorted and misunderstood in social & search, and the ethics of using AI to address representation gaps in advertising
  Stuart Bowden (Wavemaker), Aleksandra Grabowska (Wavemaker)

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• 13:00 - The Flexibility Paradox: Why flexible working leads to more work and what we should do ab
  Prof Heejung Chung (University of Kent)

Friday 17 November 2023

• 14:00 - Cambridge Analytica, 5 Years On
  The event is in-person only at Said Business School, Park End Street and consists of 2 panels 2-4:30pm with a refreshment break followed by a drinks reception at 4:30.
  Professor Victoria Nash (Oxford Internet Institute), Professor Helen Margetts (University of Oxford), Elizabeth Denham CBE (The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)), Lord Tim Clement Jones (House of Lords), Felix Simon (Oxford Internet Institute), Steve Wood (Oxford Internet Institute), Ravi Naik (Oxford Internet Institute), Frederike Kaltheuner

Wednesday 22 November 2023

• 17:00 - The Effect of the Typicality of Lyrics on Song Popularity
  Prof Danilo C. Dantas (HEC Montréal)

Wednesday 29 November 2023

• 13:00 - "The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China" with Prof Ya-Wen Lei
  Prof Ya-Wen Lei (Harvard University)

Friday 1 December 2023

• 13:00 - Can Computers Create Art?
  Aaron Hertzmann (Adobe)

Monday 4 December 2023

• 13:00 - Gig Capital: Mapping finance and investment in digital platforms
  Prof Oscar Javier Maldonado Castañeda (Universidad del Rosario)

Thursday 7 December 2023

• 13:00 - OII/TUM Heilbronn series on AI & Work: From the Classroom to the Workplace – AI Technologies and the Changing Face of Education
  Dr Lulu Shi (Oxford Internet Institute and Department of Education Oxford), Fabian Stephany (Oxford Internet Institute), Prof Stephan Krusche (Technical University Munich)

Wednesday 17 January 2024

• 17:00 - Understanding the role of international cooperation in building a fair future of digital platform work
  Shakhlo Kakharova (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ))

Wednesday 24 January 2024

• 17:00 - Decoding deceptive algorithms: risks, public accountability, and regulation
  Dr Luc Rocher (Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University)

Wednesday 31 January 2024

• 17:00 - Revisiting uncertainty: The Governance of assisted reproductive technologies in China
  Dr Tiantian Chen (Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University)

Wednesday 7 February 2024

• 17:00 - Zooming in on the digital aspects of the Indonesian election
  Licinia Guttel (Oxford Internet Institute), Justin Yeung (Oxford Internet Institute), Diyi Liu (Oxford Internet Institute), Dr Rizal Shidiq (Leiden University)

Monday 12 February 2024

• 13:45 - The impact of founder personalities on startup success
  Dr Fabian Braesemann (Departmental Research Lecturer in AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 14 February 2024

• 17:00 - Data Money: How a New Money Material is Changing Economies
  Prof Koray Caliskan (The New School, Parsons School of Design)

Wednesday 21 February 2024

• 17:00 - The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy
  Prof Ignacio Cofone (McGill University Faculty of Law)

Wednesday 28 February 2024

• 17:00 - AI in disguise: AI-generated ads outperform human-made ads if they don't look like AI
  Prof Jochen Hartmann (Technical University of Munich)

Wednesday 6 March 2024

• 17:00 - Code Dependent
  Please note the venue has changed to Said Business School
  Madhumita Murgia (Financial Times)

Wednesday 13 March 2024

• 17:00 - From Space Internet to Cloud Computing: the future of big tech is in infrastructure
  Dr Corinne Cath (Delft University of Technology), Dr Luc Rocher (Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University), Yung Au (Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University), Dr Ashwin Mathew (Kings College London)

Wednesday 24 April 2024

• 13:00 - Refusing AI: How Journalists Avoid Falling for AI’s Hype
  Dr Tomás Dodds (Leiden University)

Wednesday 1 May 2024

• 17:00 - The Promise and Perils of China’s Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
  Prof Angela Zhang (University of Hong Kong)

Wednesday 8 May 2024

• 17:00 - Critical data studies with Latin America: Theorizing beyond data colonialism
  Dr Jonas Valente (Oxford Internet Institute), Dr Rafael Grohmann (University of Toronto)

Wednesday 15 May 2024

• 17:00 - Offensive cyber operations under international law – an interactive case study
  Dr Pia Hüsch (RUSI)

Thursday 16 May 2024

• 17:00 - Bio-algorithmic Entanglements: Crafting our Pluriversal Future
  Dr Paola Ricaurte (Tecnológico de Monterrey)

Monday 20 May 2024

• 14:00 - Evaluating the Internet Governance Forum in a broader digital governance landscape
  Dorottya Zsiboracs (Oxford Internet Institute), Emily Taylor (DNS Research Federation), Georgia Osborn (DNS Research Federation)
• 15:00 - Workshop: Shaping the Future of Internet Governance: Drafting a Resolution for WSIS+2
  Dorottya Zsiboracs (Oxford Internet Institute), Emily Taylor (DNS Research Federation), Georgia Osborn (DNS Research Federation)

Wednesday 22 May 2024

• 13:00 - How is AI shaping the future of Digital Democracy?
  Elaine Ford (Oxford Internet Institute)

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 16:00 - The Oxford Science of Startups Initiative Launch Event
  Prof Paul X. McCarthy (UNSW Sydney), Dr Fabian Braesemann (Departmental Research Lecturer in AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford), Guy Gadney (Charisma.ai), Clara Durodié (Cognitive Finance Group)

Tuesday 4 June 2024

• 13:00 - European Elections 2024: Examining Digital and Far-Right Dynamics
  Licinia Guttel (Oxford Internet Institute), Sir Julian King, Tarik Abou-Chadi (Nuffield College), Dr Donatella Bonansinga (University College London)

Wednesday 5 June 2024

• 13:00 - Digital knowledge exchange within Africa’s innovation ecosystem – What is happening in Lagos?
  Dr Raymond Onuoha (Oxford Internet Institute)

Wednesday 12 June 2024

• 12:30 - OII Pride Lecture "AI in Media: Impact on LGBTQ+ Lives"
  Andreas Finzel (Magnite)

Wednesday 16 October 2024

• 13:00 - Collective trivialization of rape: an investigation of sexual violence in incel forums
  Trigger warning: this talk will include examples and visuals concerning gender-based hate and sexual violence, which might be triggering to some.
  Dr Mathilda Åkerlund (DIGSUM)

Friday 18 October 2024

• 12:00 - Ride or die: making the long-overdue case for food delivery gig work as highly skilled
  Dr Adam Badger (Newcastle University)

Friday 25 October 2024

• 12:00 - The role of digital tools in low-income women’s economic empowerment: Insights from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  Dr Diva Dhar (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), Leesa Shrader (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 17:30 - The 2024 US election and its digital aspects
  Dr Caroline Leicht (University of Glasgow), Keegan McBride (The Oxford Internet Institute), Prathm Juneja (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford), Licinia Guttel (Oxford Internet Institute)

Wednesday 30 October 2024

• 17:00 - OII Halloween Lecture. Sasquatch Distribution Modelling: Investigating patterns of Bigfoot sightings in North America
  Prof Joss Wright (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)

Friday 1 November 2024

• 12:00 - Human Capabilities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Learning Machines
  Prof Anoush Margaryan (Copenhagen Business School)

Friday 8 November 2024

• 12:00 - Living with Digital Surveillance in China. Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance
  Prof Ariane Ollier-Malaterre (University of Quebec)

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 17:30 - Museologies for and in more-than-human worlds
  Prof Fiona Cameron (Western Sydney University)

Friday 22 November 2024

• 12:00 - Turning the tide: public measures to counter ransomware
  Roxana Radu (Blavatnik School of Government)

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 17:30 - Behind the Algorithmic Code: The Environmental Footprint of AI's Supply Chains
  Ana Valdivia (The Oxford Internet Institute)

Friday 29 November 2024

• 12:00 - From tribes to tropes: Network polarisation and false consensus around COVID-19 science
  Alexandros Efstratiou (UCL)