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

• 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
  Luc Rocher (University of Oxford)

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), Luc Rocher (University of Oxford), 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)

Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 17:30 - Harnessing Partisan Motives to Combat Misinformation
  Cameron Martel (MIT)

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 17:30 - The Role and Impact of Parental control Technologies in Parent-Teen Relationships
  Ekaterina Hertog (Oxford Internet Institute), Professor Victoria Nash (Oxford Internet Institute), Prof Netta Weinstein (University of Reading)

Friday 31 January 2025

• 15:00 - Using Large Language Models for Research Evaluation in the REF
  Prof Mike Thelwall (University of Sheffield)

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 17:30 - Beyond geopolitics: Agency and modularity in mobile telecommunications in Kazakhstan
  Oyuna Baldakova (King’s College London)

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 17:15 - AI’s Ripple Effect on Skills and Labour Markets: Evidence from Two Years with the SkillScale Project
  This event is now being held 5:15-6:15pm
  Fabian Stephany (Oxford Internet Institute)

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 17:30 - Algorithmic decision making and participation for biodiversity conservation
  Dr Lily Xu (Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, University of Oxford)

Friday 28 February 2025

• 15:00 - Innovation and Decolonization: Decolonizing Cutting-Edge Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Advancements for Non-Western Contexts
  Linda Cheng (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 17:00 - Online Politics in India and the US: what went wrong?
  Professor Ralph Schroeder (Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 17:30 - Who rules the AI age? Big Tech, the US and Chinese states and the space left for digital sovereignty
  Dr Cecilia Rikap (University College London)

Tuesday 25 March 2025

• 10:00 - Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop
  Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford), Rutendo Chabikwa (Oxford Internet Institute), Dr Andrea Medrado (University of Exeter), Prof Cheryll Soriano (De La Salle University), Dr Jian Xiao (Zhejiang University), Dr Mohammad Amir Anwar (University of Edinburgh), Prof Tanja Bosch (University of Cape Town), Dr Fadi Salem (Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government), Dr Andrés Domínguez Hernández (The Alan Turing Institute), Prof César Ricardo Siqueira Bolaño, Prof Patricia Peña (University of Chile)

Thursday 1 May 2025

• 15:30 - The Reopen Movement: Protest and Radicalisation in the Digital Age
  Clara Martiny (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 15:30 - Studying online 'adoption advocacy': The digital representation, monetisation and transfer of children in the USA
  Dr Isabelle Higgins (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 15:30 - The Memeplex. The three regimes of online communication
  Prof Tommaso Venturini (University of Geneva)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 17:00 - 'LIFE IN OXFORD' Film Screening and Q&A
  Rawz, Reuel-Eli James, Samuel Mansell

Monday 9 June 2025

• 13:00 - OII Pride Lecture
  Dr Madeleine Steeds (University College Dublin), Dr Rebecca Swift (Getty Images)

Monday 16 June 2025

• 12:00 - Updating Purpose Limitation for AI – a normative approach to AI regulation
  Prof Hannah Ruschemeier (University of Hagen), Prof Rainer Mühlhoff (University of Osnabrück)