Gina Neff
Professor @oiioxford + @sociologyoxford. Co-author of Self-Tracking which one reviewer helpfully called "easily the best book I’ve come across on the subject."
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: OII's Wednesday Webinar Week 4 'Are We Really Living in an Infodemic? Deconstructing a Buzzword'. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Dr Chico Camargo is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science, and Felix M. Simon is a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar student on the DPhil in Information, Communication & the Social Sciences at the OII. Together, they will describe the main...
LIVESTREAM EVENT | How to Talk to Robots - A Girl’s Guide To A Future Dominated by AI
It’s time to demystify the daunting, male-dominated world of artificial Intelligence. Tech entrepreneur Tabitha Goldstaub is here to make sure AI works for us – not us for it.
Coronavirus: People told to self-isolate stopped from claiming £500 grant by 'flaw in contract tracing app'
A button to allow those to claim the cash was never added to the app, sources have told Sky News.
The Dirty Secret About Hackathons
Almost nothing lasting is ever created at one.
OII’s Wednesday Webinar Week 2 ‘Artificial Intelligence & Social Justice’ Professor Meredith Broussard
The Oxford Internet Institute welcomes Meredith Broussard, Associate Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University. She is a data journalist and author of “Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the...
Data from the COVID-19 testing service
The figures on this page show the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases each week from Monday 5 October 2020. They also include data from our Pooled (asymptomatic) Screening programme. We have
Gina Neff
Last week Cambridge University identified 34 asymptomatic covid cases among students through pooled testing.
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Gina Neff
@bodleianlibs Finishing magnificent The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Happy Black History Month).
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Coronavirus: Police granted access to details of people told to self-isolate by Test and Trace
The Department of Health and Social Care has said information will be shared with police on a 'case-by-case' basis.
Take-up of NHS contact-tracing app could be only 10%
Pilot studies show low download rate as app launches in England and Wales
Gina Neff
Story idea: take up of NHS app. 10% 50% 80%? The network effects of the app matter for success. What is the adoption rate currently and what are the current projections?
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Bus drivers told to switch off mobile phone test and trace app
Bus drivers in Oxford are being urged to switch off the coronavirus test and trace app on their phones to avoid “false alarms” when they are…
Gina Neff
Nothing to see here, folks. Just another employer telling their employees that the Test and Trace system fails their workplace.
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Contact-tracing data harvested from pubs and restaurants being sold on
Companies collecting data for pubs and restaurants to help them fulfil their contact-tracing duties are harvesting confidential customer information to sell.Legal experts have warned of a “privacy
Vijf vragen over de Nederlandse corona-app
Nederlanders kunnen voortaan een speciale app downloaden om de verspreiding van het coronavirus te helpen beperken. We zetten vijf veelgehoorde vragen over die app op een rij.
"Data work: the hidden talent and secret logic fuelling artificial…
Gina calls these tasks data work , and her team studied how data work is changing in Danish & US hospitals (Moller, Bossen, Pine, Nielsen and Neff, forthcoming ACM Interactions ). In this talk Professor Gina Neff, Oxford Internet Institute and...
Nearly 16,000 virus cases missed in daily figures
Public Health England says the unreported cases were added to Saturday's and Sunday's statistics, meaning they were "artificially high".
Covid-19: What’s going wrong with testing in the UK?
Is it the increase in demand, “ineligible” applicants, or a lack of laboratory capacity hampering coronavirus testing? Jacqui Wise examines the key questions around the current lack of access to tests in the community
The UK’s community testing...
Self-Sovereignty for Refugees? The Contested Horizons of Digital Identity
(2020). Self-Sovereignty for Refugees? The Contested Horizons of Digital Identity. Geopolitics. Ahead of Print.
They Needed a Place to Marry. Suddenly Their Ship Came In.
Max Krauss and Emily Young wed aboard the U.S.S. Baylander, which happened to be docked outside his parents’ Harlem home at just the right time.