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Celebrating one year of Oxford Intersections
Oxford Intersections is our online interdisciplinary research resource, inviting academics and global experts to investigate the world’s most urgent and challenging subjects from all angles.
As we mark one year since the programme launched, we reflect on the over 300 articles we’ve published since then, covering over 250 subject areas from authors all over the world.
Intersections are organized by topic, inviting ideas from different disciplines to clash, complement, and counterpoint, prompting new viewpoints and questions. Explore some of the original content published so far in our first four topics:
AI in Society
Philipp Hacker, General Editor of AI in Society, and Chair for Law and Ethics of the Digital Society at European University Viadrina:
“AI in Society investigates AI’s pervasive influence on our economic, legal, personal, and cultural spheres. It takes a unique format, in which contributors from various disciplines collaborate to chart both the promises and societal challenges of AI, with particular attention to generative AI models and their global impact. From my perspective as its General Editor, AI in Society aims to serve as a reliable reference point for ongoing debates on how to align technological innovation with fundamental rights and societal values.”
Read Philipp’s full article
Read some of the published research
Borders
Alexander Diener, Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas, and Joshua Hagen, Dean of the College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, General Editors of Borders:
“We hope readers will engage Oxford Intersections: Borders to encounter new perspectives on a topics that is elemental to human experience and foundational to the form and function of power.”
Read some of the published research
Beyond Oral Tradition: Digitalizing Indigenous Environmental Knowledge for Climate Resilience in Africa
Dorcas Stella Shumba
Reconfiguring Borders: The Role of Conspiracy Theories in Shaping Knowledge and Information Flows in Online Discourse
Massimiliano Demata
Concepts from the Margins: Reimagining Governance and Belonging Through Border Children’s Lived Experiences
Ana Isabel Sandoval
Racism by Context
Meena Dhanda, General Editor of Racism by Context and Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Politics at the University of Wolverhampton:
“Combatting racism requires an unflinchingly analytical understanding of the roots, the history, the manifestation, the mechanisms, the proliferation, and the entanglement of its many forms within institutions and practices across all spheres of human interaction. Racism by Context has undertaken this enormous challenge by bringing into conversation cutting-edge research from different global locations.”
Read some of the published research
Hair Discrimination and the Racialization of Black Young People’s Bodies: A Critical Analysis of Racism in U.K. School Settings
Siobhan O’Neill, Karis Campion, Sweta Rajan-Rankin
Soul Circuitry: Chronicles of Cyborgian Intelligence in Afrofuturism
Nettrice Gaskins
‘You are Nathan F*cking Shelley!’: Orientalism, White Saviourism, and the Radicalization of Nate in Ted Lasso
Adam Ehsan Ali, Matt Ventresca
Social Media in Society and Culture
Laeeq Khan, General Editor of Social Media in Society and Culture and Associate Professor in the School of Media Arts & Studies at Ohio University:
“Addressing today’s most pressing challenges requires a new approach to thinking. An interdisciplinary transformative approach can advance knowledge by exploiting and harmonizing the strengths of various disciplines within a unified framework. This approach deepens our collective understanding by bringing together the disparate and sometimes contradictory perspectives of many disciplines, all of which offer valuable insights.”
Read some of the published research
Sharenting on Instagram: A Study of Emotional Well-Being and Child Safety
P V Chandana, Velayutham Chandrasekharan, Tamilselvi Natarajan
Gaming on Social Media: An X- and YouTube-Driven Social Network Analysis of Minecraft Conversations
Mohd Ali Samsudin, Goh Kok Ming
Functional Aspects of Ritual in Digital Religion
Antonio Salvati
What’s coming next
In addition to continually developing our published topics, in the next year we’ll be launched intersections for Environmental Change and Human Experience, Gender Justice, Climate Adaptation, and Cultures of Waste, with many more to come in the following years.
Discover the full collection here.
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