Oxford Internet Institute - News

Recruiting: Researcher

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:00:00 GMT

14 May 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

We are looking for a full-time Grade 7 Researcher to work with Dr Grant Blank and Dr Mark Graham to study and map the geography of digital inequality on the Internet. Closing: 12:00 BST on Thursday 13 June 2013.

Recruiting: Internet Research and Collaboration Officer

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:00:00 GMT

8 May 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

We are looking for a Grade 7 Internet Research and Collaboration Officer to identify academic research that supports the priorities of the newly established Connected Digital Economy Catapult (CDEc). Closing: midday 5 June 2013.

Privacy / Ethical Guidance for Mobile Measurement Tools

Thu, 02 May 2013 11:00:00 GMT

2 May 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

A new OII project is developing concrete guidance regarding privacy and data protection for researchers using Measurement Lab (M-Lab) internet measurement tools for mobile phones.

Communications Data Bill

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:00:00 GMT

22 April 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

The OII's Ian Brown is one of nine cyber-security experts who have warned the Prime Minister that the proposed Bill "will be expensive, will hinder innovation and will undermine the privacy of citizens" (The Times, 22 April).

Computational Social Science: Call for Abstracts (ECCS '13)

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:00:00 GMT

17 April 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

We are calling for abstracts for Computational Social Science: From Social Contagion to Collective Behaviour, a satellite meeting of ECCS'13 (Barcelona, 19 Sept 2013). Abstract deadline: 30 June 2013.

Select Committee on e-Crime

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:00:00 GMT

17 April 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

Ian Brown (OII) and Sadie Creese, both of the new Government Cyber Security Centre, have provided oral evidence for the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee on e-Crime (16 April 2013).

New Cyber Security Centre

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:00:00 GMT

9 April 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

The UK Government's new Global Centre for Cyber Security Capacity Building is to be based at the Oxford Martin School. OII Fellows Bill Dutton and Ian Brown will lead its work on security cultures and regulation.

Impact of Digitisation

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:00:00 GMT

3 April 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

New Bodleian-OII report on the impact and sustainability of the EEBO-TCP corpus; fully searchable XML-encoded transcriptions of the image sets of early printed books: Sustaining the EEBO-TCP Corpus in Transition (SSRN).

Funded Doctoral Studentships in Cyber Security Available

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:00:00 GMT

15 March 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

Eight funded doctoral studentships in cyber security are available at Oxford University's Cyber Security Centre; offered jointly with the OII. Deadline: 31 May for October 2013 entry.

Sociophysics of Wikipedia

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:00:00 GMT

13 March 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

Taha Yasseri (with J. Kertész) reviews recent endeavours to characterise and understand underlying mechanisms in Wikipedia, the paradigmatic example of collaborative value production. Published: J. Stat. Physics, March 2013.

The Big Data Revolution

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:00:00 GMT

7 March 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

In an interview, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, coauthor of "Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think", explores how big data will affect the economy, science, and society at large (30 min, WNYC).

Big Data: New Book Website

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:00:00 GMT

5 March 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

A website and blog has been launched for Viktor Mayer-Schönberger's book (with K.Cukier) "Big Data". The book has been reviewed by the Observer, and also by Wired: The Big-Data Interview: Making Sense of the New World Order.

Combating Cybercrime

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:00:00 GMT

5 March 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

Ian Brown and Joss Wright have worked on the Comprehensive Study on Cybercrime (4.6MB), a global report on crime prevention and criminal justice efforts to prevent and combat cybercrime (UN Office on Drugs and Crime).

Digital-Era Governance

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMT

25 February 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

New paper published by Helen Margetts and Patrick Dunleavy reviews the current status of NPM and DEG: The second wave of digital-era governance: a quasi-paradigm for government on the Web (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A).

Modelling Editing Wars

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMT

20 February 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

Taha Yasseri's new paper (with coauthors) in Physical Review Letters presents a mathematical model that 'describes' how online conflicts are resolved over articles that appear on Wikipedia. Read the paper.

Digital Humanities

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:00:00 GMT

15 February 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

Eric Meyer speaks on how technology is transforming dissemination and access to knowledge. Watch leveraging social science tools to understand the digital humanities (a webcast of the Univ. of Oxford's Cultural Heritage Programme).

Digital Engagement

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMT

12 February 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

Can new digital tools enable new practices to emerge in the theatre world? New report by Eric Meyer and Isis Hjorth: Digitally Scratching New Theatre: London's Battersea Arts Centre engaging via the web (PDF, 2MB).

Read the Latest OII News

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMT

12 February 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

Read our February newsletter for the latest research and policy work from the OII, including new projects on open data and civic engagement, and Internet geographies; and the latest publications, press and webcasts... Subscribe now!

The Power in Maps

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMT

7 February 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

In an in-depth article about how the Internet reinforces inequality in the real world (The Atlantic) Mark Graham discusses how we can think about and study the digital information about real-world places found in the "geoweb".

The Future of Identity

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:49:17 GMT

21 January 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

Read Ian Brown's paper for the UK Government's Foresight project on the future of identity: How will surveillance and privacy technologies impact on the psychological notions of identity? (PDF, 436Kb). Project: The Future of Identity.

Networked academia

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:00:00 GMT

17 January 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

Kathryn Eccles, historian turned digital humanist, extols the career benefits of staying open minded and switched on: Early career researchers making their own luck - with help from the internet (the Guardian, 15 Jan).

Teenagers and Technology

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT

15 January 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

A major in-depth study by Chris Davies and Rebecca Eynon examining how teenagers in the UK are using the internet and other mobile devices says the benefits of using such technologies far outweigh any perceived risks.

Mapping the Premier League

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:00:03 GMT

11 January 2013 Oxford Internet Institute

How might Twitter content illustrate an everyday passion for much of society: football? We collected geocoded tweets and their associated hashtags to explore Premier League team support on Twitter (interactive visualisation).

Sampling Twitter Networks

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:00:00 GMT

5 December 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

How do the data collected via the two main Twitter APIs compare to each other? New working paper from S. Gonzalez-Bailon, N. Wang, and others: Assessing the Bias in Communication Networks Sampled from Twitter (SSRN).

China's Great Firewall

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:00:00 GMT

3 December 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

What does a pet grooming service in Florida have to do with Chinese Internet censorship? Joss Wright's work on Chinese Internet censorship is covered by New Scientist: Florida pet spa mystery link to China's great firewall.

Digital Trails of the UK Floods

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:00:12 GMT

28 November 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Mark Graham and colleagues have combined meteorological and social media data to plot data shadows of the UK floods. How well do geolocated tweets correspond to recorded flooding events? (the Guardian, 28 November).

On Forgetting

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:00 GMT

26 November 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Logging our lives is becoming the norm, and having a comprehensive digital memory at our disposal is the default. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger explains why we need to let our online memories go (Washington Post, 23 November).

On Investigative Journalism

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:00:00 GMT

19 November 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

John Naughton highlights the work of recent OII MSc students Alexander Furnas and Devin Gaffney, which by "questioning the veracity of Mitt Romney's Twitter followers points the way forward in modern investigative journalism" (The Observer, 18 Nov)

OII Award Winners Raspberry Pi, in Conversation (Webcast)

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:00:05 GMT

16 November 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Pete Lomas of Raspberry Pi, recipients of an OII Internet and Society Award, discusses their affordable pocket-sized computer, which aims to engage children in the underlying technology that enriches the Internet.

Informational Privacy 3.0

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:00:00 GMT

14 November 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Ian Brown presents an analysis of the interface between Data Protection Regulation and Social Networking as part of the Oxford Privacy Information Law and Society "Mending the Tangled Web? Informational Privacy 3.0" Series.

Internet Governance Forum

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:00:00 GMT

12 November 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Should a country that suppresses online freedom be allowed to host a gathering devoted to discussing it? Ian Brown writes from the IGF2012, Azerbaijan: What's a nice UN Internet Governance Forum doing in a place like this?

OII Awards for Yochai Benkler, Jennifer Pahlka, Raspberry Pi

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:00:00 GMT

12 November 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

The 2012 winners of OII Awards for outstanding contributions to the Internet, Yochai Benkler, Jennifer Pahlka, and Raspberry Pi, were honoured at a recent awards dinner held at Balliol College.

Mapping Election Tweeting

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:00:00 GMT

9 November 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Did Twitter predict the outcome of the US election? Mark Graham's Election Tweet Map has been covered by: the Guardian's DataBlog, the Huffington Post, Businessweek (USA), and the University of Oxford's news page.

Internet Trust and Privacy

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:00:00 GMT

9 November 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Register now for the Workshop on Internet Trust, Reputation, Identity and Privacy (TRIP 2012) (4 Dec 2012, Lausanne). The workshop is taking place in conjunction with the Social Informatics (SocInfo) 2012 conference.

Big Data in the US Election

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:00:00 GMT

7 November 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Much has been made of the role of big data in this year's US elections, and it was a big contender in the battle to predict the results, says Linnet Taylor: but big data "is only as good as our ability to understand and manipulate it."

Mapping Central Government

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:00:00 GMT

29 October 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

The UK government digital landscape is set for some major changes with the introduction of the new gov.uk portal: our interactive map of links between Central Government websites is based on a 2011 crawl; how will it have changed when we recrawl later this year?

Mapping Open Data

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:00:00 GMT

29 October 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

"Given the high hopes surrounding open data development, the results were somewhat sobering": Viktor Mayer-Schönberger on Mapping the Ecology of Open Data Development, from Google's "Policy by the Numbers" blog.

Don't Mention "Cyberspace"...

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:00:00 GMT

26 October 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Mark Graham's paper on the unhelpful spatial metaphors used to describe the Internet: "Geography / Internet: Ethereal Alternate Dimensions of Cyberspace or Grounded Augmented Realities?" is accepted in The Geographical Journal.

Diffusion of Online Protest

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:00:00 GMT

11 October 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

A new paper from Sandra González-Bailón (and others) "Broadcasters and Hidden Influentials in Online Protest Diffusion" tracks 'Indignados' Twitter activity to explore the growth of online protest (forthcoming, Am. Behav. Sci.).

Political Advertising Online

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:00:00 GMT

11 October 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Sandra González-Bailón comments on political adverts after Barack Obama Facebook campaign sees 'likes' soar (BBC News). "The public sphere has been reconfigured", but politicians should beware intruding on private lives.

Automated Analysis of Social Media Networks (Webcast)

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:00:00 GMT

9 October 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Our online lives intertwine with others within a wide variety of social networks: in this webcast, Anatoliy Gruzd explores automated ways to discover and analyze networks from social media data.

Interactive visualisation tools: we need YOUR feedback!

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:00:00 GMT

12 September 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

We are developing a web-based wizard to allow easy creation of interactive visualisations for geospatial and network data by anyone: our demo visualisation is available for feedback!

'Big Data' Research at the Oxford Internet Institute

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:15:25 GMT

16 August 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Vast amounts of transactional data - our digital traces - are collected about us as we go about our lives online. Access to this 'Big Data' (for example from platforms like Twitter and Wikipedia) is now allowing social and political scientists to tackle longstanding problems that have hitherto been impossible to address, such as how political movements like the 'Arab Spring' and Occupy originate and spread. We can also use it to uncover wider social and geographical patterns: for example, who influences online representations of contested spaces in the Middle East. However, while big data can provide new and surprising insights into human behaviour and social structure, we need to know more about its potentials (and challenges) for social research and public policy. The data newly opened up may demand a re-examination of political science knowledge and theory; huge and complex datasets will also require the development of new methods, for example to extract reliable public opinion indicators (such as approval ratings) from the sentiments encoded in online communications. In short, Big Data presents powerful and often unanticipated opportunities for researchers: we can generate new, precise, and rapid insights into economic, social and political practices and processes. However, it also presents clear methodological, technical, theoretical, and ethical challenges and concerns. It is these challenges and opportunities that the OII is addressing.

Report: Young Lapsed Users

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:00:00 GMT

16 August 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Why are around 10% of young people outside the digital mainstream? What do they feel about it? Read the new report: Understanding Low and Discontinued Internet Use Amongst Young People in Britain [PDF, 900KB] (Eynon, Geniets).

Read the Latest OII News

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:00:00 GMT

15 August 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Read our August newsletter for the latest research and policy work from the OII. Coming soon: young lapsed users; child risk and harm; online relationships; examining the Middle East online; and more Big Data ... Subscribe now!

Mitt Romney on Twitter

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:00:00 GMT

9 August 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

OII MSc students Alexander Furnas and Devin Gaffney analysed Mitt Romney's recent spike in Twitter followers and found the Statistical Probability That Mitt Romney's New Twitter Followers Are Just Normal Users: 0% (The Atlantic).

Digital Images and Scholarship

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:05:40 GMT

7 August 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Eric Meyer's new paper: Interpreting Digital Images Beyond Just the Visual: Crossmodal Practices in Medieval Musicology has just been published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (co-authors: G.Eden, M.Jirotka).

Citizen Consultation Networks

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:05:40 GMT

7 August 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

How do public websites facilitate citizen participation and collaboration? Cristobal Cobo's paper: Networks for citizen consultation and citizen sourcing of expertise has just been published in Contemporary Social Science.

Special Issue: eHealth

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:05:40 GMT

7 August 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

The Policy and Internet Special Issue on eHealth has just been published, with papers addressing information search strategies, user trust in electronic health records, and national health portals. Guest Eds: Rik Crutzen, Gordon Gao.

New Media for Social Scientists

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:05:40 GMT

7 August 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

What methodological challenges should social scientists think about when analysing new media data? Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon discusses How to Slice Up Digital Data and Dig Up Relevant Trends (video, recorded 29 May 2012).

Project: Supporting Creation of Interactive Visualisations

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:05:40 GMT

7 August 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

The OII's new Interactive Visualizations project aims to support easy creation of interactive visualisations of geospatial and network data by anyone involved in research, teaching and information dissemination activities. Funder: JISC.

Digital Augmentation of Place

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:05:40 GMT

7 August 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Mark Graham's paper: Augmented Reality in Urban Places: Contested Content and the Duplicity of Code (co-authors: M.Zook, A.Boulton) has been accepted for publication in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

New Report: Digital Freedoms

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:05:40 GMT

7 August 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Ian Brown and Douwe Korff's report: Digital Freedoms in International Law examines the challenges facing tech companies and governments as they balance rights to expression and privacy with law enforcement and security.

Digital Freedoms (Webcast)

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:05:40 GMT

7 August 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Ian Brown speaks at the GNI's inaugural Learning Forum on his report Digital Freedoms in International Law (YouTube), co-authored with Douwe Korff. The report's recommendations are presented, focusing on practical steps.

Awards for OII Visualisations

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:05:40 GMT

7 August 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Mark Graham and Scott Hale have won University "OxTalent" awards for their data visualisations. OxTalent works to raise awareness, promote interaction, and stimulate the use of IT in teaching and learning across the University.

Geographies of Knowledge

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:05:40 GMT

7 August 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

The BBC covers OII maps of distribution of knowledge. Viktor Mayer-Schoenberg comments: "Each era has its own distinct geography. In the information age, it's not dependent on roads or waterways, but on bases of knowledge."

The Right to be Forgotten

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:05:40 GMT

7 August 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger addressed a recent hearing of the European Parliament into Data Protection for the Digital Age. Watch him on the right to be forgotten in the digital age (video).

Tweeting the Olympics

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:05:40 GMT

7 August 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

"There has been a change in how people perceive the way in which they can get close to a person" says the OII's Mark Graham: London 2012 Olympics: the first Twitter Games opens debate of athletes using social media (Telegraph).

University Outreach: Winners

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:28:21 GMT

25 April 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

We now have three winners, chosen from over 100 excellent submissions, for the competition we ran to find the most innovative outreach and public engagement activities carried out by European universities. Congratulations!

The Digital by Default Agenda

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:28:21 GMT

25 April 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Helen Margetts in Computer Weekly discusses the Government's digital by default agenda: "It will be a question of inspiring departments to see that they can't make the savings they need to unless they move to digital."

Government Digital Service

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:28:21 GMT

25 April 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Helen Margetts in Wired: "Government needs to be visible and at the centre of social and information networks. We need to make sure that interacting with the government is easy to do and lots of people want to interact with it online."

Mapping Wikipedia Edits

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:11:21 GMT

25 April 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Mark Graham finds that Israelis are far more active in creating / reproducing knowledge in one of the world's most used websites than their counterparts in the rest of the Middle East and North Africa.

Mapping World Knowledge

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:11:21 GMT

25 April 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

"Hope as we might, the Internet isn't a magic wand that makes the world more equal" says The Atlantic, in an article about the OII's new iBook: Geographies of the World's Knowledge, that aims to map and visualise world knowledge.

UK Digital Advisory Board

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:11:21 GMT

25 April 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

OII Director Helen Margetts is one of twelve expert members of the new Digital Advisory Board. Chaired by UK Digital Champion Martha Lane Fox, it will support the UK Government to deliver a revolution in online services.

New Project: Online Activism

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:36:46 GMT

27 March 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

A new OII project on Leaders and Followers in Online Activism is looking at how political and policy-oriented mobilizations (such as e-petitions or organized protests) start, and how they are sustained.

New Cybersecurity Centre

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:36:46 GMT

27 March 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Ian Brown (OII) is an Associate Director of Oxford's new Cyber Security Centre, established to bring together experts from a number of disciplines in Oxford and the wider world to address the cyber security challenges of the 21st century.

Demonstrating the Value of the UK Web Domain Dataset for Social Science Research

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:36:46 GMT

27 March 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

The potential of web archives for link analysis research has been well documented, but this potential has yet to be realised and demonstrated in good research. The OII project "Big Data: Demonstrating the Value of the UK Web Domain Dataset for Social Science Research" aims to increase visibility, accessibility, and ease-of-use of the JISC UK Web Domain Dataset, a 30 terabyte web archive of the .uk country-code top level domain (ccTLD) collected from 1996 to 2010. The project will extract link graphs from the data, assess the feasibility and impact of using the .uk ccTLD as a boundary for UK web presence, and conduct and disseminate high-quality social science research examples using the collection. It will also trial tools and procedures to make the data more easily accessible including tools for remote access and assessing the feasibility of developing code to allow the easy import of link data from the collection into NodeXL or other network data analysis software packages to allow for easy access, visualisation, and analysis of subsets of the corpus. The researchers are Professor Helen Margetts (PI), Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon (Co-I), Dr Eric T. Meyer (Co-I), Scott A. Hale, and Tom Nicholls. The project is supported by JISC.

Oxford's first interactive iBook of research

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:46:46 GMT

23 March 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Our team at the OII has employed the most innovative technology to create a ground-breaking interactive iBook of research data using moving graphics and zoom functions. This beautiful book is freely available from Apple's iBookstore.

Language and the Internet

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMT

6 March 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Han Teng Liao's new working paper argues that language support in digital networked environments is fundamental for any person or a group of people to have a voice and be heard in this new digital networked environment.

Open Education

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMT

6 March 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Latin American Higher Education organisations are invited to join the EC-supported "OportUnidad" network, an action-research project aiming to promote open educational practices in the Latin American region.

Privacy on the Internet

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:00:05 GMT

5 March 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Joss Wright discusses online privacy in the Observer: "we do not yet fully understand the power of the data we have shared (...) by unwittingly giving this information to Google, Facebook and others we are shaping the future of our society in ways we cannot predict."

Chinese Wikipedia Research

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT

28 February 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Han Teng Liao provides a list of PhD and Master's theses that study Chinese Wikipedia or other Chinese-language User-generated Encyclopedias.

Cross-Language Linking

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT

28 February 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Scott Hale's papers on cross-language blog linking following the 2010 Haitian earthquake and sharing of off-site links in Twitter and Wikipedia following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Tōhoku, Japan, are now available.

Open Education Week

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT

22 February 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

As part of Open Education Week we will be discussing our new project on Open Education Resources in HE institutions (Latin America and Europe): join the OportUnidad open webinar to find out more (6 March 2012: 16.00-17.00 GMT).

Using Network Theory in Social Psychology

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT

16 February 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Could network theory be co-opted by social psychology to make experiments easier and data more mathematical? Neil Basu reports on an attempt to apply network analysis to 'co-ruminants'.

Geographies of Information

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT

16 February 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Mark Graham's talk schedule at the New York AAG conference covers religious cyberscapes, development geography, and Iron Sheep: an open session for lightning mapping of Volunteered Geographic Information "in the wild".

Technology in the Humanities

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:00:05 GMT

16 February 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Monica Bulger and Eric Meyer's paper showing that humanities researchers' use of and attitudes toward digital technologies are influenced by existing disciplinary habits is now published in Arts and Humanities in Higher Education.

Internet Use in Britain

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:00:05 GMT

16 February 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Grant Blank looks at OxIS survey data on use and attitudes to the Internet in Britain to explore the "Next Generation Users": the 44% of British people who now access the Internet through multiple devices. (It isn't just young people.)

Child Protection / Online Risk

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT

15 February 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

A new OII project on child protection is undertaking a critical synthesis of the academic literature and the social and medical science evidence to date of the risks and opportunities of online activity for children and young people.

New OII Project on Twitter

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT

15 February 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

A new OII project is using Twitter to map and measure online cultural diffusion by developing and employing rigorous methods to map and measure how (and where) conversations on Twitter are taking place over time and space.

Catching up with SDP Alumni

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT

15 February 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

We talk to Yana Breindl (SDP alumnus and current OII Visitor) about the OII's Summer Doctoral Programme. Her advice to SDP applicants: "Be honest about your research. And don't be shy in articulating your expectations."

Ten Years of the OII's Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP)

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT

8 February 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

"a bunch of great students doing great research having a fun time with some world-leading academics" - Vicki Nash looks back on ten years of the OII's Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP).

New OII Project on Big Data

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT

8 February 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

A new OII project using big data for social science research aims to increase visibility, accessibility, and ease-of-use of the JISC UK Web Domain Dataset, a 30 terabyte web archive of the .uk country-code top level domain (ccTLD).

Globalization vs Tradition?

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT

1 February 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Mark Graham's paper: Perish or Globalise, on network integration and the reproduction and replacement of weaving traditions in the Thai silk industry, has just been published in ACME: Journal of Critical Geographies.

Borderlands (Digital Ones...)

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT

1 February 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Laura Mann reflects on borderlands as centres in their own right, where new forms of governance can take shape: how does this help our understanding of digital divides, as ICT penetration in East Africa creates new intermediaries?

Wikipedia Workshop: Amman

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT

1 February 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

A forthcoming workshop on Middle Eastern Participation and Presence in Wikipedia (Amman, 11-12 April) will discuss the most significant barriers to participation in Wikipedia in the Middle East and North Africa.

Relearning to Forget

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

31 January 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

The recent overhaul of Europe's data-protection rules "would make people pause to think about whether it makes sense for data to remain in the handlers' hands," says Viktor Mayer-Schönberger in The Economist (27 January 2012).

Information Practices

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

30 January 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Physorg.com reports on the recent OII-authored RIN report on information practices which identifies the range of contemporary challenges facing physical science researchers in a fast-evolving information landscape.

PASC Report: Government / IT

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

27 January 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

The Commons Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) publishes its report on Government and IT that insists Government has still to address the challenges of "intelligent" procurement. Helen Margetts was an expert witness.

Now it's back to ACTA...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

27 January 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

"Interestingly, the protest wave carries on: the target has shifted from the US to the EU as 22 member states signed the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) today": Yana Breindl on what makes a succesful campaign.

Scientists: Conservatives?

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

26 January 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

"although physical scientists have led the way in using computers to analyse data, they are still fairly conservative when it comes to adopting new communications technologies": Recent OII work is covered by Physics World.

The Right to be Forgotten

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:00:00 GMT

25 January 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

The EU plans sweeping changes to its dated data protection law, including the "right to be forgotten": Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, author of "Delete", comments: New EU data protection rules talk tough (Deutsche Welle).

Free Speech Principles

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

25 January 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Ian Brown talks to Prof. Timothy Garton Ash about Internet neutrality, freedom of expression, regulation, censorship and security as part of the Free Speech Debate project: Can the world agree on free speech principles? (YouTube).

Physical Scientists at Work

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

25 January 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

How do physical scientists use online information, resources, and services to support their research? Eric Meyer and Monica Bulger are authors on RIN's new report on Information Practices in the Physical Sciences (SSRN).

The Art of Forgetting

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

24 January 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

"As a society, argues internet scholar Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, we're getting worse at forgetting, thanks to the web: Amazon, Google and Facebook remember everything you use them for, for ever." (The Guardian, 20 January)

SOPA / PIPA

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:00:00 GMT

23 January 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

"stakeholders need to understand that freedom of expression and copyright cannot be pursued as single issues" .. Bill Dutton talks to BBC News about the events of last week: Anti-piracy efforts divide web users (20 January).

Megaupload Shutdown

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:08:06 GMT

20 January 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Joss Wright talks to the BBC as hackers target the US government and copyright organisations following the shutdown of the Megaupload file-sharing website. Are their actions counter-productive?

Wikipedia Blackout

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:03:57 GMT

18 January 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

"Wikipedia has blacked out its English-language site for 24 hours. So how will its regular readers get information?" Mark Graham discusses Wikipedia with the BBC: Without Wikipedia, where can you get your facts? (BBC News, 18 Jan).

Digital Tools / Learning

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:00:00 GMT

16 January 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Monica Bulger discusses teaching and learning with digital tools in the humanities and also her new book chapter: "Interdisciplinary Knowledge Work: Digital Textual Analysis Tools and Their Collaboration Affordances".

Richard Wilson on Hold

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

16 January 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Tonight, Joss Wright talks to Richard Wilson about how we are tracked by advertisers who build up profiles so as to target online personalized adverts at us most effectively: Richard Wilson on Hold (Channel 4, Mon 16 Jan, 8pm).

Geographies of Knowledge

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

9 January 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

User-generated Internet content (and online knowledge) is heavily weighted towards the global north; Mark Graham asks: In a networked world, why is the geography of knowledge still uneven? (The Guardian).

Mapping Chinese Censorship

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

5 January 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

See Joss Wright's recent presentation of his work on fine-grained mapping of censorship in China, which includes a couple of maps with early analysis of DNS manipulation in Chinese cities.

Mapping Knowledge: Africa

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

5 January 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

Africa is characterised by some of the most interesting patterns in quality of Wikipedia articles: vast areas seem to have no available information; other regional patterns are difficult to explain.

30 min without an iPhone

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

4 January 2012 Oxford Internet Institute

"Even with something as beautiful as a sunset, forgetting is really important": the New York Times' "Bits" blog quotes from Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger's book "Delete" on our need to sometimes enjoy/forget the view without an iPhone.

Social Media and Protest

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:00:00 GMT

16 December 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon's paper "The Dynamics of Protest Recruitment through an Online Network" has been published in Scientific Reports. It analyses Twitter activity data during mass protests in Spain in May 2011.

Virtual Open Day: Webcast

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMT

14 December 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

A webcast is now available of our last (award winning!) OII Virtual Open Day. Our faculty and students give advice on applying to study at the OII, and answer questions from the Tweeting public.

Privacy on the Internet

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

30 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Ian Brown has given evidence to Parliament's Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions on the difficulties in stopping a specific piece of information appearing anywhere on the Internet.

The Stop Online Piracy Act

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:00:05 GMT

25 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger comments in the Economist on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), now before America's Congress. The bill aims to cut off Americans' access to foreign pirate websites by squeezing intermediaries.

The Internet in Poland

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

23 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Read Bill Dutton's introduction to the 2011 Poland report of the World Internet Project (WIP). "Many Poles have yet to make up their minds on whether or not the Internet will improve their lives."

Digital Literacy (TED Talk)

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

23 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Cristobal Cobo's TED talk analyses how many educational institutions have not been engaged enough in development of the multi-literacies we need to interact in today's information society.

Hipsters vs Tea Party

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

23 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Are hipsters or Tea Party supporters more prominent on the Internet? Mark Graham demonstrates some of the significant methodological limitations of using Google keywords to find out...

Identity and the Internet

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

22 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger talks to the Financial Times about anonymity and the enforcement of 'real names' policies: "It's built on the false analogy that in the real world you only have one identity."

Digital Memory / Delete

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:00:00 GMT

16 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger talks to the Irish Times about memory and the auto-deletion of our personal information: "I'm more convinced than ever that forgetting is the needed solution."

Wikipedia, Mapped!

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

16 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

The Guardian's Datablog features OII research on Wikipedia's geographical coverage in different languages - revealing some strange (and striking) patterns in who writes about where.

Life-logging / Personal Data

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

16 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Ian Brown is an author of the EU's cyber security agency ENISA's report on the future impact of life-logging and online personal data: Risks and benefits of emerging life-logging technologies.

SDP2012: Apply Now!

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

16 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Our very successful Summer Doctoral Programme aims to support students' doctoral thesis research through an intense fortnight of study with leading academics (deadline: 23 Feb 2012).

Webcast: Internet Freedom and Human Rights: "EU vs US"

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

15 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Ian Brown gives a seminar in George Washington Law School's series on Internet Freedom and Human Rights: "Internet freedom: EU v US" (webcast).

Margetts Keynote: London Conference on Cyberspace

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

15 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Read Professor Helen Margetts' remarks at the London Cyberspace Conference on the social benefits of the Internet and how they might be maximized.

Widening the Oxford MBA

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:00:00 GMT

14 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

The Financial Times covers the Oxford 1+1 Programme, which will enable students to study an Oxford specialist master's degree and an MBA in 2 years (subject to final University approval).

The Oxford 1+1 Programme

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:00:00 GMT

14 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

The Oxford 1+1 Programme will allow students to combine our MSc in Social Science of the Internet with the Oxford MBA (apply from Dec 2011, subject to final approval by the University).

Mr Vassilyev's 69 children

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:00:00 GMT

14 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Mark Graham reports on the Wikisym 2011 conference and the discussion (and papers) on gender imbalances in Wikipedia: "Feodor Vassilyev and Wikipedia's Gender Imbalances".

Mapping Wikipedia Globally

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:00:00 GMT

14 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

What does the world look like in English, compared with Arabic or Hebrew? Mark Graham has been Mapping Wikipedia Globally, revealing what the world looks different depending on your language.

Mapping Internet Censorship

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

9 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Joss Wright and Ian Brown's paper on Fine-Grained Censorship Mapping - Information Sources, Legality and Ethics considers the ethical issues surrounding research on Internet censorship.

Where / what is 'Cyberspace'?

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

7 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Mark Graham on the recent London Cyberspace Conference: "The thing that struck me the most was the constant use of the word 'cyberspace'. People just wouldn't stop saying it."

Visualising Language Online

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

7 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Scott Hale shares a Collection of Graphics on Language and the Internet, including cross-language linking, the top languages on the Internet, and the geography of user generated content.

Oxford University Teaching Awards for OII Faculty

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

5 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Greg Taylor, Bernie Hogan and Victoria Nash are to receive teaching awards from the University of Oxford in recognition of their excellent contributions to the OII's teaching over the past year.

Potentials of the Internet for International Development

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

2 November 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

See Mark Graham's Presentation for the London Conference on Cyberspace, from the session on Cyberspace and International Development.

Social Media Research

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:00:00 GMT

31 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

In "60 seconds with ... Bernie Hogan" (Oxford Today) he talks about social media and networking, and his research on the changing norms and etiquette of online relationships and dating.

East African Broadband

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:00:00 GMT

31 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Mark Graham talks about the promises, expectations and economic impacts of new submarine fibre-optic cables on the East African region: "Fibre-optic hopes for East Africa" (ESRC Feature).

OII Speakers at the London Conference on Cyberspace

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:00:00 GMT

31 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Helen Margetts is a keynote speaker at the London Conference on Cyberspace (session on social benefits), organised by the FCO. Mark Graham also speaks.

Palestinian Web / Mobility

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT

31 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Miriyam Aouragh's article on virtual mobility: Confined Offline - Traversing Online: Palestinian mobility through the prism of the Internet has been published in Mobilities 6 (3) 375-397.

Webcast: Six Provocations for Big Data - boyd and Crawford

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT

25 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

"The era of Big Data has begun" - danah boyd and Kate Crawford discuss privacy and publicity in the context of big data (iCS-OII 2011 Conference keynote).

Oxford Internet Survey 2011: Report Launch Highlights

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT

24 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Read the highlights from the OxIS 2011 Report launch - topline findings from almost a decade's worth of survey data on Internet use and attitudes in Britain.

Wikipedia Language Editions

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT

19 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Scott Hale puts his mapping skills to work to uncover patterns in geotagged articles in different language editions of Wikipedia, and thinks about the specific benefits of multilingual contributors.

Deep Packet Inspection

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT

19 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Alissa Cooper's chapter: Doing the DPI Dance: Assessing the Privacy Impact of Deep Packet Inspection has just been published in "Privacy in America: Interdisciplinary Perspectives".

Artificial Currency: The Bitcoin

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT

19 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

The "bitcoin" focuses Yorick Wilks' mind on issues around the financial industry, trust in value, and the nature of currency itself: If we lose trust in money, is internet currency a plausible alternative?

Net Neutrality Discourses

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT

19 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Alissa Cooper's article: Net Neutrality Discourses: Comparing Advocacy and Regulatory Arguments in the US and the UK is forthcoming in The Information Society 27 (5) (co-authored A.Powell).

Paper Call: Online Collective Action and Policy Change

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT

19 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Policy and Internet is calling for papers for a forthcoming Special Issue on Online Collective Action and Policy Change (deadline 31 March 2012).

New OxIS Report Released: The Internet in Britain 2011

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:09:35 GMT

17 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

New data on British Internet access, attitudes and use is released: "Next Generation Users: The Internet in Britain 2011" [PDF, 3MB]. See the OxIS website for more.

Call: Urban Food Futures

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT

12 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

We are calling for abstracts for the OII-QUT symposium "Urban Food Futures: ICTs and Opportunities" on 14 December 2011. Deadline: 28 October 2011. A journal special issue is planned.

Tribute to Steve Jobs

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:11:10 GMT

7 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

"He really revolutionised the way we communicate with each other around the world: I can think of few people who have had more impact": Bill Dutton reflects on Steve Jobs (video).

Working With Big Data

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:00:00 GMT

6 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

The Wall Street Journal explores the use of "big data" made available by social media such as Twitter, quoting from dana boyd's 2011 iCS-OII conference keynote (webcast coming soon).

The Arab Spring / Mobilization

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:00:00 GMT

6 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Miriam Aouragh's new paper on the Arab Spring: The Egyptian Experience: Sense and Nonsense of the Internet Revolution, has been published in the International Journal of Communication.

Project: Lapsed Internet Users

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT

6 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

About 10% of British 17-19 year olds are lapsed Internet users. Our new project on lapsed use of the Internet amongst young people in the UK aims to inform the UK's digital inclusion strategy.

The Flickr Map of the World

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:00:00 GMT

6 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Who shares their images with the world? The Guardian's Datablog highlights Mark Graham's visualisation of Flickr use worldwide, showing world blips in population, wealth, and connectivity.

Working Papers: Neutrality

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:00:00 GMT

5 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Marcelo Thompson has two new working papers: The Neutralization of Harmony (forthcoming JSTL), and In Search of Alterity: On Google, Neutrality, and Otherness.

Webcast: OII 10th Anniversary

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:00:00 GMT

5 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

A distinguished panel reflects on the defining developments of the Internet over the past ten years in our 10th anniversary plenary session: "A Decade in Internet Time" (rec. 22 Sept 2011).

Big Data / Data Deluge

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:00:00 GMT

5 October 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

"The world of 'big data' is on fire", says The Economist, reporting on the recent OII-hosted Oxford Digital Data Dialogue (OD3): Big Data: Where the geeks go [The Economist, 23 Sept 2011].

MSc Thesis Prize

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:00:00 GMT

29 September 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Ulrike Rauer has received the 2011 OII MSc Thesis Prize for her thesis on patient trust in Internet-based health records. The MSc application process has now opened for 2012/2013 entry.

Collective Action: Draft Paper

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:00:00 GMT

29 September 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Feedback is welcomed on a new draft paper: Applying Social Influence to Collective Action: Heterogeneous Personality Effects (H.Margetts, P.John, S.Reissfelder, S.Hale).

Information Geographies

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:00:00 GMT

29 September 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Details are now available for Mark Graham and Matt Zook's session on Information Geographies: Online Power, Representation and Voice (AAG 2012)

Geolocating the Zombies

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:00:00 GMT

26 September 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

The Guardian's Data Blog has picked up Mark Graham's data analysis of Google Maps: The Zombie map of the world [The Guardian, 23 Sept 2011].

Prof. Helen Margetts Appointed as New Director of the OII

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:00:00 GMT

19 September 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

We are pleased to announce that Helen Margetts will take over as the New Director of the OII from 1 October 2011. She succeeds William Dutton.

Internet Censorship

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:00:00 GMT

19 September 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

"In my time in China, I ran simple filtering tests on all the Internet connections to which I had access" Joss Wright shares his holiday Experiences of Chinese Internet Censorship.

Visualising Data

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:04:43 GMT

15 September 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

See visualisations of data on literacy, the world media, academic publishing, and the distribution of knowledge and content in Flickr, Wikipedia and Google.

Funding / Academic Integrity

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:00:00 GMT

9 August 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

"At what point do these decreases in government funding threaten the fabric of the university?" Monica Bulger asks: Will de-funding unravel the academic integrity of universities?

Government and IT: "A Recipe for Rip-Offs", finds PAC

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:00:00 GMT

28 July 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

The Public Adminstration Committee's report: Government and IT- "A Recipe For Rip-Offs" draws on evidence given by Helen Margetts and Ian Brown.

Effective Presentations

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:00:05 GMT

18 July 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Why does is often feel that presentations focus on information transfer rather than audience connection? Monica Bulger discusses The Human Element of Academic Presentations (SDP2011).

Computer use in schools

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:00:00 GMT

11 July 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Does increased computer use in class decrease digital reading performance? Cristobal Cobo discusses the puzzling results of the PISA test in "digital reading performance".

Digital Footprints: New Paper

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:00:00 GMT

7 July 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

What new challenges are raised by the generation and handling of personal data? New paper: Following Society's Digital Footprints: Critical Policy Issues for the Digital Economy (PDF, 900kb)

East African Broadband

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:00:00 GMT

7 July 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

We have received funding from DFID and the ESRC to study Development and Broadband Internet Access in East Africa, focusing on the economic impact of broadband roll-out in the region.

Delete / Digital Remembering

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:00:00 GMT

1 July 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Does the digital age force us to remember too much? Viktor Mayer-Schönberger discusses Why we must remember to delete - and forget - in the digital age (The Guardian).

New eDemocracy Reports

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:00:00 GMT

16 June 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

mySociety publishes Tobias Escher's reports on two of the most successful eDemocracy projects worldwide: Evaluation of TheyWorkForYou.com and WriteToThem.com.

Network Analysis Workshop

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:00:00 GMT

10 June 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Bernie Hogan's NodeXL / Network Workshop at the UK Social Networks Association conference introduces tools for social network capture, analysis and visualisation (6 July 2011).

Analysing the media response to research on online dating

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:00:00 GMT

9 June 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Bernie Hogan analyses the media response to our online dating research: what particular findings have journalists been most interested in covering?

Mobile / Internet Industries

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:00:00 GMT

8 June 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

"this cultural split between the closed mobile phone and the open Internet industries is a major obstacle to real convergence" Bill Dutton: Converging Technologies, Divergent Cultures.

Disconnect Yourself...

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:00:00 GMT

8 June 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

"the idea of addiction to technologies like the Internet, and disconnecting yourself from these devices, is not new" Bill Dutton: Addicted to the Internet?

Online Social Networks: Student Showcase

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:00:00 GMT

6 June 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

OII course tutor Bernie Hogan has compiled a showcase of network graphs created for the OII Network course 2011.

Cybercrime: Special Issue

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:00:00 GMT

1 June 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Policy and Internet's Special Issue on Cybercrime has just been published, with papers on child exploitation networks, national cybersecurity, data disclosure, Warez groups, and more.

Freedom of Expression

Tue, 31 May 2011 15:00:05 GMT

31 May 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

New OII-authored UNESCO report: Freedom of connection, freedom of expression: the changing legal and regulatory ecology shaping the Internet (Dutton, Dopatka, Law, Nash).

Cyberscapes / Visualisation

Tue, 31 May 2011 15:00:05 GMT

31 May 2011 Oxford Internet Institute

Mark Graham's New publication - Visualizing Global Cyberscapes: Mapping User Generated Placemarks has just been published in the Journal of Urban Technology.

Cybersecurity / ENISA Reform

Thu, 26 May 2011 15:00:00 GMT