New leadership at the Oxford Internet Institute
27 October 2025
The OII is pleased to announce Dr Scott A. Hale appointed as its next Director, and Dr Kathryn Eccles as Deputy Director.
Latest news
Lockdown lessons on balance and belonging at work
1 October 2025
OII doctoral researcher Lily Rodel explores what lockdown revealed about how we could all achieve the perfect work-life balance.
Oxford Internet Institute relocates to the new Schwarzman Centre
30 September 2025
The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) has moved to its new home in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
Next events
03
Nov
Oxford Digital Ethnography Group Seminar Series
For every species, a language: AI, interspecies communication, and the democratization of language to nonhuman worlds
15:30 -17:00, Zoom
With Professor Courtney HandmanThis talk will explore the argument that every species has a 'language' of its own that can be understood with machine learning, and emphasize the ways in which language is becoming polymorphous in its definitions.
Four graduate degrees
Academic spotlight
Find out more about research by OII academics
Professor Andrew Przybylski
Professor of Human Behaviour and Technology
Professor Przybylski is a psychologist who studies how online social media and video games platforms influence users’ mental health. His research focuses on how data from these platforms can inform regulation, policymaking, and expert advice.
Professor Mark Graham
Professor of Internet Geography
Mark Graham is an economic geographer. His research focuses on digital labour, the gig economy, and digital inequalities. He is the author, most recently, of Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
Dr Ekaterina Hertog
Associate Professor in AI and Society
Ekaterina Hertog is an Associate Professor of AI and Society at Oxford Internet Institute and Institute for Ethics in AI. She studies how the rising digitalisation is reshaping private lives across the world.
Latest projects
Conversations between governments and citizens in a digital society
This project seeks to understand how citizens listen and speak to public institutions, and how alternative AI-based models and framing might encourage democratic communication.
The Promise of AI in Childcare
With mobile devices ubiquitous among young people, it is not surprising that parents are increasingly turning to technology for help in childcare. This project examines monitoring technologies and how parents use them as part of child supervision.
Understanding the Causes of the Reverse Personal Computing Revolution
The shift to cloud represents a reversal of the 1980s personal computing revolution: computation is moving from personal devices back into large, centralized facilities. This project seeks to understand the economic drivers of this reversal.
Latest report
By Andres Raieste, Andri Rebane, Madis Tapupere, Keegan McBride
In a world increasingly defined by crises—from pandemics and climate disasters to escalating wars—governments that fail to build digital resilience risk crumbling under pressure.
Press coverage
1 in 4 European workplaces make decisions with algorithms and AI that impact employee working life
Euronews, 27 October 2025
One in four workplaces in Europe is making decisions using algorithms or AI that will impact the working life of their employees. The OII's Dr Alessio Bertolini argues the need for more legislation to protect workers' rights.
Is social media good or bad for us?
BBC World Service, 25 October 2025
Professor Helen Margetts speaks to the BBC World Service 'Pick of the World' programme about the spread of misinformation, the power of social media and their impact on democracy.
Breaking down the Burification of the US economy
CNN, 22 October 2025
New interview with the OII's Prof. Carl Frey speaking to CNN's Quest Means Business programme about the K-shaped economy. Credit: CNNI.
Latest podcast
The science behind successful start-ups
Fabian Braesemann and Paul McCarthy discuss the impact of founder personalities on startup success, how a predictive model outperforms industry standards to predict company success, and what factors can help us predict which startups will succeed.
