Alumni
These are the past OII Doctoral and Masters students. Please check our teaching page if you would like to apply to be a student at the Oxford Internet Institute.
DPhil
DPhil Alumnus
Fadhila Mazanderani was a DPhil candidate at the OII where her work focused on the health information seeking practices of people living with HIV / Aids and the relationship between access to information, patient empowerment and expertise.
DPhil Alumnus
Max Loubser is a DPhil student at the OII and Magdalen College. His thesis research is on governance in peer production projects with a focus on Wikipedia.
DPhil Alumnus
Christine Madsen is a librarian and academic whose research aims to re-centre libraries at the heart of all the disciplines, and re-focus the work of librarians on creating a space for the transformation of information into knowledge.
DPhil Alumnus
Wolf Richter is researching the potential role of Social Entrepreneurship in addressing the market failure in digital goods. His research benefits from his dual background in IP Law and Computer Sciences and his newly developed passion for China.
MSc

Therese-Heather Belen
Thesis: Managing Information-sharing Behaviours in Public-by-default Online Social Networks
Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan
Completed: 2010

Quentin Cregan
Thesis: Where is the Internet? : Correlating domain name and IP allocations with geospatial and socio-economic data.
Supervisor: Dr Ralph Schroeder
Completed: 2010

Tim Davies
Thesis: The Potential of Open Government Data as a Tool in Democratic Engagement and Reform of Public Cervices: The Case of Data.gov.uk
Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Eynon
Completed: 2010

Wojciech Gryc
Thesis: Influence and Network Evolution in the Political Blogosphere
Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
Completed: 2010

Scott Hale
Thesis: Cross-lingual Interaction Online: Blogging the 2010 Haitian Earthquake
Supervisor: Dr Eric Meyer
Completed: 2010

Guangyue He
Thesis: Copyright Licensing and the Translation of Scholarly Texts: The Impact of Creative Commons Licensing on English-Chinese Translations
Supervisor: Professor Bill Dutton
Completed: 2010


Ginette Law
Thesis: Internet Accessibility and Use through Mobile Phone Initiatives for Rural and Low Income Populations in Africa
Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham
Completed: 2010

Elisabeth Michaels
Thesis: Citations Among Newspapers and Blogs in the 2008 U.S. Election Cycle
Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
Completed: 2010

Wei-Feng Ni
Thesis: The Role of Social Media in Covering Developing Countries: The Case of Foreign Correspondents in China
Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan
Completed: 2010

Amaru Villanueva Rance
Thesis: Gaze-Translucency in Computer-Mediated Interactions Subtitle: Ways of seeing, being seen, and being seen to be seeing online
Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham
Completed: 2010

Jessica Richman
Thesis: Donor Motivation and Recipient Selection in Online Philanthropy: The Case Study of Kiva.org
Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan
Completed: 2010
Last updated on: 16 May 2012







