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
Tobias Escher has interests in citizen-government relationships online (eParticipation, eGovernment), in political representation as well as e-Social Science methods. He has a background in Communication Studies, Computer Science and Politics.
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
Lucy Power examines the shifting boundaries of the modern life-science laboratory. Her thesis focused on determining the impact of online tools on the research practices of life scientists.
DPhil Alumnus
Bianca Reisdorf holds a Diploma in Sociology (2008) from Bielefeld University, Germany. She has interests in media sociology (particularly new media) and social stratification, and has worked for public relations agencies and the German print media.
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
Andre Avorio
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Technology Appropriation: A Study of the 'Open Educational Resources' Movement in Brazil
Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Completed: 2012
Laird Barret
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: "Institutional, Cultural and Design Factors Influencing Coursework-related iPad Use by Medical Students"
Supervisor: Dr Eric T. Meyer
Completed: 2012
Aditya Basu
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: How Alters Affect Impression Management on Online Social Networks: Are Your Facebook Friends the Problem?
Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan
Completed: 2012
Caroline Baylon
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: The Cybercrime Pandemic in Eastern Europe-Identifying the Root Causes
Supervisor: Dr Ian Brown
Completed: 2011
Therese-Heather Belen
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Managing Information-sharing Behaviours in Public-by-default Online Social Networks
Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan
Completed: 2010
Andreas Birkbak
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Crystallizations in the Blizzard: When improvised colloboration freezes into Facebook groups
Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder
Completed: 2011
Janine Braithwaite
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: The UK Internet Filtering Regime: Trends in Enforcement and Attitude
Supervisor: Dr Joss Wright
Completed: 2012
Alison Cies
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: "The Digital Dilemma: Gender, Empowerment, and the Global Divide in ICT Usage"
Supervisor: Dr Monica Bulger
Completed: 2012
Quentin Cregan
MSc Alumnus
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
MSc Alumnus
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
Quirijn Den Rooijen
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: I Predict a Riot? Identifying Offline Spatiotemporally Bound Group Behaviour via Automated Speech Act Classification of Twitter Data
Supervisor: Dr Joss Wright
Completed: 2012
Alec Dent
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Does the quality of an item description on ebay influence price?
Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor
Completed: 2011
Eva Didier
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Grieving Online Together: a change in the mourning process and paradigm?
Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Completed: 2011
Elizabeth Dubois
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Online Citizan Political Engagement and the Traditional Media
Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank
Completed: 2012
Alexander Furnas
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: You Are Who You Follow?: Semantic Simlarity of Political Partisan's Ego-Networks on Twitter
Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
Completed: 2012
Devin Gaffney
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Determining the Importance of Geography On Twitter
Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Completed: 2012
Graham Gannon
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Friends like me: Personality and ‘like’ behaviour on Facebook
Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor
Completed: 2012
Wojciech Gryc
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Influence and Network Evolution in the Political Blogosphere
Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
Completed: 2010
Rasmus Hagen
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Sitting on a Filter Bubble: An Examination of Fragmentation in Search Engine Results
Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder
Completed: 2012
Scott Hale
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Cross-lingual Interaction Online: Blogging the 2010 Haitian Earthquake
Supervisor: Dr Eric Meyer
Completed: 2010
Guangyue He
MSc Alumnus
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
Anna Hopper
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: How Does Political Ideology Shape Attitudes Toward Internet Policy
Supervisor: Dr Vicki Nash
Completed: 2012
Jing Jing
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: The Diffusion Information and Behaviour on Social Network Site: A Study of Event Recommendation and Participation on douban.com
Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor
Completed: 2012
Hilary Johnson
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: "Consumer Empowerment: An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Online Information Provision, Voice & Exit, and Consumer Power"
Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Eynon
Completed: 2012
Salone Kapur
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Dictatorship Gone Digital: How Authoritarian Regimes are Consolidating their Power in the Internet Age
Supervisor: Professor Helen Margetts
Completed: 2011
Hae Na Kim
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: The Relationship betwenn Quality of Collaboration Knowledge and Authorship: A Comparative Case Study of Google Knol vs. Wikipedia
Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
Completed: 2011
Gillian Langor
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: The Role of Online Particpation in Engineers Without Borders: Relating data-driven social roles to actual and perceived influence online
Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham
Completed: 2011
Marina Laube
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Changing mobility through health information on the mobile Internet
Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank
Completed: 2012
Daniel Laverick
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: "A Critical Review of Social Scientific Papers Regarding Twitter: Typologies Insights, and the Purposes of Social Scientific Research"
Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham
Completed: 2012
Ginette Law
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Internet Accessibility and Use through Mobile Phone Initiatives for Rural and Low Income Populations in Africa
Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham
Completed: 2010
Darja Leskovec
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: The Landscape of Health-Related Information on the Web: Analysis of Search Results and Link Structures for Most Popular Medical Queries
Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
Completed: 2011
Amy Longdon
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: #bbcqt: The Increasingly Social Methods of Online Communication and Interaction with Regards to the BBC's Question Time
Supervisor: Dr Vicki Nash
Completed: 2012
Henning Lueke
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: The Viability of non-monetary incentive systmes viable for profit-seeking, non-chartiable crowdsourcing projects
Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo
Completed: 2011
Momin Malik
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Networks of collaboration and field emergence in 'Internet Studies'
Supervisor: Dr Eric T. Meyer
Completed: 2012
Amy McLeod
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Developing social media practices: How a community-based initative in Birmingham supports online particpation
Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Eynon
Completed: 2012
Elisabeth Michaels
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Citations Among Newspapers and Blogs in the 2008 U.S. Election Cycle
Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
Completed: 2010
Yonatan Moskowitz
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: A Theoretical Model of Externalities in Anonymity Decisions
Supervisor: Dr Ian Brown
Completed: 2012
Poonnama Narkkitikul
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: You Will When You Believe: How Perceptions of Website Content Pwnership Affect Responsiveness and Formality in the Thai Mobile-Telecommunications Industry
Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan
Completed: 2011
David Neale
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003: obscenity, 'basic standards' and freedom of expression online
Supervisor: Dr Vicki Nash
Completed: 2011
Wei-Feng Ni
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: The Role of Social Media in Covering Developing Countries: The Case of Foreign Correspondents in China
Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan
Completed: 2010
Tom Nicholls
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: ICANN as a regulator: Measuring the impact of new gTLDs
Supervisor: Dr Vicki Nash
Completed: 2011
Molly Norris
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Application of Social Network Analysis (SNA) to the U.S. List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham
Completed: 2012
Olivia Pierce
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Mapping and understanding the geography of Flickr geotaggers
Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham
Completed: 2011
Amaru Villanueva Rance
MSc Alumnus
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
Ulrike Rauer
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Patient Trust in Internet-based Health Records: An Analysis across Operator Types and Levels of Patient Involvement in Germany
Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Eynon
Completed: 2011
Jessica Richman
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Donor Motivation and Recipient Selection in Online Philanthropy: The Case Study of Kiva.org
Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan
Completed: 2010
Felix Rieseberg
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Live and in Real-Time': How temporal sorting influences the perceptionof information relevance
Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan
Completed: 2011
Radu Rovin
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: What Makes an Online Game a Successful Learning Application? A Cross-Application Analysis
Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo
Completed: 2012
Manuel Schäffer
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Facebook's Timeline: managing the self in a new online exhibition space
Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder
Completed: 2012
Weiwei Shen
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Collectivism, Individualism and Privacy Online: A Cross-national Study of Internet Users' Attitudes and Behaviours
Supervisor: Professor William Dutton
Completed: 2011
Cohen Simpson
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Framing Collective Action: Online Communication and the Agency of Social Movements
Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
Completed: 2012
Amanda Summers-Plotno
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Using Interviews to study social media adoption: The Case of US Congress and the Non-Use of Twitter
Supervisor: Dr Monica Bulger
Completed: 2012
Katherine Tolentino
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: The Management of Identity and Privacy in Sex Worker Blogs
Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan
Completed: 2012
Russell Verbeeten
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Growth and Behaviour in Peer-to-Peer Car-Sharing
Supervisor: Dr Ian Brown
Completed: 2012
Lauren Wagner
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Unpacking Perceived Social Support Online
Supervisor: Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen
Completed: 2011
Joseph Weir
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Flattening the world': dialogue and rhetoric in the use of Twitter by Paul Kagame and the Rwandan government
Supervisor: Dr Laura Elizabeth Mann
Completed: 2012
Anika Weiss
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Factors influencing the parental restrictions on children's Intranet
Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank
Completed: 2011
Wybo Wiersma
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Simulating the emergence of critical mass in online communities: How forums scale by stimulating user contributions
Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
Completed: 2011
Lena Wong
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: The 4 C's: How YouTube is Changing the Production of Culture through Cost, Choice, Colloboration and Cotent
Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank
Completed: 2011
Ece Yurual
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Evaluating a Model of Multidimensional Trust Formation for Online Exchanges in Business-to-Consumer Commerce: The Case of Turkey
Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor
Completed: 2011
Zarino Zappia
MSc Alumnus
Thesis: Partcipation, Power and Provenance: Mapping Information Flows in Opem Data Development
Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Completed: 2011
Last updated on: 21 May 2013
