Research

Our research is organised around broad themes: find out what is happening in the areas of everyday life, governance and democracy, science and learning and shaping the Internet.

Current projects

• COMPANIONS: Intelligent, Persistent, Personalised Multimodal Interfaces to the Internet

  Yorick Wilks

• Cybertrust: the tension between privacy and security in an e-society

  William Dutton

• Digital choices and the reconfiguring of access

  William Dutton

• GNS: Global Network of Societies Project

  William Dutton, Pekka Himanen, Tal Samuel-Azran

• Government on the Web

  Helen Margetts

• Internet governance

  Ian Brown, William Dutton, Jonathan Zittrain

• Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age

  William Dutton, Ellen Helsper, Nai Li, Monica Whitty

• OeSS: The Oxford e-Social Science Project

  Annamaria Carusi, Paul David, Matthijs den Besten, William Dutton, Jenny Fry, Marina Jirotka, Eric Meyer, Ralph Schroeder

• OpenNet Initiative: state-sponsored filtering of the Internet

  Jonathan Zittrain

• OxIS: Oxford Internet Surveys

  William Dutton, Ellen Helsper, Helen Margetts

• OXLab: Oxford eXperimental Laboratory

  Helen Margetts, Nir Vulkan

• PEACH: Presence Research in Action

  Eric T. Meyer, Ralph Schroeder

• Privacy Value Networks

  Dave Birch, Ian Brown, Tristan Henderson, Adam Joinson, Anne-Marie Oostveen, Angela Sasse

• StopBadWare.org

  Jonathan Zittrain

• The Fifth Estate

  Maja Andjelkovic, William Dutton, Jessica Richman

• The Learner and Their Context

  Sue Cranmer, Chris Davies, Rebecca Eynon, John Furlong, Jenny Good, Stuart Lee, Lars Malmberg

• The Learning Companion: an embodied conversational agent for learning

  Chris Davies, Rebecca Eynon, Yorick Wilks

• Towards a Future Internet

  Colin Blackman, Ian Brown, Jonathan Cave, Simon Forge, Karmen Guevara, Lara Srivastava, Motohiro Tsuchiya, Malte Ziewitz

• WIP: World Internet Project

  William Dutton, Ellen Helsper