20 June 2025
OII researchers are set to attend the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT) 2025.
17 June 2025
Dr Adam Mahdi, Dr Ana Valdivia, Professor Greg Taylor, and Professor Kathryn Eccles are among the teaching faculty recognised for teaching excellence at Oxford.
17 June 2025
New research from the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University, in partnership with researchers at Panthéon-Sorbonne and MIT Sloan School of Management, reveals partisan differences in sharing of misinformation on the social media platform X.
Find out more about the research of OII academics
Postdoctoral Researcher
Nick Ballou is a postdoc researching how video games affect mental health both for better and for worse, and how to make psychological research on games more trustworthy.
Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is the OII's Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sabrina studies the relationship between online environments and well-being. Her research includes creating and testing digital behavioural interventions to enhance user autonomy and digital literacy.
By Mariarosaria Taddeo
The defence sector must address how to use advancing AI safely and effectively. Mariarosaria Taddeo offers a systematic analysis of AI’s challenges in defence, providing recommendations for policy-makers and practitioners.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Economist, 26 July 2025
Forget factories. There is a better answer to the continent’s jobs crisis
Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Though "Infinite Workday," might sound like the title of a sci-fi film, it's a reality for many Americans, according to a recent report from Microsoft.
Nature, 25 June 2025
Imaging research in the popular field of computer vision almost always involves analysing humans and their environments, and most of the subsequent patents can be used in surveillance technologies, a study has found.
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.
