In memoriam: Dame Stephanie Shirley, CH, DBE, OBE
12 August 2025
The OII pays tribute to its founding donor Dame Stephanie Shirley, CH, DBE, OBE.
Latest news
AI is not an agent – AI is a tool
6 August 2025
Professor Anoush Margaryan, Visiting Research Fellow at the OII considers how we should frame AI: competitor, collaborator, or tool?
OII researchers will address NLP model inequalities at ACL 2025
28 July 2025
Researchers including DPhil students from the Oxford Internet Institute will present new research and share recent findings at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in Vienna.
Four graduate degrees
Academic spotlight
Find out more about the research of OII academics
Nick Ballou
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 Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
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.
Dr Sabrina Norwood
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.
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
Social platforms’ ‘language blind spots’ in content moderation bring brand safety concerns
The Media Leader, 29 August 2025
Millions of social media users in the EU are posting in languages without any human moderation oversight, according to a new study of recently mandated transparency data under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), conducted by OII researchers.
Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL
The Register, 15 August 2025
Whitehall might talk a big game when it comes to IT, but so far the words haven't fit the picture. Its own State of Digital Government report, released in January, found the central government's IT portfolio wanting.
Why We Shouldn’t Trust Facial Recognition’s Glowing Test Scores
Tech Policy Press, 18 August 2025
Failures in facial recognition technology are far from uncommon, and numerous examples continue to be reported in the press. Despite these repeated failures, the technology is rapidly being integrated into our daily lives, Luc Rocher writes.
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.
