15 July 2025
New research from the Oxford Internet Institute and MIT Sloan School of Management research shows that having shared connections directly contributes to social media users connecting with one another online.
7 July 2025
Whether it is merely long-term hype or near-term reality, Large Language Models (LLMs) in medicine are well-positioned to engage with a wide range of medical tasks and be used for medical research purposes.
4 July 2025
Dr Fabian Braesemann explores how rental levels in Vienna responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and asks what we can learn from Vienna to solve the global housing crisis.
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.
Newsweek, 10 July 2025
The AI revolution isn't ahead of us; it's here. But, for a technology that's been heralded as the future, it risks bringing with it problems from the past.
British Medical Association, 10 July 2025
Chatbots do quite well in diagnosing conditions, but only in other chatbots, new research has found.
Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast, 09 July 2025
Meta’s Project Waterworth isn’t just another undersea cable - it’s an 18,000 mile behemoth set to link continents, with India’s data centres as a key hub. Anniki Mikelsaar from the OII breaks down its geopolitical stakes.
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.
