Global musicians face the same ‘streaming paradox’, new study finds
9 April 2026
For musicians everywhere, streaming is indispensable, but so is the belief that it simply doesn’t pay fairly.
Latest news
Digital care tech’s double edge: Oxford research flags privacy risks and carer burnout
16 March 2026
Study finds digital care technologies could both support and strain unpaid carers, with benefits and risks to loved ones.
Professor Rebecca Eynon elected to prestigious Academy of Social Sciences Fellowship
9 March 2026
Professor Rebecca Eynon, Professor of Education, the Internet and Society, is among the outstanding social scientists elected to the fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences today.
Next events
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Apr
Europe’s digital trajectory in a fragmenting world
14:00 - 15:30, Blavatnik School of Government
With Giuseppe Abbamonte, Professor Greg Taylor, Dr Roxana Radu, and Dylan ThurgoodWe will unpack how the policy objectives of the European Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy have evolved over the past 10 years, how the landscape of competition policy is shifting, and the implications this has for global tech governance
Four graduate degrees
Academic spotlight
Find out more about research by OII academics
Dr Janaki Srinivasan
Associate Professor Digital South Asian Studies
Janaki's research examines the politics of digital exclusion in India. She uses ethnographic and archival research to examine how gender, caste and class have shaped the use of information and information technologies in varied contexts.
Professor Brent Mittelstadt
Professor of Data Ethics and Policy
Professor Brent Mittelstadt is a data ethicist and philosopher specializing in AI ethics, professional ethics, and technology law and policy. He is the founder/coordinator of the Governance of Emerging Technologies (GET) programme.
Dr Bernie Hogan
Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow
Bernie Hogan examines how to capture, represent and think about social networks, especially personal social networks. His work focuses on the role of design in social media, network capture techniques and theories of relationships.
Latest projects
Stewardship of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
The Synthetic Society Lab aims to improve how we research, access, and use sensitive human data. The fellowship will advance an evidence-based science of privacy engineering to make research using digital traces safe and reliable.
Worker Voice and AI Adoption
This project investigates how worker representation in German firms shapes AI use and adoption, asking whether employee voice at firms can steer AI toward complementing workers rather than automating them.
US-China AI Governance PhD Fellowship
The project will investigate the international relations and social dynamics of international AI competition, specifically the sociopolitical and bureaucratic drivers of US-China AI competition.
Latest report
By Femke de Rijk and Robert Prey
A new report from the Oxford Internet Institute and the University of Groningen identifies the 'streaming paradox' with evidence from five countries - Brazil, Chile, the Netherlands, Nigeria and South Korea.
Press coverage
The Code Is Not the Law: Why Claude’s Constitution Misleads
Lawfare, 09 April 2026
Anthropic’s appeals to constitutionalism and virtue-ethics risk obscuring where the power and accountability for shaping AI behavior lies.
Pilier de l’intelligence artificielle, Hugging Face diffuse des centaines de milliers de documents soumis au droit d’auteur
Mediapart, 06 April 2026
L’entreprise propose une bibliothèque « open source » réunissant une quantité astronomique de livres et de documents, utilisés pour entraîner les modèles d’IA. Luc Rocher de l’OII commente.
The AI bots making humans their wage slaves
Daily Telegraph, 06 April 2026
The OII's Professor Mark Graham comments on the gig economy behind the training of AI bots.
