Tag: DPhil

21 January 2019

Authors: Bertram Vidgen

I’ve just come to the end of my DPhil at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), so it seems fitting to now offer some advice on applying for one. I ...
Read More Applying for a DPhil? How to Craft a Great Research Proposal

21 October 2016

Authors: Bill Dutton

It was a real honour today to speak with some of the alumni (a new word for Oxford) of the Oxford Internet Institute’s DPhil programme. A number came together ...
Read More 10th Anniversary of OII’s DPhil in Information, Communication & the Social Sciences

14 October 2016

Authors: David Sutcliffe

One of the induction week activities for our incoming masters and doctoral students is a faculty-lead discussion on the “Grand Challenges” of Internet research — many of which will ...
Read More What are the current “Grand Challenges” of Internet research?

10 February 2015

Authors: Oxford Internet Institute

Last week I got to chat with two future Masters of the Internet (they are in the MSc in the Social Sciences of the Internet at the Oxford Internet ...
Read More Internet School Podcast!

24 July 2014

Authors: Oxford Internet Institute

In my research I am trying to understand the political communication patterns of digitally enabled citizens. I sampled from the #CDNpoli Twitter network but my interest goes beyond Twitter. ...
Read More Confession time: I forgot about email!

26 June 2014

Authors: Oxford Internet Institute

I did it. This spring I went out and spoke to people. Real, actual, breathing human beings. In the flesh. I am really interested in how people are (or ...
Read More Research Update 3: To the field!

1 November 2012

Authors: Heather Ford

Mark Graham talks about the stated goal of Wikipedia to become the “sum of all human knowledge” while Ahmed Medat waits to translate into Arabic It was the end ...
Read More Language, identity and Wikipedia: Some perspectives from the Cairo “Wikipedia in the Arab World” workshop