Tag: DPhil
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Applying for a DPhil? How to Craft a Great Research Proposal
21 January 2019
Author: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 ...
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10th Anniversary of OII’s DPhil in Information, Communication & the Social Sciences
21 October 2016
Author: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 ...
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What are the current “Grand Challenges” of Internet research?
14 October 2016
Author: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 ...
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What’s your thesis again?
29 February 2016
Author:Oxford Internet Institute
Having recently completed my doctoral work a common question is “what is your thesis actually about again?” Well, here it is. In my thesis I look at the idea ...
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Internet School Podcast!
10 February 2015
Author: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 ...
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Confession time: I forgot about email!
24 July 2014
Author: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. ...
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Research Update 3: To the field!
26 June 2014
Author: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 ...
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Language, identity and Wikipedia: Some perspectives from the Cairo “Wikipedia in the Arab World” workshop
1 November 2012
Author: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 ...
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