The big data generated by digital interactions between people, organisations, and artefacts is transforming the way that we live, work and think – posing numerous challenges to information governance and regulation, including of the Internet itself.
Our research into governance explores these challenges, and the projects we run suggest how they might be overcome through new governance rules, processes, and institutions.
By William Dutton (Editor)
The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been designed to provide a valuable resource for academics and students, bringing together leading scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studied, and the future research agenda.
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.
This project investigates how human control is currently undermined in human-AI interactions. It presents sociotechnical approaches to examine mechanisms of control, and empower people in their interactions with increasingly advanced AI systems.
This project examines the fragmented legislations and legal landscape that governs the development, sale, and deployment of AI technologies used for government surveillance.
By Rutendo Chabikwa
This report provides an overview of whether African governments and regional bodies incorporate adequate consideration of gender in their discussions of AI and its potential role in economic development.
15 August 2024
Looking for new reading recommendations for the summer months? The Oxford Internet Institute's faculty, staff, and students share their top picks.
9 February 2024
On 14th February 2024, Indonesia will hold its fifth direct presidential election since transitioning to democracy in 1998.
5 February 2024
As we mark Safer Internet Day, Professor Sandra Wachter, spoke to us about the online phenomenon known as ‘deepfakes’, how to spot them and the implications of the growing proliferation of deepfakes for internet safety.
2 February 2024
Why 2024 promises to be an important year for elections and internet research and how students and colleagues at the OII plan to make sense of these events.
Time Magazine, 09 April 2025
But rather than enticing companies to create new jobs in the U.S., economists say, the new tariffs—bolstered by recent advancements in artificial intelligence and robotics—could instead increase incentives for companies to automate human labour.
Fortune, 09 April 2025
Google’s latest AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, was released without a key safety report—a move that critics say violates public commitments the company made to both the U.S. government and at an international summit last year.
Reuters, 29 January 2025
Chinese startup DeepSeek's launch of its latest AI models, which it says are on a par or better than industry-leading models in the United States at a fraction of the cost, is threatening to upset the technology world order.
