OII | OxIS 2019: The Rise of Mobile Internet Use in Britain

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In the short time from 2013 until 2019 the use of mobile has been the most dramatic change in how individuals in Britain use the Internet. This reflects a global trend in the adoption of mobile phones and mobile Internet use. However, the uniquely UK dynamics and consequences of this transformation are starkly illuminated in the results of the 2019 edition of the Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS).

In this report, Oxford researchers Grant Blank, William H. Dutton, and Julia Lefkowitz argue that the results of the 2019 survey demonstrate how embedded the Internet has become in Britain and also how mobile Internet has become not simply a desirable innovation, but an essential aspect of everyday life and work.

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Publication date:
February 2020

Authors

Dr Grant Blank

Research Associate

Grant Blank's work focuses on the social and cultural implications of the Internet and new media, quantitative and qualitative methods, and cultural sociology. He taught on the OII social statistics courses.

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Professor William H. Dutton

Senior Fellow, Advisory Board Member

Bill Dutton was the OII’s Founding Director, a Fellow of Balliol College and the first Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University.

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Julia Lefkowitz

Former DPhil Student

Julia was an OII DPhil student interested in tabloidization, online journalism, journalism and democracy, public sphere, corpus linguistics, and discourse analysis.

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Oxis

The Oxford Internet Survey is the longest-running academic survey of internet use in Britain, describing how it has evolved from 2003 to the present day.

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