Press Releases

We say goodbye to our founding director, William Dutton, who leaves to take up the directorship of the Quello Center, MSU

7 August 2014

It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our founding director William Dutton, who after twelve years at the Oxford Internet Institute will be leaving to take up the Directorship of the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law, MSU.

A little video game-playing linked with better-adjusted children

4 August 2014

A new study suggests video game-playing for less than an hour a day is linked with better-adjusted children and teenagers.

Luciano Floridi Appointed to Google’s Advisory Council on the Right to be Forgotten

11 July 2014

Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford and Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute, has been appointed as a member of Google’s Advisory Council on the Right to be Forgotten.

Call for Papers: Policy and Internet Special Issue on Social Data Science and the Chinese Web

23 June 2014

Policy and Internet is inviting submissions for a special issue on the development of social data science in China – the use of innovative data science tools, methods and big data in order to advance research on the Chinese Internet and society.

Games linked to aggression if players can’t master technology

8 April 2014

Playing electronic games can make people feel aggressive, but new research finds that the reason has little to do with violent content.

Luciano Floridi Awarded UC3M’s “Cátedras de Excelencia” Prize for His Work on the Philosophy and Ethics of Information

14 March 2014

Luciano Floridi, the OII's Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, and Fellow of St Cross College, has been awarded this year's Cátedras de Excelencia for his work on the philosophy and ethics of information.

Policy and Internet Calls for Special Issues

18 February 2014

The Editorial Board of Policy and Internet is pleased to announce a call for a Guest Editor for a Special Issue of the journal, to be published in 2015.

Reinventing Privacy Principles for the Big Data Age – New Report

6 December 2013

Now is the time to augment and improve the Privacy Principles drawn up by the OECD over 30 years ago to ensure their relevance in the age of Big Data. A new report by Professor Mayer-Schönberger and colleagues signposts five priorities.

Luciano Floridi joins the Nexa Center for Internet & Society’s Board of Trustees

18 November 2013

The Nexa Center for Internet & Society announces that OII Professor Luciano Floridi has joined their Board of Trustees.

Conference Call for Papers: “Crowdsourcing Politics and Policy” (IPP2014)

5 November 2013

We are pleased to call for papers for the 2014 Internet, Politics, Politics conference, convened by the OII for the journal Policy and Internet, in collaboration with the ECPR Standing Group on Internet and Politics.

Oxford Internet Institute Honours Internet Pioneers, John Seely-Brown, Alec Ross, Max Schrems and Galaxy Zoo Co-founder, Chris Lintott

24 October 2013

The OII is delighted to announce the names of the outstanding contributors to the Internet who will be presented with Awards at a ceremony in Oxford in November. The awards recognize their pivotal role in shaping the ecosystem of today’s Internet.

Jeremy Bowles and Sara M. Watson are Awarded the 2013 OII MSc Thesis Prize

10 October 2013

Masters students Jeremy Bowles and Sara M. Watson have received the 2013 OII MSc thesis prize for their work on IP address governance and the 'quantified self' community respectively.

Doing the math ‘predicts’ which movies will be box office hits

22 August 2013

A mathematical model devised by OII researcher Taha Yasseri and his colleagues has proven to be very effective in predicting the box office success of newly-released films by using an analysis of Wikipedia activity.

Prestigious Scholarships Awarded to OII Students

8 July 2013

We are very pleased to announce that a large number of our incoming students have won prestigious scholarships.

OII Professor William Dutton Wins Frederick Williams Prize, in Recognition of his Outstanding Contributions to the Study of Communication Technology

24 June 2013

William Dutton was awarded the Frederick Williams Prize at the 2013 ICA conference in recognition of his outstanding contributions to knowledge concerning the social uses and impacts of new communication technologies.