Oxford Internet Institute

Current visitors

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  Mark Bunting

  Visiting Associate

  Expert on digital transformation of public service media. Held senior strategy/policy roles at the BBC and Ofcom. Previous career in research including online community insight, public consultation, and qualitative and quantitative social research.

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  Dr Tom Chatfield

  Visiting Associate

  Tom Chatfield is a British author, broadcaster and tech philosopher. The author of six books exploring digital culture, he is currently researching critical thinking in the 21st century.

  email: tom.chatfield@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Tom Steinberg

  Visiting Policy Fellow

  Tom is now a strategy consultant, the senior contributing editor to Civicist (a publication on civic technology), an Ashoka fellow, and a visiting fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute.

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  Dr Ralph Straumann

  Visitor

  Ralph Straumann has earned his PhD in Geography from the University of Zurich with foci in geographic information science and cartography. He specialises in research about geographies of the Internet and user-generated content.

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  Professor Richard Susskind OBE

  Advisory Board Member, Visiting Professor

  A pioneer in the field of information technology and law, Richard Susskind is IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, and chairman of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute.

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  Professor Judy Wajcman

  Visiting Professor

  Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Past visitors

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  Hal Abelson

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Hal Abelson is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Abelson has a broad interest in information technology and policy, and a longstanding interest in using computation as a conceptual framework in teaching.

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  Dr Robert Ackland

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Robert Ackland is a Fellow at the Australian National University (ANU). He has interests in the development of new methods (and associated e-Research tools) for quantitative analysis of social and economic phenomena on the Internet.

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  Richard Allan

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Richard Allan is a member of the Information Select Committee and the Liaison Committee of the House of Commons. He speaks and writes on a range of technology related subjects, including the development of e-democracy and e-government.

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  Dr Miriyam Aouragh

  Former Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow

  Miriyam Aouragh has interests in mobility, interactivity, empowerment, grassroots activism and the construction of (imagined) online communities. She is studying the implications of new generation/Internet 2.0 for Palestinian and Lebanese activists.

  email: miriyam.aouragh@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Dr Ann-Sofie Axelsson

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Ann-Sofie Axelsson is a lecturer and researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. At the OII she undertook research on ethical, legal and institutional dynamics of e-science in Sweden.

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  Dr Maria Bakardjieva

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Maria Bakardjieva is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. At the OII she conducted an ethnographic study of the Internet as a communication medium, focusing on intensive field work in Bulgaria.

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  Diego Beas

  Former Visiting Fellow

  In the last few years, my research has focused on the way information technologies affect governance and the political process.

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  Professor Christine Borgman

  Former Visiting Fellow, Former Visiting Fellow

  Christine Borgman is Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). her sabbatical research project at the OII addressed e-Science, Digital Libraries, and Knowledge Communities.

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  Dr Reneta Bozhankova

  Former Visiting Scholar

  Reneta Bozhankova is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Slavic Studies at the University of Sofia St Kliment Ohridski. Currently she is participating in projects investigating e-publishing and e-learning in Slavic Studies.

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  David A. Bray

  Former Visiting Associate

  David Bray studied as a PhD candidate researching Information Systems at the Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta. His interests include knowledge ecosystems, augmented group cognition, and emerging virtual institutions.

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  Dr Yana Breindl

  Former Wiener-Anspach Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow

  Yana Breindl researches digital rights campaigning at the European level, particularly targeting internet and copyright regulations.

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  Dr Dennis Broeders

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Dennis Broeders is a senior research fellow at the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) and a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Sociology of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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  Diane Cabell

  Former Visiting Industry Associate

  Diane Cabell is counsel for Creative Commons and iCommons. She is a former Clinical Instructor and Assistant Director of the Berkman Center at Harvard and founder of its Clinical Program in Cyberlaw.

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  Bob Carlson

  Former Visiting Associate

  Bob Carlson was HSBC Group Head of IT Operations and Telecommunications. He has pioneered global resourcing contracts with many IT and Telecommunications hardware, software, and services providers, as well as global virtual teaming concepts.

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  Federica Casarosa

  Former Academic Visitor

  Federica Casarosa is a doctoral student at the European University Institute in Florence. At the OII she undertook research on the regulation of online auctions, taking into account the role of self-regulation and public governance.

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  Professor Manuel Castells

  Former Distinguished Visiting Professor

  Manuel Castells is Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), in Barcelona. He also a University Professor and the holder of the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society at the USC Annenberg School of Communication

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  Professor Andrew Chadwick

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Andrew Chadwick is Professor of Political Science at the New Political Communication Unit, Royal Holloway, University of London. His research explores the Internet and new media as they relate to political communication, governance, and public policy.

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  Professor Kriengsak Chareonwongsak

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Kriengsak Chareonwongsak is President of the Institute of Future Studies for Development in Thailand. His interests include macro economics, public policy, economics of Internet, and governance reform.

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  Dr Jaz Hee-jeong Choi

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Jaz Hee-jeong Choi is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Urban Informatics Research Lab, Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

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  Dr Regina Connolly

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Dr Regina Connolly is a Senior Lecturer in Management Information Systems at DCU Business School, where she has responsibility for postgraduate courses in Information Systems.

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  J. Ignacio Criado

  Former Visiting Fellow

  J. Ignacio Criado is Lecturer in Politics and Public Administration, Autonomous University of Madrid. His interests cover public sector reform and modernization, quality and knowledge management in public organizations, and information society policies.

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  Dr Jeremy Crump

  Former Visiting Associate

  Jeremy Crump is Director of Strategy at the National Policing Improvement Agency, an agency of the Home Office. This role includes direction of the NPIA's research programme and its science and innovation strategy.

  email: jcrump01@gmail.com

  tel: +44 (0)7730 015847

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  Dr Paolo D’Iorio

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Paolo D'Iorio has a tenured position at the CNRS / ENS, Paris. His interests include collaborative networked research, digital libraries and archives, Open Source in the humanities, and the semantic web.

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  Peter Davies

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Peter Davies is a barrister who has held senior legal positions in a number of technology companies, including Microsoft, IBM and Apple Computers. He has acted as a consultant to the OECD on technology law.

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  Dr Alistair Duff

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Alistair Duff is a Reader in the Centre for Social Informatics and the School of Arts and Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University. At the OII he undertook research on information policy and the social distribution of information and news.

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  Professor Soumitra Dutta

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Soumitra Dutta is the Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Business and Technology, and Founder and Director of elab@INSEAD, Fountainbleau, France.

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  Lucy Firth

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Lucy Firth is a teacher and researcher at the Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne. At the OII she worked on the socio-psycho impact of the Internet, and the Internet's potential in supporting clinicians in humanitarian disasters.

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  Dr Marcus Foth

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Marcus Foth is a Senior Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His research pioneers new development approaches towards interactive social networking systems informed by community, social, and urban studies.

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  Prof. Dr. Georg Glasze

  Former Visitor

  Georg holds the chair of Cultural Geography at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg and is member of the Erlangen Centre Digital Social Sciences and Humanities. His interests include Critical Cartography and Geoweb-Studies.

  email: georg.glasze@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Edgar Gómez Cruz

  Former Visiting Doctoral Student

  Edgar Gómez is a doctoral student at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. His background is in Communication Studies and Sociology.

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  Professor Olena Goroshko

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Olena Goroshko is at the National Technical University, Ukraine. Her interests include psycho- and sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, gender studies, forensic linguistics and distance education.

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  Richard Grant

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Richard Grant is a career foreign service officer in the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. His research at the OII concentrated on the effects of modern information technologies on the practice of diplomacy.

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  Dr Francesco Grillo

  Former Visiting Associate

  Francesco holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Boston University. He is managing director of Vision & Value and advisor on innovation policies for the European Commission. He regularly writes for Italian and International newspapers.

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  Dr Louise Guthrie

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Louise Guthrie's recent research in Natural Language Processing has focused on text classification, semantic analysis of text, document reliability and security, and technology to discover hidden meanings in text.

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  Dr Paul Henman

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Paul Henman is senior lecturer in social policy at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research focuses on the nexus between information technologies, public administration and government policy processes.

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  Dr Maria Jose Hernández Serrano

  Former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

  Maria Jose Hernández Serrano is Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Theory and History of Education (Faculty of Education) in the University of Salamanca.

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  Professor Pekka Himanen

  Former Visiting Professor

  Pekka Himanen is a Professor at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, a Visiting Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, and a principal scientist at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology.

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  Professor Dr Thomas Hoeren

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Thomas Hoeren is based at the Institute on Information, Telecommunications and Media Law (ITM) at Westfaelisch Universitaet. At the OII he focused on Internet governance and notions of 'informational justice' related to access to cyberinfrastructures.

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  Professor Jens Hoff

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Jens Hoff is a professor in comparative politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research focuses on the importance of ICT for political institutions and processes, political culture and identity.

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  Alison Holt FIITP, M.Inst.D, CITP

  Former Academic Visitor

  Alison Holt is an internationally acclaimed expert in the Governance of Information Technology and Data, and a business owner. She is a member of the World Class New Zealand Network and committed to mentoring young technology companies and promoting the economic growth of New Zealand.

  email: alison.holt@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Professor Nicholas W. Jankowski

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Nicholas W. Jankowski is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Nijmegen. He has studied community media and other small-scale forms of communication, including use of the Internet in election campaigns.

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  Dr Jakob Linaa Jensen

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Jakob Jensen has research interests focused on social and democratic uses of the Internet. He is part of a big Danish national research project on the new borderlines and interfaces of the public sphere.

  email: jakob.jensen@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287229

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  Dr Jianbin Jin

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Jianbin Jin is currently an Associate Professor of the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University, China. He has interests in the adoption, use and social effects of new media, communication theory and research methods.

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  Professor Aharon Kellerman

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Aharon Kellerman is Vice President of the University of Haifa. At the OII he studied the geography of the website production and consumption. His interests include economic and urban geography, timespace studies and social theory and geography.

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  Dr Linda Jean Kenix

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Linda Jean Kenix is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Her research interests have focused on the representation of marginal groups in mass media, giving specific attention to the agenda-setting role of media in society.

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  Dr Tanai Khiaonarong

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Tanai is a Senior Financial Sector Expert in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund.

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  Professor Young Mie Kim

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Young Mie Kim's research centres around new media and democracy; at the OII she will be examining collective action in the new media environment.

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  Christopher Kuner

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Christopher Kuner is a partner in the Brussels office of the international law firm Hunton & Williams. He has interests in data protection law, privacy law, private international law, European law, legal aspects of the Internet and electronic commerce.

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  Professor John Laprise

  Former Visiting Fellow

  John Laprise is an Assistant Professor in Residence at Northwestern University in Qatar and serves as a Consulting Scholar to ictQatar.

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  Dr Sonia Liff

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Sonia Liff is a Reader in Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour at Warwick Business School. She has research interests in gender and employment; technical change and occupational and skill needs; equality and diversity policies and practices.

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  Professor Miriam Lips

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Miriam Lips is Professor of E-Government at Victoria University of Wellington. Her interests include identity management, citizen-centric government, e-participation, government 2.0, e-records management, personalisation, and digital citizenship.

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  Christoph Lutz

  Former Visiting Doctoral Student

  Christoph Lutz is a doctoral student at the Institute for Media and Communications Management of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His background is in Sociology and he is investigating the social impact of new communication technologies, especially social media.

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  Jorge Luis Salcedo Maldonado

  Former Visiting Doctoral Student

  Jorge Luis Salcedo Maldonado is researching the structure of mobilization online networks against antipiracy law: supranational and national activism in the European Union (the case of Spain).

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  Dr Chris Mann

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Chris Mann is a Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Her pioneering work on methodological and ethical issues in doing Internet-research underpinned her research at the OII.

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  Dr Alessandro Mantelero

  Former Visiting Fellow, Former Visiting Fellow

  Alessandro Mantelero is aggregate professor of Private Law at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Director of Privacy and Faculty Fellow at the Nexa Center for Internet and Society. His research is focused on data protection, Big Data and privacy.

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  Dr Ursula Martin

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Ursula Martin holds appointments at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Cambridge. She worked at the OII to explore strategies for the ACM to promote diversity and the status of women in the computing professions.

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  Dr Gustavo Mesch

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Gustavo Mesch is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is studying patterns of Internet use and the role of the Internet in adolescents' social relationships and the nature of social networks online and offline in Israel through time.

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  Desiree Miloshevic

  Former Visiting Associate, Former Visiting Associate

  Desiree Miloshevic is International Affairs and Policy Adviser at Afilias. She has participated actively in the areas of DNS policy and Internet governance, including work as an expert technical and policy consultant for new top-level domains.

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  Dr Gianluca Miscione

  Former Visiting Fellow

  I have a long lasting interest in organizational aspects of information technologies in use in the most diverse contexts. I have conducted and contributed to research in Europe, Latin America, India, East Africa, and on the Internet in the empirical domains of health, planning and currencies.

  email: gianluca.miscione@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Dr Ted Nelson

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Ted Nelson occupies a unique place in the computer field, a 'systems humanist' designer whose vision of a Utopian world of intellect focused around the computer screen foresaw (from the 1960s) the kind of cyberworld that has been opened by the Internet.

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  Professor Gregory O’Hare

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Gregory O'Hare is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science & Informatics at University College Dublin. His research interests include distributed Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), and mobile and ubiquitous computing.

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  Osaro Odemwingie

  Former CSPP Visitor

  Osaro Odemwingie is a human rights and development worker. At the OII he undertook research on the impact of ICTs on advocacy for transparency and accountability in governance, focusing on the Campaign For Freedom of Information Act in Nigeria.

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  Dr Han Woo Park

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Han Woo Park conducts research on various computer-mediated communication issues, focusing on the use of new communication technologies in extending social networks and the role of communication in scientific, technical, and innovative activities.

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  Dr Sora Park

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Sora Park is an Associate Professor at the University of Canberra. Her research focuses on the digital media users and digital inclusion policy. At OII she is undertaking research on the relationship between online and offline realities.

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  Professor Helen Partridge

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Professor Helen Partridge is based in the Faculty of Science and Technology at QUT, Brisbane, Australia. At the OII she will undertake a study exploring people's information practices within a web 2.0 world.

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  Dr Jenny Pickerill

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Jenny Pickerill is a lecturer in Human Geography at Leicester University. She has a particular interest in Internet activism, and is currently exploring anti-war activism in Britain, and anti-capitalist activism and everyday life.

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  Ms Sarah Porter

  Former Visitor

  Sarah is best known for leading Jisc’s innovation work for over ten years, championing the use of digital technologies to enhance learning, teaching, research.

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  Dr Cornelius Puschmann

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Cornelius Puschmann is a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin’s School of Library and Information Science (BSLIS) and a research associate at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG).

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  Professor Charles D. Raab

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Charles Raab is Professor of Government at the University of Edinburgh. He has interests in data protection, public access to information, e-government, data-sharing, police cooperation, e-democracy, surveillance, as well as regulatory policy.

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  Danica M. Radovanovic

  Former PhD Chevening Scholar

  Summary to be supplied

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  Dr Babak Rahimi

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Babak Rahimi's current research is on the implications of ICTs for Shi'i Islam in Iran and Iraq, especially how the Internet contributes to Shi'i politics online.

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  Terje Rasmussen

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Terje Rasmussen is Professor of Media Studies and Digital Media at the University of Oslo. His interests include social and technical changes of the Internet, Internet governance, the Internet in everyday life, ethics of the media, and social theory.

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  Professor Gene Rochlin

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Gene Rochlin is Professor of Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley. During his time at the OII, he worked on issues of security, dependency, and embedding of IT and other electronic networks.

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  Luis Fernando Rodríguez Garcia

  Former Visiting Doctoral Student

  Fernando Rodríguez is a doctoral candidate and teaching assistant at the Department of Constitutional Law at the National University of Distance Education (UNED), Madrid.

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  Professor Inma Rodríguez-Ardura

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Inma Rodríguez-Ardura is researching the Internet's impact on pricing strategies and price competition, attitudinal outcomes in consumer adoption of e-commerce-based recommendation systems, and the role and influence of motivations in online consumption.

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  Professor Seamus Ross

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Seamus Ross is Dean of the Faculty of Information (commonly known as the iSchool) at the University of Toronto. He is interested in approaches to ensuring the long term accessibility of the materials created or represented in digital form.

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  Mary Rundle

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Mary Rundle is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School. Her interests include how new tools for digital identity management can strengthen user control and contribute to a person's autonomy.

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  Dr Christian Sandvig

  Former Visiting Fellow, Former Visiting Fellow

  Christian Sandvig is an Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He researches the tensions between social, technical, and legal mechanisms of control in the development of communication technologies.

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  Lisa Sargood

  Former Visiting Associate

  Lisa Sargood is a digital professional who has driven BBC Vision's factual multiplatform strategy with projects such as Springwatch, Virtual Revolution, Wildlife Finder, LabUK and Wonders of the Universe.

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  Jesper Schlaeger

  Former Visiting Doctoral Student

  Jesper Schlaeger is a PhD Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science. His academic work focuses on Internet-mediated changes of power relations within the Chinese political system.

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  Wendy Seltzer

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Wendy Seltzer is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University. She founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, and speaks frequently on copyright, trademark, open source, and the public interest online.

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  Dr Huipeng Shi

  Former HCN Visiting Fellow

  Dr Huipeng Shi works as the Associate Chief Physician in Department of Orthopaedics at the Shanghai 6th Hospital, Jiao Tong University. He attained an MBA from Hong Kong University and has eight patents for trauma-related products in the P.R.China.

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  Professor Ignace Snellen

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Ignace Snellen is an Emeritus Professor of Public Administration at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. he has specialised in the impact of ICTs on the internal and external relations of public administrations.

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  Professor Mingqiu Song

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Dr Mingqiu Song is an Associate Professor of the School of Management, Dalian University of Technology, China. Her previous research focused on the network information security.

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  Prof. Dr. Sarah Spiekermann

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Sarah chairs the Institute for Management Information Systems at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna). She has published over 70 articles on social and ethical implications of computer systems and has given over 80 presentations of her work and thinking throughout the world.

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  Dr Jo Tacchi

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Jo Tacchi is a Senior Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She has conducted research on radio and the Internet in the UK, Australia, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and South Africa.

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  Professor John Taylor

  Former Visiting Fellow, Former Visiting Fellow

  John Taylor is Professor of Government and Information Management at Caledonian Business School, Glasgow. Recent work focuses on emergent new public policy initiatives in the UK and Europe aimed at the formation of new governance structures.

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  Dhanaraj Thakur

  Former Visiting Doctoral Student

  Summary to be supplied

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  Hannibal Travis

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Hannibal Travis is an Associate Professor of Law at Florida International University. His research interests include net neutrality regulation, copyright and patent reform, and the legal implications of digital media.

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  Professor Joseph Turow

  Former Astor Visiting Lecturer

  Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School For Communication.

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  Dr Harry Valetk

  Former Visiting Associate

  Harry A. Valetk is a new media attorney devoted to data privacy, consumer protection, and the complex interaction between the law, technology, and society at large.

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  Thierry Vedel

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Thierry Vedel is a researcher with the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Centre for Political Research (CEVIPOF), Paris. His research interests cover media policies and regulation, political communication, Internet and politics.

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  Roberto Verzola

  Former CSPP Visitor

  Roberto Verzola undertook research at the OII on how technologies and other modern developments have been used in various countries to enhance (or subvert) electoral processes, and applied the lessons learned to the case of the Philippines.

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  Tony Wales

  Former Visiting Associate

  Tony Wales was appointed as General Counsel of AOL International in June 2007, responsible for the company's worldwide legal affairs outside the United States. During this time he has been instrumental in the launch of new businesses in 31 territories.

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  Dr Junchao Wang

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Dr Junchao Wang is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Criticism with Tsinghua University, China. He is a media critic with ten years' experience in media criticism teaching and practice.

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  Professor David Waterman

  Former Visiting Fellow

  David Waterman is Professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. His research and teaching interests center on the economics of media, and more generally on the economics of information.

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  Professor Frank Webster

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Frank Webster is Professor of Sociology at City University, University of London. He has written extensively on information developments and information society issues, and undertaken research at the OII in the area of democratisation and new media.

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  Dr Deborah Wheeler

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Deborah Wheeler teaches at the Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Washington, Seattle. She focuses on the development and impact of the Internet in the Islamic World.

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  Paul F. Wouters

  Former NCeSS Visiting Research Fellow

  Paul Wouters is scientific director of the Erasmus Studio, and holds a professorship at the EUR Faculty of Social Sciences. He is interested in the design and analysis of new scholarly practices in the humanities and social sciences.

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  Professor Matthew Zook

  Former Visiting Fellow

  Professor Matthew Zook is a Professor in Geography at the University of Kentucky (USA) and have just completed a year as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Tartu (Estonia).

Doctoral students

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  Ramtin (Rami) Amin

  DPhil student

  Rami Amin is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford, focusing on the use of experimental methods to explore political science research questions and themes. His thesis investigates the impact of visibility and transparency on democratic participation and civic behavior.

  email: ramtin.amin@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Gillian Bolsover

  DPhil Student

  Gillian Bolsover is an OII DPhil student. Her thesis will examine the potential of the Internet to change the balance of political power between established power holders and networked individuals in both the US and China.

  email: gillian.bolsover@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Samantha Bradshaw

  DPhil student

  Samantha is an OII DPhil student interested in internet governance, cybersecurity, standards and protocols, human rights online, international institutions, government and politics.

  email: samantha.bradshaw@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Sian Brooke

  DPhil student

  Sian Brooke is a DPhil student at the OII.

  email: sian.brooke@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Corinne Cath

  DPhil student

  Corinne is an OII DPhil student interested in internet governance, internet fragmentation, multistakeholder model of internet governance, governance of the internet’s technical infrastructure, internet standard setting bodies (IEEE, IETF, W3C etc.).

  email: corinne.cath@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Bruce Eric Etling

  DPhil Student

  Bruce Etling's research is focused on the impact of the Internet on politics, political participation, and collective action.

  email: bruce.etling@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Thomas Flavel

  DPhil student

  Thomas is an OII DPhil student focused on self-presentation on the Chinese internet.

  email: thomas.flavel@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Patrick Gildersleve

  DPhil student

  Patrick is an OII DPhil student interested in complex networks, wikis, computational social science, social network analysis, data de-anonymization, machine learning.

  email: patrick.gildersleve@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Khairunnisa Haji Ibrahim

  DPhil Student

  Khairunnisa is interested in the digital representation of places and how these affect sense of place and place-making activities, the production, management and consumption of user-generated content, crowdsourcing and online mapping.

  email: khairunnisa.hajiibrahim@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Julia Lefkowitz

  DPhil student

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

  email: julia.lefkowitz@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Yin Yin Lu

  DPhil student

  Yin is fascinated by the intersection between language and technology. Her research focuses on the hashtag, one of the most notable sociotechnical phenomena of the 21st century.

  email: yin.lu@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Joshua Melville

  DPhil student, Research Assistant

  Joshua Melville is a DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute. He is interested in several broad themes. Among them: modernity, identity, methodology, social structure, and visual representation.

  email: joshua.melville@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Allison Mishkin

  DPhil Student and MSc Alumna

  Allison is a DPhil student focused on technology and child development. Her research interests include STEM education, the influence of home, school, and social environments unto technology outcomes, women in STEM, and how to maximize positive outcomes.

  email: allison.mishkin@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Laura Molloy

  DPhil student

  Laura is interested in the digital curation and information / digital literacy practices within specific research areas and professions. At the OII, she is focusing on digital curation and digital literacy skills in UK visual art professional practice.

  email: laura.molloy@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Paige Mustain

  DPhil student

  Paige is an OII DPhil candidate whose research bridges the political economy of communication and cultural studies focusing specifically on technology-driven education models serving low-income youth.

  email: paige.mustain@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Tom Nicholls

  DPhil student

  Tom Nicholls is a DPhil student studying the impact of technology on citizen/government relationships, the Internet's implications for public management and models of electronic public service delivery.

  email: tom.nicholls@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Dana Polatin-Reuben

  DPhil student

  Dana is a doctoral student at Oxford’s Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security.

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  Vyacheslav W. Polonski

  DPhil student

  Vyacheslav Polonski is a doctoral student at the OII, specialising in network science and the sociology of the Internet. His research focuses on the structural aspects of collective behaviour in online communities.

  email: vyacheslav.polonski@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Godofredo Ramizo Jr

  DPhil student

  Godo is an OII DPhil Student interested in mobile applications, governance failure, on-demand ride apps, impact of mobile apps on governance, governance reform, political economy, developmental impact of technology.

  email: godofredojr.ramizo@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Odysseas Sclavounis

  DPhil student

  Odysseas Sclavounis is an OII DPhil student.

  email: odysseas.sclavounis@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Joe Shaw

  Research Assistant, DPhil student

  Joe Shaw is an OII DPhil student and Research Assistant. His research is concerned with the geography of information, property market technologies (PropTech) and critical urbanism.

  email: joe.shaw@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Kate Sim

  DPhil student

  Kate Sim is an OII DPhil student.

  email: kate.sim@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Theodora Sutton

  DPhil student

  Theodora is an OII DPhil student interested in digital anthropology.

  email: theodora.sutton@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Bertram Vidgen

  DPhil student

  Bertram Vidgen is an OII DPhil student. His research focuses on far-right extremism in online contexts.

  email: bertie.vidgen@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Thomas Vogl

  DPhil student

  Thomas Vogl is an OII DPhil student interested in digital government; public management; organizational behaviour; public policy; evidence-based decision-making; data integration; public service delivery; program evaluation; policy analysis.

  email: thomas.vogl@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Gregory Walton

  DPhil student

  Gregory is a DPhil candidate at Oxford's Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security.

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  Wybo Wiersma

  DPhil student

  Wybo Wiersma is an OII DPhil student.

  email: wybo.wiersma@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  James Williams

  DPhil student

  James Williams is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. He studies the ethics of attention and persuasion in technology design.

  email: james.williams@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Pu Yan

  DPhil student

  Pu Yan is an OII DPhil student. She is interested in how ICTs have changed Chinese interpersonal relationships (guanxi) and transformed the everyday information practices in rural and urban China.

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  Ben Zevenbergen

  DPhil Student, Research Assistant

  Ben is an OII DPhil student and Research Assistant working on the EU Internet Science project.

  email: bendert.zevenbergen@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 612339

Masters students

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  Kaveh Azarhoosh

  MSc student (Part Time)

  Kaveh is a part time MSc student at the OII.

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  William Bumpas

  MSc student

  William Bumpas is interested in the formation and manipulation of public opinion online. He previously worked in Shanghai for Kantar Media CIC, a social media analysis and consulting firm, and holds a BA in International Studies and Chinese.

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  Daniel Chase

  MSc student

  Daniel Chase is interested in cyber security, quantum computing, big data, and machine learning. He earned his B.A. in political science from Columbia University, graduating summa cum laude.

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  Juan Costa

  MSc student (Part Time)

  Juan Costa holds a bachelors degree from Leiden Unviersity, the Netherlands. He also completed an internship for Lenovo in Shanghai, summer school at Hong Kong University, and a volunteering project in Taiwan, teaching English to kindergarten children.

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  Florian Dahlhausen

  MSc student

  Florian Dahlhausen is a MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute. He is particularly interested in applying computational social science methods to understand human dynamics and collective behaviour through online data.

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  Clémentine Désigaud

  MSc student

  Clémentine Désigaud is an OII MSc student. Prior to joining the OII, she worked on open data and open government policy for the French government. She holds a BA in Social Sciences and a MA in Marketing and Research from Sciences Po Paris (cum laude).

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  Katie Draper

  MSc student

  Katie Draper is an OII MSc Student and Clarendon Scholar with a background in Archaeology and Anthropology (Oxford 2013). She is interested in analyzing online fan groups and the extent to which online Fan Activism translates to offline political action.

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  Yujie Duan

  MSc student

  Yujie Duan holds a Bachelor’s degree in public health from Peking University. She is interested in how to use the internet to improve health system, health care and health behavior.

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  Marc-Aurèle Ferracci

  MSc student

  At the OII, Marc-Aurèle will draw upon his exposure to economics, digital humanities, and cultural theory to develop critical sociological tools to address the challenge of inequality in the context of the digital.

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  Lindsay Ferris

  MSc student

  Prior to the OII, Lindsay worked with several international and US-based organizations working to solve social problems through the use of technology and data. She has a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Virginia.

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  Susie Forbath

  MSc student

  Susie is a master’s student interested in the interplay between design, policy, and users. Prior to studying at the OII, she worked as a user experience designer in the healthcare industry and earned a B.A. from Cornell University.

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  Chenzhuo Gong

  MSc student

  Chenzhuo Gong is a MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Chenzhuo holds a LL.B. in International Politics from Fudan University. His research interest lies in examining the booming influence of social media in public diplomacy.

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  Olivia Gonzalez

  MSc student

  Olivia graduated from New York University in 2013 and received her law degree from Fordham Law School in 2016. She is primarily interested in cyber security law and policy.

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  Magdalena Góralska

  MSc student (Part Time)

  Magdalena (Mania) is a Polish cultural anthropologist, research assistant at the Koźmiński University in Warsaw, a MSc student at the OII. Her research interests include anthropology of the Internet, STS, expert knowledge production and online activism.

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  Robert Gorwa

  MSc student

  Robert studies the relationship between technology and various International Relations phenomena. He’s particularly interested in how the internet has affected the ways in which states interact with each other and with their own populations.

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  Love Hedman

  MSc student

  Love Hedman is a MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute. He has a background in Experimental Pscyhology and is interested in cognitive immersion into virtual environments, in particular online PC games.

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  Matthew Honeyman

  MSc student

  Matthew has research interests in the relationship between health, technology and public services. He is on a sabbatical from the policy team at The King's Fund, a UK-based health and social care think tank. He holds a BA in PPE from Oxford.

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  Kabeleka Kabeleka

  MSc student

  Kabeleka Kabeleka recently completed a Master’s Degree in Computer Science at Oxford Brookes University in 2016. In 2013, Kabeleka earned his BSC in Computer Science with Distinction in The Copperbelt University’s class of 2013.

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  Adam Knight

  MSc student (Part Time)

  Adam is a part time MSc student at the OII.

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  Olga Kokoulina

  MSc student (Part Time)

  Olga’s interests focus on the interface between Law and Technology. She is presently completing her PhD at the Law Faculty, Copenhagen University on the subject of standards and patents. She has an LL.M. in European Business Law and a Bachelor in Law.

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  Filbert Lee

  MSc student

  Filbert is interested in IT adoption, online political participation in the social media, and the dark side of the internet.

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  Claire Leibowicz

  MSc student

  Claire Leibowicz is a Clarendon Scholar. She is interested in cybertrust, human-robot interaction, and how IoT will influence organizational behavior/general human cognition. Claire received her BA in Psychology and Computer Science from Harvard.

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  Lily McElwee

  MSc student

  Lily is interested in Big data politics, partisan uses for big data, and voter tagging.

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  Jazza McMillan-Clenaghan

  MSc student (Part Time)

  Jazza McMillan-Clenaghan is a part time MSc student at the OII.

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  Bill Mulligan

  MSc student

  Bill holds a BS in Biochemistry (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016) where he researched developmental biology. He is interested how non textual communication shapes the scientific story.

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  Anisha Nadkarni

  MSc student

  Anisha is a sociologist by background. She is interested in the cultural norms surrounding online sharing and social network use, as well as the role of personal communication technologies in changing practices of intimacy in modern couple relationships.

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  Lisa-Maria Neudert

  MSc student

  Selected as Fulbright Scholar Lisa-Maria studied Digital Communication & Tech at Georgetown University, National University of Singapore and Ludwig-Maximilians-University. She is interested in (conversational) bots, AI and digital publishing.

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  Natalie Nzeyimana

  MSc student - Part Time

  Natalie Nzeyimana is interested in understanding whether we can create culturally relative artificial intelligence. Before joining the OII, she worked at ARM and Nuanced. She holds a BA in Philosophy and Politics from the University of Manchester.

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  Adena Peckler

  MSc student

  Prior to attending the OII, Adena received a dual BA at the George Washington University in both Asian Studies and International Affairs. Her previous work has traced historic activism in South Korea to present online movements.

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  Edward Percarpio

  MSc student

  Before joining the OII, Edward worked in international trade consulting in Brussels and holds a BS in International History from Georgetown University. His current research focuses on harmonizing philosophies of privacy and architectures of surveillance.

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  Léonie Rivière

  MSc student

  Léonie is a full time MSc Student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Prior to joining the OII, she was involved in different startups and completed a BA in Political Science and Communications at Ludwig-Maximilians-University.

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  Katherine Rother

  MSc student

  Katherine graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with degrees in Anthropology and French & Francophone Interdisciplinary Studies. Her research interests include digital communications, the intersections between life online and offline, and online identity.

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  Cory Salveson

  MSc student

  Cory holds a B.S. in Multidisciplinary Studies and has worked in IT for learning and knowledge management systems. He's interested in how themes of power, social mobility, and ethics interact with shifts in knowledge production and education online.

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  Hendrik Schriefer

  MSc student

  Hendrik is an OII MSc student and an entrepreneur. He has co-founded tech startups and holds a BSc in psychology. He is interested in researching human emotions in a digital environment from an academic and a business perspective.

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  Felix Simon

  MSc student

  Felix holds a BA in Film- and Media Studies (Goethe-University) and worked as a journalist for news organisations both in Germany and abroad. He is interested in the transformation of online journalism, digital culture, and the future of the web.

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  Adam Turowski

  MSc student (Part Time)

  Adam is a part time MSc student at the OII.

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  Amber Westerholm-Smyth

  MSc student (Part Time)

  Amber Westerholm-Smyth graduated in 2012 from Hertford College, University of Oxford where she studied Geography. Her research interests include privacy and information sharing, information control, and nudge theory.

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  Aiste Zalepuga

  MSc student

  Aiste is interested in the dynamics of social networks in political participation. Her American Lithuanian background inspired her startup digital platforms & research in the role of social media in the reconstruction of pre-Soviet memory of the Baltic.

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  Mark Zaleski

  MSc student (Part Time)

  Mark Zaleski is a Partner with BCG Digital Ventures. He has a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Oxford. From 2000, Mark was CEO for QXL ricardo plc (QXL.L), a leader of online consumer trading platforms.

Alumni

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  Dr Nesrine Abdel-Sattar

  DPhil Alumna

  Nesrine Abdel-Sattar is an OII DPhil alumna. She has interests in online news, news convergence, media effects, and reception of online news.

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  Eve Ahearn

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Public People: Release and Protection of Government Open Data in the US and the UK Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2015

• Fatema Akbar

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: User engagement and progression in open online 'micro lessons': An analysis of learners’ log data Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Eynon Completed: 2015

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  Andrea Alarcon

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Multilingual Twitter users: audience design, context collapse and bridging between language spheres Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo Completed: 2013

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  Dr Maja Andjelkovic

  DPhil Alumna

  Maja Andjelkovic is an OII DPhil alumna. She has interests in the potential of entrepreneurship and technology to contribute to economic, environmental and social sustainability.

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  Alexander Andresian

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Feeling ‘Snowed In’ After Snowden The Potential Chilling Effects of Government Surveillance Schemes on the Online Behaviour of British Muslims Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2015

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  Andre Avorio

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Technology Appropriation: A Study of the 'Open Educational Resources' Movement in Brazil Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2012

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  Deniz Duru Aydin

  MSc Alumna

  Deniz Duru Aydin is an OII MSc student, interested in analyzing internet censorship as well as user behaviour to circumvent such controls. Before coming to the OII, she completed her B.A. at New York University and worked for the global NGO Access Now.

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  Laird Barret

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Institutional, Cultural and Design Factors Influencing Coursework-related iPad Use by Medical Students Supervisor: Dr Eric T. Meyer Completed: 2012

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  Ilinca Barsan

  MSc Alumna

  Ilinca Barsan is an OII MSc student.

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  Alexander Bassmanow

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: The relationship between Online Friendship Count and Dyadic Personality Assessment Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2013

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  Aditya Basu

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: How Alters Affect Impression Management on Online Social Networks: Are Your Facebook Friends the Problem? Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2012

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  Caroline Baylon

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: The Cybercrime Pandemic in Eastern Europe-Identifying the Root Causes Supervisor: Dr Ian Brown Completed: 2011

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  Wes Beaver

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Social Media’s Dialogic Effect and Non-Profit Organizations Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Bright Completed: 2014

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  Therese-Heather Belen

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Managing Information-sharing Behaviours in Public-by-default Online Social Networks Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2010

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  Shannon Bell

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Your post changed my opinion…said no one ever?: A qualitative study of Californian Facebook users and the impact of political posts Supervisor: Professor Helen Margetts Completed: 2015

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  Andrew Berkley

  MSc Alumnus

  Andrew Berkley is an OII MSc student.

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  Dr Florian Bersier

  DPhil Alumnus

  Florian Bersier was a DPhil candidate at the OII, working in the interplay between economics and complex systems. His thesis focused on the design of online reputation systems.

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  Shira Naomi Bick

  MSc Alumna

  Naomi is interested in online publishing and currently works as a Research Assistant at the Reuters Institute of Journalism. Prior to joining the OII, she won a News and Documentary Emmy Award for her work as a producer with PBS: FRONTLINE/World.

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  Eve Binder

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Can Gaming Inspire Giving? A Controlled Experiment on the Effectiveness of Gamification as a Fundraising Tool Supervisor: Dr Vili Lehdonvirta Completed: 2015

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  Andreas Birkbak

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Crystallizations in the Blizzard: When improvised colloboration freezes into Facebook groups Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2011

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  Jeremy Bowles

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: The Political Economy of Conflict, Cooperation and Consensus in IP Address Governance Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2013

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  Janine Braithwaite

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: The UK Internet Filtering Regime: Trends in Enforcement and Attitude Supervisor: Dr Joss Wright Completed: 2012

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  Sven Braun

  MSc Alumnus

  Sven Braun is an OII MSc student.

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  Andrew Bulovsky

  MSc Alumnus

  Selected as a Marshall Scholar, Andrew holds a BA in Political Science & Communication (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison, 2014) and an MSc in Comparative Politics (LSE, 2015). He's worked for two MPs in the British House of Commons and is interested in digital political communication.

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  Wensie Caillet

  MSc Alumna

  Wensie Caillet is an OII MSc student. She has a keen interest in education, knowledge sharing, and ICTs and their impact in developing areas, most notably rural China.

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  Corinne Cath

  DPhil student

  Corinne is an OII DPhil student interested in internet governance, internet fragmentation, multistakeholder model of internet governance, governance of the internet’s technical infrastructure, internet standard setting bodies (IEEE, IETF, W3C etc.).

  email: corinne.cath@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Atilla Cevik

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: The Effects of Politics on Information-Selection Modes Online: A Typology of Exposure and Avoidance in High-Choice Media Enviromnents Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Bright Completed: 2015

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  Alison Cies

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: The Digital Dilemma: Gender, Empowerment, and the Global Divide in ICT Usage Supervisor: Dr Monica Bulger Completed: 2012

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  Dr Amanda Clarke

  DPhil Alumna

  Amanda Clarke is an OII DPhil alumna. Her DPhil research examined the tension between emerging models of online government-citizen engagement and the tenets and practices of public sector bureaucracies.

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  Dr Alissa Cooper

  DPhil Alumna

  Alissa Cooper is a doctoral alumna of the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research is about how country-specific regulatory factors and industry paradigms impact Internet engineering.

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  Josh Cowls

  MSc Alumnus

  Josh Cowls works on the Accessing and Using Big Data to Advance Social Science Knowledge project, having previously completed an MSc at the OII.

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  Quentin Cregan

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Where is the Internet? : Correlating domain name and IP allocations with geospatial and socio-economic data. Supervisor: Dr Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2010

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  Judith Dada

  MSc Alumna

  Judith Dada is an OII MSc student.

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  George Dallas

  MSc Alumnus

  George Dallas is an OII MSc student and is interested in privacy and security on the internet.

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  Tim Davies

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: The Potential of Open Government Data as a Tool in Democratic Engagement and Reform of Public Cervices: The Case of Data.gov.uk Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Eynon Completed: 2010

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  Dr Ulrike Deetjen

  Research Associate and DPhil Alumna

  Ulrike Deetjen (née Rauer) is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute researching the influence of the Internet on healthcare provision and health outcomes.

  email: ulrike.deetjen@oxfordalumni.org

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  Quirijn Den Rooijen

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: I Predict a Riot? Identifying Offline Spatiotemporally Bound Group Behaviour via Automated Speech Act Classification of Twitter Data Supervisor: Dr Joss Wright Completed: 2012

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  Alec Dent

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Does the quality of an item description on ebay influence price? Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2011

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  Eva Didier

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Grieving Online Together: a change in the mourning process and paradigm? Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2011

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  Katherine Dransfield

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Seeing War through Social Media: Updating Virilio Supervisor: Dr Joss Wright Completed: 2013

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  Dr Elizabeth Dubois

  DPhil Alumna

  Elizabeth Dubois is an OII DPhil alumna. Her research focuses on the role of personal influence in political communication networks.

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  Stefanie Duguay

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Facebook as a decontextulaized environment: Young People's experience of navigating LGBTQ identities on a social networking site Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Eynon Completed: 2013

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  Lilas Duvernois-Guevara

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: How do mobile location-based games shape movement patterns in an urban environment? Supervisor: Dr Vili Lehdonvirta Completed: 2014

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  Dr Tobias Escher

  DPhil Alumnus

  Tobias Escher has interests in citizen-government relationships online (eParticipation, eGovernment), in political representation as well as e-Social Science methods. He has a background in Communication Studies, Computer Science and Politics.

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  Rebecca Fallon

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Guns and Roses: Online Imagery as Jihadi Particpation for Female ISIS Supporters Supervisor: Dr Victoria Nash Completed: 2015

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  Asha Fereydouni

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Wearable health-tracking technologies: motivations of existing users and barriers to mass-adoption Supervisor: Dr William Dutton Completed: 2014

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  Joao Fiadeiro

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Wikipedia as a co-authorship commmunity: exploring the dynamics of colloboration and article quality Supervisor: Dr Taha Yasseri Completed: 2013

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  Ndakuna Fonso Amidou

  MSc Alumnus

  Ndakuna Fonso Amidou is an OII MSc student.

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  Dr Heather Ford

  DPhil Alumna

  Heather Ford is a DPhil alumna who studies how Wikipedians write history as it happens. Her research covers online collaboration, conflict, historiography, alternative media, the Arab Spring and intellectual property rights.

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  Nicolas Friederici

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  Nicolas studies digital entrepreneurship and collaborative innovation in challenging environments, such as low-income and post-conflict countries in Africa.

  email: nicolas.friederici@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Alexander Furnas

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: You Are Who You Follow?: Semantic Simlarity of Political Partisan's Ego-Networks on Twitter Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon Completed: 2012

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  Devin Gaffney

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Determining the Importance of Geography On Twitter Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2012

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  Danit Gal

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Encrypted Jihad: Assessment, Implications and Associated Risks”. Supervisor: Dr Joss Wright Completed: 2015

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  Graham Gannon

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Friends like me: Personality and ‘like’ behaviour on Facebook Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2012

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  Julian Gilson

  MSc Alumnus

  Julian is interested in computational social science and forecasting methods. In his research he is developing modelling techniques that produce more accurate and granular predictions of event outcomes.

  email: julian.gilson@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Bryce Goodman

  Research Associate and MSc Alumnus

  Bryce Goodman works at the intersection of philosophy, technology and entrepreneurship. His research at the OII is focused on the economic, legal and ethical aspects of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

  email: bwgoodman@gmail.com

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  Will Granger

  MSc Alumnus

  Will Granger is an OII MSc student. He is interested in ethical questions posed by the spread of the Internet, such as the clash between the usefulness of Big Data and concerns over personal privacy.

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  Bryn Griffiths

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Towards a rational model of information revelation online Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2014

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  Marianna Griva

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Flaming on YouTube: The Role of Anonymity, Social Norms and Gender Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon Completed: 2013

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  Dr Darja Groselj

  DPhil Alumna

  Darja Groselj is a DPhil alumna. Her thesis examined the dynamics of information exchange in virtual communities.

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  Wojciech Gryc

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Influence and Network Evolution in the Political Blogosphere Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon Completed: 2010

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  Tania Gupta

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Transnational Identity Formation and Inter-personal Communication amongst Immigrant Groups in the Gulf Arab States Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2014

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  Dr Fadhila Haeri Mazanderani

  DPhil Alumna

  Fadhila Mazanderani was a DPhil candidate at the OII where her work focused on the health information seeking practices of people living with HIV / Aids and the relationship between access to information, patient empowerment and expertise.

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  Rasmus Hagen

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Sitting on a Filter Bubble: An Examination of Fragmentation in Search Engine Results Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2012

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  Dr Scott A. Hale

  Senior Data Scientist

  Scott A. Hale is a Senior Data Scientist analysing large-scale data using techniques from computer science and other fields to answer social science questions. He has particular interests in human-computer interaction, collective action, and bilingualism.

  email: scott.hale@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Frank Hangler

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Citizen Participation in Constructing the Smart City Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo Completed: 2014

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  Guangyue He

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Copyright Licensing and the Translation of Scholarly Texts: The Impact of Creative Commons Licensing on English-Chinese Translations Supervisor: Professor Bill Dutton Completed: 2010

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  Paul Hermann

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Twitter and Movie Sales Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2010

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  Dr Isis Hjorth

  Researcher

  Isis is a cultural sociologist focusing on emerging practices associated with networked technologies. She is currently researching microwork and virtual production networks in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.

  email: isis.hjorth@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 612775

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  Anna Hopper

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: How Does Political Ideology Shape Attitudes Toward Internet Policy Supervisor: Dr Vicki Nash Completed: 2012

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  Charles Howell

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: The Burden of Interconnectedness: A Network Approach to Cross Pressures and Political Particpation Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Bright Completed: 2015

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  Ayman Idrissi

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Purchasing phone plans: the behavioural effects of using price comparison sites Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2013

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  Jing Jing

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: The Diffusion Information and Behaviour on Social Network Site: A Study of Event Recommendation and Participation on douban.com Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2012

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  Hilary Johnson

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Consumer Empowerment: An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Online Information Provision, Voice & Exit, and Consumer Power Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Eynon Completed: 2012

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  Greg Johnson

  MSc Alumnus

  Greg Johnson is a master's student interested in strategies to convert lurkers on social media and community-oriented platforms into active participants. Before joining the OII, Greg managed e-government platforms at the university and city level.

  email: gregory.johnson@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Samuel Johnston

  MSc Alumnus

  Samuel Johnston is an OII MSc student.

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  Amba Kak

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Unbundling the internet: Locating the user's voice in the debate on zero-rating in India Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2015

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  Frederike Kaltheuner

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Web archiving the Eqyptian revolution:A qualitative study on the ephemerality and endurance of digital content Supervisor: Dr Eric Meyer Completed: 2013

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  Ai Kang

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: The Collective Cyberbullying on Sina Weibo Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Bright Completed: 2014

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  Salone Kapur

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Dictatorship Gone Digital: How Authoritarian Regimes are Consolidating their Power in the Internet Age Supervisor: Professor Helen Margetts Completed: 2011

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  Elizabeth Kaufer

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Do Looks Matter? The Effect of Survey Design on Data Quality in Academic Studies on Amazon Mechanical Turk Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2015

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  Justin Kempley

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Patient trust and interaction with online self-diagnosis tools: a comparative study Supervisor: Dr Joss Wright Completed: 2014

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  Hae Na Kim

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: The Relationship betwenn Quality of Collaboration Knowledge and Authorship: A Comparative Case Study of Google Knol vs. Wikipedia Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon Completed: 2011

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  Sylwia Kowalczuk

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Civic Engagement in Poland: Case Study of the 'Zwolnic Kuzniara' e-tactic Supervisor: Professor Bill Dutton Completed: 2013

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  Saumya Krishna

  MSc Alumna

  Saumya Krishna is an OII MSc student.

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  Gillian Langor

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: The Role of Online Particpation in Engineers Without Borders: Relating data-driven social roles to actual and perceived influence online Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2011

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  Francesco Lanzoni

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Context Collapse or Networked Audience? The interaction between self-presentation and social network structures among Facebook users". Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2015

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  Marina Laube

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Changing mobility through health information on the mobile Internet Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2012

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  Daniel Laverick

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: A Critical Review of Social Scientific Papers Regarding Twitter: Typologies Insights, and the Purposes of Social Scientific Research Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2012

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  Ginette Law

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Internet Accessibility and Use through Mobile Phone Initiatives for Rural and Low Income Populations in Africa Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2010

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  Su Min Lee

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Political participation in non-political online communities: The role of sense of community in fostering political participation Supervisor: Dr Vili Lehdonvirta Completed: 2014

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  Sarah Lefkowith

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Credibility and Crisis in Semi-Anonymous Communities Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Bright Completed: 2014

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  Chun (Raphael) Leung

  MSc Alumnus

  Chun (Raphael) Leung is an OII MSc student.

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  Zachary Levine

  MSc Alumnus

  Zachary Levine is an OII MSc student.

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  Rebecca Lewis

  MSc Alumna

  Becca holds a BA in Film Studies from Columbia University and has since worked in social media analytics at the company Crimson Hexagon. She is interested in collective action online and digital media as it relates to gender, race, and sexuality.

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  Dr Han-Teng Liao

  DPhil Alumnus

  Han-Teng Liao is a student of various disciplines whose research aims to reconsider the role of keywords (sociolinguistics) and hyperlinks (webometrics) in shaping groups (governance) as bearers of ideas (political communications).

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  Isabella Litke

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: The rhetorical constructions of Citizenship Online: A case study of the Obama Administration's Open Government Intiative Supervisor: Dr Victoria Nash Completed: 2013

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  Xinxin Long

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: How Chinese foreign students at UK negotiate their transnational identities on different social networking websites Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2014

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  Amy Longdon

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: #bbcqt: The Increasingly Social Methods of Online Communication and Interaction with Regards to the BBC's Question Time Supervisor: Dr Vicki Nash Completed: 2012

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  Dr Max Loubser

  DPhil Alumnus

  Max Loubser is a DPhil student at the OII and Magdalen College. His thesis research is on governance in peer production projects with a focus on Wikipedia.

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  Liane Lovitt

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Student Data Provacy Protection in Educational Technology: Influence of Public Discourse on Policy Enactment and Implementation Supervisor: Dr Victoria Nash Completed: 2015

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  Henning Lueke

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: The Viability of non-monetary incentive systmes viable for profit-seeking, non-chartiable crowdsourcing projects Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo Completed: 2011

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  Anna Lutz

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: The Story You Tell Yourself: Self-Presentation in Online Support Groups Supervisor: Dr Kathryn Eccles Completed: 2015

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  Leonard Mack

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Innovation in Open Data - A comparative analysis of what makes Open Data thrive Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2014

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  Dr Christine Madsen

  DPhil Alumna

  Christine Madsen is a librarian and academic whose research aims to re-centre libraries at the heart of all the disciplines, and re-focus the work of librarians on creating a space for the transformation of information into knowledge.

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  Lofred Madzou

  MSc Alumnus

  Lofred’s interests lie at the intersection of technology, philosophy and entrepreneurship. Before coming to the OII, he completed his MSc at the University of Montreal (Summa Cum Laude), worked at the European Commission and founded the Start-up Propind.

  email: lofred.madzou@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Momin Malik

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Networks of collaboration and field emergence in 'Internet Studies' Supervisor: Dr Eric T. Meyer Completed: 2012

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  Ellie Marshall

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: From Variable to Linkable: How digital traces identify in the disaibility community in Britain Supervisor: Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen Completed: 2015

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  Jessica Mason

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Mixed Methods Investigation of diability, demography, and Internet Use Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2015

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  Lauren McKarus

  MSc Alumna

  Lauren McKarus is an OII MSc student.

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  Amy McLeod

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Developing social media practices: How a community-based initative in Birmingham supports online particpation Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Eynon Completed: 2012

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  Gemma McNeil-Walsh

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Out of Africa? Mapping online news coverage of the Ebola epidemic 2014-15 Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2015

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  Sophie Melville

  MSc student

  Sophie Melville is a MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute. She is interested in the intersection between gender, identity and technology, and is currently undertaking the role of Research Assistant on the Semantic Map of Sexism: Topic Modelling of the Everyday Sexism Content project.

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  Ashwin Menon

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Aadhar: Illison or Panacea: A design analysis of the Unique ID system in India and its potential societal impact Supervisor: Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen Completed: 2015

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  Elisabeth Michaels

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Citations Among Newspapers and Blogs in the 2008 U.S. Election Cycle Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon Completed: 2010

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  Allison Mishkin

  DPhil Student and MSc Alumna

  Allison is a DPhil student focused on technology and child development. Her research interests include STEM education, the influence of home, school, and social environments unto technology outcomes, women in STEM, and how to maximize positive outcomes.

  email: allison.mishkin@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Yonatan Moskowitz

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: A Theoretical Model of Externalities in Anonymity Decisions Supervisor: Dr Ian Brown Completed: 2012

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  Tim Muntinga

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Home Sapiens Inquisitio: Trust in the Search Engine or the Result Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2014

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  Olga Musayev

  MSc Alumna

  Olga Musayev is an OII MSc student and is interested in testing the limits of prediction and building anti-discrimination software.

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  Caitlin Myles

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: The amplification of inequality and the case of crowd mapping sexual violence Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo Completed: 2014

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  Poonnama Narkkitikul

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: You Will When You Believe: How Perceptions of Website Content Pwnership Affect Responsiveness and Formality in the Thai Mobile-Telecommunications Industry Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2011

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  David Neale

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003: obscenity, 'basic standards' and freedom of expression online Supervisor: Dr Vicki Nash Completed: 2011

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  Nicole Ng

  MSc Alumna

  Nicole was a government lobbyist and qualitative consumer researcher in South East Asia, with a History BA from Columbia U. She's interested in information diets of elites, the politics in code, and novel user behaviors in mobile-first regions.

  email: xin.ng@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Dang Nguyen

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Internet-based humour as civil resistance in authoritarian regimes Supervisor: Dr Vili Lehdonvirta Completed: 2015

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  Wei-Feng Ni

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: The Role of Social Media in Covering Developing Countries: The Case of Foreign Correspondents in China Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2010

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  Molly Norris

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Application of Social Network Analysis (SNA) to the U.S. List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2012

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  Dr Roy Nyberg

  DPhil Alumnus

  Roy Nyberg is an OII DPhil student. He has interests in the area of organizational theory and technological innovation.

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  Carl Öhman

  MSc Alumnus

  Carl Öhman is an OII MSc student.

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  Juan Ortiz Frueler

  MSc Alumnus

  Before joining the OII, Juan was an activist, member of an Argentinian human rights NGO. With a degree in Law (Di Tella, 2010) and a Masters in Public Policy (Oxford, 2015), he is interested in the impact of the Internet on politics and inequality.

  email: juan.ortiz@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Dr Chrysanthi Papoutsi

  DPhil Alumna

  Chrysanthi Papoutsi has a background in Management Science and Information Systems. Her current work focuses on information privacy perceptions and practices of health and IT professionals in HIV clinics.

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  Jon Penney

  Dhil Alumnus

  Jon Penney is an OII DPhil alumnus. His research interests include public law, intellectual property, and technology law, both separately and where these areas intersect.

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  Ross Petchler

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Cheap talk in online crowdsourcing contests Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2013

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  Umika Pidaparthy

  MSc Alumna

  Umika Pidaparthy is an MSc student. She has worked as an online producer for Al Jazeera English and CNN. She has a BA in Sociology and Journalism from Emory University and is interested in the interactions between traditional news media and social networks.

  email: umika.pidaparthy@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Olivia Pierce

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Mapping and understanding the geography of Flickr geotaggers Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2011

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  Rachel Pollack

  MSc Alumna

  Rachel is interested in the effects of communications surveillance on free expression.

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  Dr Lucy Power

  DPhil Alumna

  Lucy Power examines the shifting boundaries of the modern life-science laboratory. Her thesis focused on determining the impact of online tools on the research practices of life scientists.

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  Daniel Elisha Rachovitsky

  MSc Alumnus

  Daniel Elisha Rachovitsky is an OII MSc student.

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  Amaru Villanueva Rance

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Gaze-Translucency in Computer-Mediated Interactions Subtitle: Ways of seeing, being seen, and being seen to be seeing online Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2010

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  Dr Bianca Reisdorf

  DPhil Alumna

  Bianca Reisdorf holds a Diploma in Sociology (2008) from Bielefeld University, Germany. She has interests in media sociology (particularly new media) and social stratification, and has worked for public relations agencies and the German print media.

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  Jessica Richman

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Donor Motivation and Recipient Selection in Online Philanthropy: The Case Study of Kiva.org Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2010

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  Dr Wolf Richter

  DPhil Alumnus

  Wolf Richter is researching the potential role of Social Entrepreneurship in addressing the market failure in digital goods. His research benefits from his dual background in IP Law and Computer Sciences and his newly developed passion for China.

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  Felix Rieseberg

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Live and in Real-Time': How temporal sorting influences the perceptionof information relevance Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2011

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  Julia Rone

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Anonymous Bulgaria: Hacking Politics Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2013

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  Michael Rosenbloom

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: The SOPA Protests: A case study on Internet Activism Supervisor: Professor Bill Dutton Completed: 2013

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  Radu Rovin

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: What Makes an Online Game a Successful Learning Application? A Cross-Application Analysis Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo Completed: 2012

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  Mor Rubinstein

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Hackers, Advocates and Politicians: Civic Society Groups and their role in open Government Data Supervisor: Dr Eric Meyer Completed: 2014

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  Natalie Saltiel

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Digital Witness and Trust in Interpersonal Relationships Supervisor: Dr Andy Przybylski Completed: 2015

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  Anna Samoilenko

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: A quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics Supervisor: Dr Taha Yasseri Completed: 2013

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  Manuel Schäffer

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Facebook's Timeline: managing the self in a new online exhibition space Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2012

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  Rebecca Schild

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: (Re)viewing India's UID Inititative: Towards a Theory of e-Governance, Aesthetics and Change Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2013

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  Odysseas Sclavounis

  DPhil student

  Odysseas Sclavounis is an OII DPhil student.

  email: odysseas.sclavounis@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Amrita Sengupta

  MSc Alumna

  Amrita Sengupta is an OII MSc student.

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  Dirgayuza Setiawan

  MSc Alumnus

  Yuza is a prolific author of 11 books on technology, and a book on political philosophy. He is at the OII to make the Internet safer and better for children in Indonesia, and around the world.

  email: dirgayuza.setiawan@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Weiwei Shen

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Collectivism, Individualism and Privacy Online: A Cross-national Study of Internet Users' Attitudes and Behaviours Supervisor: Professor William Dutton Completed: 2011

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  Kate Sim

  DPhil student

  Kate Sim is an OII DPhil student.

  email: kate.sim@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Thain Simon

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: MOOCs For a fee: using signature track to examine student engagement, persistence, and performace on Coursera Supervisor: Dr Cristobal Cobo Completed: 2013

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  David Peter Simon

  Research Assistant, MSc Alumnus

  David Peter Simon is an ethnographer assisting the Microwork and Virtual Production Networks project funded by the IDRC and led by investigators Prof Mark Graham and Dr Vili Lehdonvirta.

  email: david.simon@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Cohen Simpson

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Framing Collective Action: Online Communication and the Agency of Social Movements Supervisor: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon Completed: 2012

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  Charlotte Smart

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: How are discourses employed in talking about the role of new technological modalities in connectivity? Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2015

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  Anuj Srivas

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Rural Information Seeking Patterns: A Study of Farming and Fishing Communities in South India Supervisor: Dr Eric Meyer Completed: 2015

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  Amanda Summers-Plotno

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Using Interviews to study social media adoption: The Case of US Congress and the Non-Use of Twitter Supervisor: Dr Monica Bulger Completed: 2012

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  Evan Szablowski

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Connected Conflict: Crowdsourced Intelligence in Networked Warfare Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2014

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  John Ternovski

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Measuring Social Influence in an Activist Network through a large-scale field experiment Supervisor: Dr Andy Przybylski Completed: 2014

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  Dr Marcelo Thompson

  DPhil Alumnus

  Marcelo Thompson was a DPhil candidate at the OII, working in the interplay between technology law and political theory. His thesis situated the legal problem of technological neutrality within the neutrality-perfectionism debate in politics.

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  Katherine Tolentino

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: The Management of Identity and Privacy in Sex Worker Blogs Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2012

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  Daniel Toth

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Verbal-Nonverbal Comment Dynamics on YouTube Supervisor: Dr Ian Brown Completed: 2013

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  Russell Verbeeten

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Growth and Behaviour in Peer-to-Peer Car-Sharing Supervisor: Dr Ian Brown Completed: 2012

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  Gili Vidan

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Strength in Numbers, Trust in Protocols: The Bitcoin Ethos and the Delegation of Governance to New Technocrats Supervisor: Professor Luciano Floridi Completed: 2014

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  Dr Daniel Villar-Onrubia

  DPhil Alumnus

  Daniel Villar Onrubia is an OII DPhil student researching open educational initiatives and practices in the Higher Education sector.

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  Sandra Wachter

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Sarcasm Detection on the Internet: Offensive and Insulting Language on the Social Web and the Limits to Freedom of Expression and the Right to Privacy Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2015

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  Lauren Wagner

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Unpacking Perceived Social Support Online Supervisor: Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen Completed: 2011

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  Sara Marie Watson

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Living with Data: Personal Data Interests of the Quantified Self Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2013

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  David Watson

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Crowdsourced Science: Sociotechnical Epistemology in the e-Research Paradigm Supervisor: Professor Luciano Floridi Completed: 2015

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  Adam Webb

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: The Political Economy of Online Search Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2013

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  Joseph Weir

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Flattening the world': dialogue and rhetoric in the use of Twitter by Paul Kagame and the Rwandan government Supervisor: Dr Laura Elizabeth Mann Completed: 2012

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  Anika Weiss

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Factors influencing the parental restrictions on children's Intranet Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2011

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  Richard Wilkinson

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: The Digital Car: Consumer Provacy and Market Structure in the Age of Big Data Supervisor: Dr Ian Brown Completed: 2013

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  Citt Williams

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Tracing the socio-technical histories of Northern Indigenous Australian relationships to environmental knowledge. Supervisor: Dr Mark Graham Completed: 2014

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  Lena Wong

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: The 4 C's: How YouTube is Changing the Production of Culture through Cost, Choice, Colloboration and Cotent Supervisor: Dr Grant Blank Completed: 2011

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  Ivory Wu

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Self-Branding on Two-sided e-market: An Alalysis of Economic & Social Elements in Airbrb Property Profiles Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2015

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  Fan Yang

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Social Media Empowerment: A cast study of Foxconn Workers Using 'Weibo' Supervisor: Dr Joss Wright Completed: 2013

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  Ece Yurual

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Evaluating a Model of Multidimensional Trust Formation for Online Exchanges in Business-to-Consumer Commerce: The Case of Turkey Supervisor: Dr Greg Taylor Completed: 2011

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  Zarino Zappia

  MSc Alumnus

  Thesis: Partcipation, Power and Provenance: Mapping Information Flows in Opem Data Development Supervisor: Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Completed: 2011

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  Jing Zeng

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Can micro-blog based discussion contribute to politic deliberation in China?: A case study of deputies' interaction with the public on microblogs during the 2013 National People's Congress. Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2013

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  Qichen Zhang

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Reblog: Conceptualizing hypermedia and emerging culture of sigital curation Supervisor: Dr Victoria Nash Completed: 2013

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  Jennie Zhang

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Matchmaking in the Digital Age: A Quantitative Analysis of Communication Patterns Between Mobile Dating Users. Supervisor: Dr Taha Yasseri Completed: 2015

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  Jia Li Zhao

  MSc Alumna

  Jia Li Zhao is an OII MSc student.

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  Yan Zhou

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: A cross-cultural comparison of online self-presentation Supervisor: Dr Bernie Hogan Completed: 2015

Research Associates

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  Dr Monica Bulger

  Research Associate

  Dr. Monica Bulger recently completed a Research Fellowship at the Oxford Internet Institute and is currently a consultant on child protection and digital media literacy for multi-national organisations including UNICEF and the BBC.

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  Professor Alexandre Caldas

  Research Associate

  Alexandre Caldas is Chief of Country Outreach, Technology and Innovation Branch at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), a Director position in the United Nations Organization. He is a Professor of Science and Technology Policy.

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  Claudio Calvino

  Research Associate

  Claudio Calvino's main research interests cover political and cultural geography, GIS and more recently the harnessing of Volunteered Geographic Information and Citizen Science.

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  Dr Cristobal Cobo

  Research Associate

  Cristobal Cobo coordinates research on innovation, open knowledge initiatives and future of learning. Currently he works on Networks of Excellence on Internet Science and OportUnidad, both project founded by European Commission.

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  Professor Stephen Coleman

  Research Associate

  Stephen Coleman is Professor of Political Communication at Leeds University. At the OII he worked on the adaptation of representative institutions in the digital age, and the development of spaces for public democratic deliberation.

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  Dr Chris Davies

  Research Associate

  Chris Davies runs the MSc in e-Learning at the Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford. His research interests have included literacy development, writing in the workplace and educational uses of ICTs.

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  Dr Stefano De Sabbata

  Research Associate

  Stefano De Sabbata's research focuses on Internet and information geographies, as well as on geographic and mobile information retrieval.

  email: s.desabbata@leicester.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 612332

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  Dr Ulrike Deetjen

  Research Associate and DPhil Alumna

  Ulrike Deetjen (née Rauer) is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute researching the influence of the Internet on healthcare provision and health outcomes.

  email: ulrike.deetjen@oxfordalumni.org

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  Professor William H. Dutton

  Advisory Board Member, Research Associate

  Bill Dutton is the Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy at Michigan State University, where he is Director of the Quello Center. He 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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  Dr Stefan Fafinski

  Research Associate

  Stefan Fafinski specialises in computer misuse, cybercrime and Internet law. His interests include mapping and measuring cybercrime, the criminogenic potential of Internet technologies, their social impact and policy implications for their regulation.

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  Dr Christopher Foster

  Research Associate

  Chris Foster's research focus is on technologies and innovation in developing and emerging markets, with a particular interest on how ICTs can support development of low income groups.

  tel: +44 (0)1865 612776

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  Dr Iginio Gagliardone

  Research Associate

  Iginio Gagliardone is Research Fellow in New Media and Human Rights in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford.

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  Dr Anne Geniets

  Research Associate

  Dr Anne Geniets is a research associate at the OII and at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford.

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  Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon

  Research Associate

  Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon is a sociologist interested in the internet, social networks, and political engagement. Her research uses large-scale data to analyse the structure and content of political discussions, and how interactions evolve over time.

  email: sandra.gonzalezbailon@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287233

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  Bryce Goodman

  Research Associate and MSc Alumnus

  Bryce Goodman works at the intersection of philosophy, technology and entrepreneurship. His research at the OII is focused on the economic, legal and ethical aspects of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

  email: bwgoodman@gmail.com

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  Dr Ellen J. Helsper

  Research Associate

  Ellen Helsper is a Lecturer in Media and Communications at the LSE. At the OII she was responsible for the design, analysis and coordination of the Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS) and World Internet Project (WIP) Surveys.

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  Dr Marina Jirotka

  Research Associate

  Marina Jirotka is a University Lecturer in Requirements, Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford.

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  Dr Aleks Krotoski

  Research Associate

  Dr Aleks Krotoski is a researcher and journalist who writes about and studies technology and interactivity, focusing on the makeup of online relationships, online influence, and information diffusion through the social networks of the Web.

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  Professor Donna Kurtz

  Research Associate

  Donna Kurtz is the Beazley Archivist, Professor of Classical Art, and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University. An art historian, she has interests in classical Greek archaeology and art, and Information Technology and the visual arts.

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  Dr Patrick McSharry

  Research Associate

  Dr Patrick McSharry is Head of Catastrophe Risk Financing at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.

  email: patrick.mcsharry@smithschool.ox.ac.uk

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  Professor Christopher Millard

  Research Associate

  Christopher Millard has extensive experience of advising international businesses on information law. His current research focuses on international privacy regulation, information governance, and the impact of the Internet on privacy.

  email: christopher.millard@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Dr Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

  Research Associate

  Dr Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and an assistant professor of communications at Roskilde University (RUC) in Denmark.

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  Professor John Palfrey

  Research Associate

  John Palfrey is Clinical Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School. His research and teaching is focused on the impact of the Internet on democracy.

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  Dr Alison Powell

  Research Associate

  Alison Powell has interests in in community informatics, Internet policy, peer production, culture and technology, and wireless infrastructure. Her current research focuses on the social and political implications of networked communication.

  email: alison.powell@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287223

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  Professor John Powell

  Research Associate

  John Powell is an academic public health physician and health services researcher with a particular interest in ehealth and connected health.

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  Professor Robert D. Rogers

  Research Associate

  Robert Rogers is Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Recently, he has begun to investigate the neural mechanisms of the cognitive biases that promote problem gambling behaviour.

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  Dr David Souter

  Research Associate

  David works as an expert adviser to United Nations and other organisations on the relationship between information technology, the Internet and public policy, particularly development, environment, governance and rights.

  email: david.souter@runbox.com

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  Dr Damian Tambini

  Research Associate

  Damian Tambini is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), and at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. His research interests include media and telecommunications policy and democratic communication.

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  Professor Mike Thelwall

  Research Associate

  Mike Thelwall is Professor of Information Science and leader of the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group at the University of Wolverhampton. His interests include webometrics, cybermetrics, blogs, Web 2.0, and scientometrics.

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  Dr Arthur Thomas

  Research Associate

  Arthur Thomas is the founder and continues as CEO of Proteus Associates, a consultancy specialising in applications of information technology to the life sciences. His recent work has focused on predictive computational models of biological systems.

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  Professor Anne Trefethen

  Research Associate

  Anne Trefethen is a Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford. Her work in industry and academia focuses on numerical algorithms and software, computational science and high-performance computing.

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  Dr Nir Vulkan

  Research Associate

  Nir Vulkan is a Reader in Business Economics at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. His interests include economics of electronic commerce, economic design, automated trading, automated negotiations, and game theoretical analysis.

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  Dr Ning Wang

  Research Associate, Researcher

  Ning Wang holds a joint position between the OII and Oxford's Mathematical Institute. His work involves in the collection and analysis of a big dataset tracking patterns of communication in online social networks.

  email: ning.wang@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Professor Yorick Wilks

  Research Associate

  Yorick Wilks has interests in artificial intelligence and the computer processing of language, knowledge and belief. His current research focuses on the possibility of software agents having identifiable personalities.

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  Professor Jonathan Zittrain

  Research Associate

  Jonathan Zittrain is a Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. His interests include digital property, privacy, and speech, and the role of private 'middle people' in Internet architecture.

Support Staff

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  Jess Antonio

  Administrative Assistant and PA to Professor Floridi

  Jess is PA to Professor Luciano Floridi, she also manages our satellite offices at 34 and 41 St Giles.

  email: Jessica.antonio@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0) 1865 287015

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  Arthur Bullard

  IT Officer

  Arthur provides first line desktop support for users and is responsible for OII audio and video content production.

  email: help@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287217

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  Tim Davies

  Research Facilitator

  Tim supports the growth and development of research activity in the department. He identifies funding opportunities and works closely with OII faculty and their collaborators to prepare external funding applications.

  email: tim.davies@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 612334

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  Jordan Davies

  Events and Administrative Officer

  Jordan manages and organizes the OII's conferences, seminars, policy forums and other events.

  email: events@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287223

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  Pauline Kinniburgh

  PA to Director, Professor Helen Margetts

  Pauline is PA to Professor Helen Margetts and is the first point of contact for all matters relating to the Director.

  email: director@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 87226

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  Kunika Kono

  Web Manager

  Kunika manages OII web development and information.

  email: web@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287204

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  Laura Maynard

  Graduate Studies Coordinator

  Laura is on maternity leave until June 2017.

  email: teaching@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287222

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  Victoria McDermott

  Graduate Studies Co-Ordinator

  Victoria manages student admissions and records and provides administrative support for the OII’s teaching programmes.

  email: teaching@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287304

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  Karen Mead

  Administrative and Graduate Studies Assistant

  Karen is the first point of contact for all enquirers at the OII. She administers student recruitment and supports the Graduate Studies Co-Ordinator in providing administrative support for the OII’s teaching programmes.

  email: teaching@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287210

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  Duncan Passey

  Finance Officer

  Duncan is responsible for the day to day financial management of the department.

  email: finance@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287216

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  Ornella Sciuto

  Personnel Officer

  Ornella administers staff recruitment and personnel records and provides support for OII’s visitors programme.

  email: recruit@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865287011

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  Emily Shipway

  Head of Administration and Finance

  Emily is responsible for the day to day running of the OII as departmental administrator, managing the Institute's physical, financial and human resources.

  email: emily.shipway@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287215

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  David Sutcliffe

  Communications Manager

  David manages departmental communications, and is also the Managing Editor of the journal Policy and Internet.

  email: david.sutcliffe@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287212

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  Adham Tamer

  IT Manager

  Adham manages the OII’s IT team. He is responsible for strategic planning and implementation of IT systems and infrastructure to support the department's research activities.

  email: adham.tamer@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287220

Advisory Board

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  Sir Alex Allan KCB

  Advisory Board Member

  Sir Alex Allan served as the first UK Government e-Envoy, and is former chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee and Head of Intelligence Assessment, UK Cabinet Office.

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  David Cleevely CBE FREng FIET

  Advisory Board Member

  David Cleevely CBE FREng FIET is the Founding Director of the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge and Chair of the CSaP Advisory Council.

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  Mr Charles Conn

  Advisory Board Member

  Mr Conn is Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford University and Senior Advisor to the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation.

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  Toby Coppel

  Advisory Board Member

  Toby is a Co-Founder and Partner at Mosaic Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm based in London. He has been in investing and operating roles in the internet sector since 1996.

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  Edwina Dunn DBA, MRS

  Advisory Board Member

  Edwina Dunn is the CEO of Starcount and co- founder with her partner Clive Humby, of dunnhumby, the creators of the Tesco Club Card. She is a Non-Executive Director of HMRC and sits on the Digital Economy Council.

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  Professor William H. Dutton

  Advisory Board Member, Research Associate

  Bill Dutton is the Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy at Michigan State University, where he is Director of the Quello Center. He 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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  Philip Evans

  Advisory Board Member

  Philip Evans serves as Senior Partner and Managing Director with The Boston Consulting Group, Boston. He founded BCG's media and Internet practices, and consults within the financial services, consumer goods, media, and information technology industries.

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  Professor Roger Goodman

  Advisory Board Member

  Professor Roger Goodman BA (Durham), DPhil (Oxon) is Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies, and Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College.

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  Dr James Manyika

  Advisory Board Member

  James Manyika is a Director (senior partner) at McKinsey & Company and one of the leaders of their Global High Tech Media and Telecom Practice based in Silicon Valley. He leads the McKinsey Global Institute, the firm's business and economics research arm.

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  Rosemary Martin

  Advisory Board Member

  Rosemary Martin is Vodafone Group General Counsel and Company Secretary.

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  Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt FREng CEng CPsychol

  Advisory Board Member

  Professor Nigel Shadbolt is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Southampton University and Past President of the British Computer Society

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  Professor Richard Susskind OBE

  Advisory Board Member, Visiting Professor

  A pioneer in the field of information technology and law, Richard Susskind is IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, and chairman of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute.

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  Conrad Young

  Advisory Board Member

  Conrad Young is the Global Managing Director of Deloitte’s Tax Management Consulting business. He led the tax software business in Deloitte and consults with large multi-national companies on the impact of technology and the internet on their tax compliance and reporting arrangements.