Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon graduated in sociology at the University of Barcelona. She came to Oxford as an MSc student, graduating with distinction at Lady Margaret Hall (2003-2004), and moved on to complete her DPhil in Sociology as a member of Nuffield College (2004-2007). Prior to coming to the OII, she held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the department of Sociology (2007-2008). She is still affiliated to Nuffield College as a Research Fellow, where she co-organises the OII-Nuffield Social Networks Seminar Series.
Sandra is broadly interested in how internet technologies shape the flow of information and how online networks influence exposure to ideas and debates. She is involved in several projects that explore the structure and evolution of political discussion networks, and that use the contents of those discussions to track public opinion. More information about these projects can be found on the projects page of her website.
Sandra is an editor of the OII-edited journal Policy and Internet.
Internet and political engagement, threaded conversations, discussion networks, online deliberation, public opinion, sentiment analysis, social networks
Research Associate
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How effective are open data initiatives in encouraging civic engagement in policy-relevant domains?
This project aims to enhance JISC's UK Web Domain archive, a 30 TB archive of the .uk country-code top level domain collected from 1996 to 2010. It will extract link graphs from the data and disseminate social science research using the collection.
This project examines the research potential of online communication to gauge public opinion by reviewing different methods to draw public opinion indicators from online communication, focusing on what the public thinks and how they think about it.
With Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
How do people use the Internet to engage in the political process? Do online interactions change the shape and dynamics of civic networks? How is the Internet affecting declining trends in civic participation?
With Professor Helen Margetts, Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, Professor Vili Lehdonvirta, and Professor Rebecca Eynon
The IPP2014 conference will explore the new research frontiers opened up by crowdsourcing for politics and policy. Taking place in Oxford, it is convened by the OII, the journal Policy and Internet, and the ECPR.
With Professor Helen Margetts and Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
This conference organised by the journal Policy and Internet subjects the relationship between the Internet, Politics and Policy to multi-disciplinary scrutiny, focusing this time on the challenges of 'Big Data'.
30 May 2012
3 June 2011
29 March 2010
The Editorial Board of the OII-PSO journal 'Policy and Internet' is pleased to announce a call for a Guest Editor for a Special Issue of the journal, to be published in 2011.
