Oxford Internet Institute

Directorate

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  Professor Philip Howard

  Director, Professor of Internet Studies

  Philip N. Howard is the Director of the OII. He is a professor of sociology, information and international affairs. He is the author, most recently, of Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up.

  Email: philip.howard@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Professor Helen Margetts

  Professor of Society and the Internet

  Helen Margetts is Professor of Society and the Internet, a political scientist specialising in digital government and politics. She was Director of the OII from 2011-18.

  Email: helen.margetts@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 287207

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  Professor Eric T. Meyer

  Professor of Social Informatics and Director of Graduate Studies

  Eric T. Meyer is Professor of Social Informatics and Director of Graduate Studies. His research looks at the changing nature of knowledge creation in science, medicine, social science, arts, and humanities as technology is embedded in everyday practices.

  Email: eric.meyer@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 287218

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  Dr Victoria Nash

  Deputy Director, Policy and Research Fellow

  Victoria Nash is the OII's Deputy Director and Policy and Research Fellow. She focuses on linking OII research to policy and practitioner communities.

  Email: victoria.nash@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 287231

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  Professor Andrew Przybylski

  Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow and Director of Research

  Andrew Przybylski is the Director of Research at the OII. He applies psychological models and motivational theory to study how people interact with virtual environments including video games and social media.

  Email: andy.przybylski@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 287230

Faculty

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  Dr Mohammad Amir Anwar

  Researcher

  Amir’s research focus is on the political economy of neoliberal globalisation in the Global South, mainly in India and Africa, with a particular interest on the growth of knowledge economy in Sub-Saharan Africa and its developmental impacts.

  Email: mohammad.anwar@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Dr Grant Blank

  Survey Research Fellow

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

  Email: grant.blank@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 612336

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  Dr Fabian Braesemann

  Data Scientist

  Dr Fabian Braesemann is Data Scientist at the OII working on the Geonet and Big Data and Human Development projects. His research interest is on the application of data mining techniques on data sources like Web of Science, Twitter or Wikipedia.

  Email: fabian.braesemann@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Dr Jonathan Bright

  Senior Research Fellow

  Jonathan Bright is a political scientist specialising in computational and ‘big data’ approaches to the social sciences.

  Email: jonathan.bright@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 287233

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  Chico Camargo

  Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science

  Chico Camargo is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science. He uses tools from mathematical modelling and network science to answer questions in the social sciences, focusing on public opinion dynamics, information dynamics, and human mobility.

  Email: chico.camargo@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Jamie Cameron

  Research Assistant

  Jamie Cameron uses 3D imaging to support museum learning through the online education platform 'Cabinet'.

  Email: jamie.cameron@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Greetje (Gretta) Corporaal

  Researcher

  Gretta is an organization scientist who studies the platform economy and the transformation of work and organizations.

  Email: gretta.corporaal@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 287210

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  Dr Huw C. Davies

  Researcher

  Huw’s research combines social theory with mixed, digital and ethnographic, methods to help critically re-evaluate how we approach young people’s digital literacies.

  Email: huw.davies@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Dr Martin Dittus

  Data Scientist

  Researcher and data scientist in social computing. Mass-participation platforms, large-scale data analysis and visualisation, community engagement and crowdsourcing, social implications of emerging technologies.

  Email: martin.dittus@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Dr Kathryn Eccles

  Research Fellow

  Kathryn Eccles has research interests in the impact of new technologies on Humanities scholarship, and the re-organisation of cultural heritage and higher education in the digital world.

  Email: kathryn.eccles@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 612338

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  Professor Rebecca Eynon

  Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor

  Rebecca Eynon's research focuses on learning and the Internet, and the links between digital and social exclusion.

  Email: rebecca.eynon@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 287206

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  Professor Luciano Floridi

  Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information and Director of the Digital Ethics Lab

  Luciano Floridi‘s research areas are the philosophy of Information, information and computer ethics, and the philosophy of technology.

  Email: luciano.floridi@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 287202

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  Dr 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

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 6 16996

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  Dr Bharath Ganesh

  Researcher

  Bharath is a political geographer focusing on data science and local government and the ethics and politics of researching violent online extremism.

  Email: bharath.ganesh@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0) 1865 612342

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  Dr Andrew Graham

  Senior Fellow, Founder

  Andrew Graham is the former Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford. He was the driving force in establishing the OII, and its Acting Director until July 2002. From 2001 to 2011 he was the founding Chairman of the OII's Advisory Board.

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  Professor Mark Graham

  Professor of Internet Geography

  Mark Graham is a geographer that focuses on economic development, labour, power, participation, and representation.

  Email: mark.graham@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 287203

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  Dr Scott A. Hale

  Senior Data Scientist and Research Fellow, Programme Director of the MSc in Social Data Science

  Dr Scott A. Hale is a Senior Data Scientist & Research Fellow, Social Data Science Programme Director, and Turing Fellow. He develops and applies computer science techniques to the social sciences focusing on bilingualism, UX, mobilization, and mobility.

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

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  Dr Bernie Hogan

  Senior Research Fellow

  Bernie Hogan examines how to capture, represent and think about social networks, especially personal social networks. His work focuses on the role of design in social media, network capture techniques and theories of relationships.

  Email: bernie.hogan@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 287198

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  Dr Otto Kässi

  Researcher

  Otto Kässi is a labour economist with a background in econometrics. His research concentrates on empirical study of online labour markets.

  Email: otto.kassi@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 280793

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  Dr Thomas C. King

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  Dr. Thomas C. King is a postdoctoral researcher in Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.

  Email: thomasc.king@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: 01865 287015

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  Professor Vili Lehdonvirta

  Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow

  Vili Lehdonvirta is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute. He is an economic sociologist who examines how digital technologies are shaping the organization of economic activities in society.

  Email: vili.lehdonvirta@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0) 745 6420012

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  Mimie (Dimitra) Liotsiou

  Researcher

  Mimie is a researcher on the Computational Propaganda project at the OII. Her research interests include online social influence, causal inference, computational social science, and data science, particularly using real-world data of online interactions.

  Email: mimie.liotsiou@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

  Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation

  Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is the OII's Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy.

  Email: viktor.ms@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 287232

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  Dr Graham McNeill

  Researcher

  Graham's research focuses on network science and visualization. He is particularly interested in geospatial and temporal networks.

  Email: graham.mcneill@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 287303

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  Dr Brent Mittelstadt

  Research Fellow & British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

  Brent Mittelstadt is a philosopher specialising in data ethics in relation to algorithms, machine learning, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, Big Data, and medical expert systems.

  Email: brent.mittelstadt@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 287221

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  Dr Vidya Narayanan

  Researcher

  Vidya recently joined the Oxford Internet Institute, as a post doctoral researcher in the Computational Propaganda Project.

  Email: vidya.narayanan@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Professor Gina Neff

  Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Programme Director of the DPhil in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences

  Professor Neff is a sociologist who studies innovation, the digital transformation of industries, and how new technologies impact work. She has studied digital change in the media, health care, and construction industries.

  Email: gina.neff@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 612778

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  Dr Myrto Pantazi

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  Myrto is a social psychologist with a background in psycholinguistics. She uses experimental methods to study social cognition. She is particularly interested in how people process and validate information as well as in their (conspiracy) beliefs.

  Email: myrto.pantazi@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Laura Pinkerton

  Research Assistant

  Laura Pinkerton is a social theorist. She uses qualitative methods to explore digital learning practices and computing education policy.

  Email: laura.pinkerton@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Professor Ralph Schroeder

  Senior Research Fellow

  Ralph Schroeder has interests in virtual environments, social aspects of e-Science, sociology of science and tech, and has written extensively about virtual reality technology. His current research is related to digital media and right-wing populism.

  Email: ralph.schroeder@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 287224

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  Dr Cohen R. Simpson

  Research Fellow & British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

  Cohen is a sociologist specialising in the quantitative study of human social networks (both online and offline), with a particular interest in the determinants of network formation.

  Email: cohen.simpson@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo

  Research Fellow

  Mariarosaria Taddeo's main research areas are information and computer ethics, philosophy of information, philosophy of technology, ethics of cyber conflicts and cybersecurity, and applied ethics.

  Email: mariarosaria.taddeo@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 287049

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  Dr Greg Taylor

  Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Programme Director of the MSc in Social Science of the Internet

  Greg's research focuses on the microeconomics of marketplaces that exist on, or are mediated by the Internet.

  Email: greg.taylor@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 287201

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  Dr Andrew Turner

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  Andrew Turner’s research area is the philosophy and sociology of health data.

  Email: andrew.turner@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Dr Sandra Wachter

  Research Fellow and MSc Alumna

  Dr. Sandra Wachter is a lawyer and Research Fellow in Data Ethics, AI, robotics and Internet Regulation/cyber-security at the Oxford Internet Institute.

  Email: sandra.wachter@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Michel Wahome

  Researcher

  Michel Wahome researches the co-evolution of digital technologies, practices, markets and institutions in the Global South.

  Email: michel.wahome@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 1865 612326

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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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  Dr Matt Willis

  Researcher

  Matt Willis is a researcher studying automation and computerisation in the NHS system with Prof. Meyer. Matt’s research interests include sociotechnical systems in healthcare settings and patient oriented infrastructures.

  Email: matthew.willis@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Dr Alex J Wood

  Researcher

  Alex J. Wood is a sociologist of work and employment, focusing on the changing nature of employment relations and labour markets. He is currently researching worker voice, organisation and action in the online gig economy.

  Email: alex.wood@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 287014

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  Dr Jamie Woodcock

  Researcher

  Jamie Woodcock is a sociologist of work, focusing on digital labour, the gig economy, and resistance. He is currently involved in the Fairwork Foundation, a project about online labour platforms.

  Email: jamie.woodcock@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Dr Joss Wright

  Senior Research Fellow

  Joss Wright's research interests lie in cryptography, privacy-enhancing technologies and anonymous communications. His current research focuses on analysing Internet censorship, and data anonymization.

  Email: joss.wright@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  Dr Taha Yasseri

  Senior Research Fellow in Computational Social Science

  Taha Yasseri has interests in analysis of large-scale transactional data to understand human dynamics, government-society interactions, mass collaboration, information and opinion dynamics.

  Email: taha.yasseri@oii.ox.ac.uk

  Tel: +44 (0)1865 287229

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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

Doctoral students

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  Mahsa Alimardani

  DPhil Student

  Mahsa is a DPhil student at the OII. Her research focuses on new communication technologies in Iranian politics.

  mahsa.alimardani@oii.ox.ac.uk
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  Katharina Anders

  DPhil Student

  Katarina Anders is a DPhil student at the OII.

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  Samantha Bradshaw

  DPhil student

  Samantha is an OII DPhil student interested in computational propaganda, social media and democracy, human rights, and Internet policy

  samantha.bradshaw@oii.ox.ac.uk
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  Sian Brooke

  DPhil student

  Sian Brooke is a DPhil student at the OII.

  sian.brooke@oii.ox.ac.uk
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  Corinne Cath

  DPhil student

  Corinne Cath is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on the politics and ethics of Internet governance and the management of the Internet’s infrastructure.

  ccath@turing.ac.uk
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  Margie Cheesman

  DPhil Student

  Margie is a DPhil student at the OII.

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  Mona Elswah

  DPhil Student

  Mona Elswah is a DPhil student at the OII.

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  Graham Fairclough

  DPhil Student

  Graham possesses a MSc in Knowledge Management Systems from Cranfield University and a MA in Defence Studies from Kings College, London.

  graham.fairclough@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.

  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.

  patrick.gildersleve@oii.ox.ac.uk
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  Amelia Hassoun

  DPhil Student

  Amelia Hassoun's research analyses the design, development, and usage of sensor technologies embedded in Singapore’s urban landscape as part of its Smart Nation project, as well as the social life of the data they produce.

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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,

  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. She researches persuasion in the context of new media, focusing specifically on the rhetoric and resonance of Brexit tweets.

  yin.lu@oii.ox.ac.uk
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  Nahema Marchal

  DPhil Student

  Nahema is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on the relationship between political polarisation and social media “echo chambers.”

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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.

  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.

  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.

  paige.mustain@oii.ox.ac.uk
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  Lisa-Maria Neudert

  Part time DPhil student

  Lisa-Maria Neudert is a DPhil Student researching technical, regulatory and civil society countermeausres to online propaganda and media manipulation.

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  Carl Öhman

  DPhil Student

  Carl Öhman is an OII DPhil Student.

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  Sanna Ojanperä

  DPhil Student

  Sanna is a DPhil Student at the OII and also a doctoral student at the Alan Turing Institute, where she leads the Data and Inequality interest group together with her supervisor Mark Graham.

  sanna.ojanpera@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 612344

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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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  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.

  godofredojr.ramizo@oii.ox.ac.uk
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  Odysseas Sclavounis

  DPhil student

  Odysseas Sclavounis is a DPhil student at the OII and also at the Alan Turing Institute. His research focuses on the governance of public blockchains, specifically Bitcoin and Ethereum.

  odysseas.sclavounis@oii.ox.ac.uk
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  Joe Shaw

  DPhil student

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

  joe.shaw@oii.ox.ac.uk
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  Kate Sim

  DPhil student

  Kate is an OII DPhil student interested in anti-rape technologies.

  kate.sim@oii.ox.ac.uk
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  Sarah Stewart

  DPhil Student

  Sarah Stewart is a DPhil student at the OII.

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  Theodora Sutton

  DPhil student

  Theodora is an OII DPhil student. Her research in digital anthropology examines digital detoxing and the widespread cultural narrative that sees digital sociality as inherently ‘lesser’ or less ‘natural’ than previous forms of communication.

  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.

  bertie.vidgen@oii.ox.ac.uk
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  Thomas Vogl

  DPhil student

  Thomas Vogl is an OII DPhil student interested in public administration, organizational studies, and digital change. His thesis will explore public sector organizational memory in the digital age.

  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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  David Watson

  DPhil Student

  David Watson is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, where his research focuses on the epistemological foundations of machine learning.

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  Wybo Wiersma

  DPhil student

  Wybo Wiersma is an OII DPhil student.

  wybo.wiersma@oii.ox.ac.uk
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  Pu Yan

  DPhil student

  Pu Yan is an OII DPhil student. She focuses on the influence of the emerging ICTs on everyday life in rural and industrial China, as well as in other developing countries.

  pu.yan@oii.ox.ac.uk
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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.

  bendert.zevenbergen@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 612339

Masters students

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  Publio Adrianza Cerqueira

  MSc student

  Born in Caracas, Publio graduated from Stanford University with a B.S.H. in Science, Technology and Society. Publio is interested in the implementation, operation, and impact of the online gig economy.

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  Sabrina Ahmad

  MSc student

  Sabrina Ahmad holds a B.A. in Communications and Sociology from the University of Ottawa. Fluent in English, French and Bengali, she has worked in e-communications for the Government of Canada and in marketing and research roles across Europe.

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  Carolina Albassini

  MSc student

  Carolina graduated as a European Ethnologist from the Ludwig-Maximilians University, in Munich, Germany. She founded her own company in 2016. Her interests are social media and it’s effects on users and consumption trends.

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  Ville Aula

  MSc student

  Ville is interested in digital tools and new forms of expertise in policy-making. He hold a BSc and a MSc in Political Science from the University of Helsinki, and worked as a government management consultant prior to joining OII.

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  Kaveh Azarhoosh

  MSc student (Part Time)

  Kaveh is a part time MSc student at the OII.

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  Maud Barret

  MSc student

  Italian and French student of politics and philosophy (Sciences Po, Universite Paris Sarbonne), insists on reconciling political theory and philosophy of technique with praxis.

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  Tereza Bartonickova

  Part Time MSc student

  Tereza holds a Bc. in marketing and PR and gained diverse experience before joining the OII. She focuses on changes in public opinion forming and how the internet transforms our thinking and therefore our society, nations and culture.

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  Megan Beretta

  MSc student

  Megan holds a BSocSc in Political Science and Communication from the University of Ottawa. She is interested in the intersection of the internet, civic engagement, social media, and politics.

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  Simon Bone

  Part Time MSc student

  Simon is a graduate in Computer Science from Cambridge University and has a masters from the Harvard Kennedy School where he was editor of the newspaper. He is now a partner in a Venture Capital firm.

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  Michaela Brady

  MSc student

  Michaela is interested in mitigating cyber-aggression and improving online therapy. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and has a background in psychology, social media analysis, and writing.

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  Saba Rebecca Brause

  MSc student

  Saba Rebecca Brause is interested in online privacy and data protection. She earned her BA in Social Sciences and her MA in Communication from from Sciences Po Paris, graduating cum laude.

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  Bethan Charnley

  MSc student

  Bethan is an MSc student at the OII. She previously worked as a management consultant, specialising in digital disruption. Bethan holds a BA in History from the University of Cambridge.

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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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  Scarlet Dawson Duckworth

  MSc student

  Scarlet is interested in the role that online spheres play in shaping identity, particularly personal and national identities. She holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

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  Rachel Dinh

  MSc student

  Rachel Dinh is from Los Angeles and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. She previously worked at the World Economic Forum and ITIF. Her main research interest is electronic privacy.

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  Marianna Drake

  MSc student

  Marianna is a part-time graduate student at the OII. Her research focuses on data ethics and the legal, social and economic implications of artificial intelligence.

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  Monika Glowacki

  MSc student

  Monika studies the duality of internet technologies as tools for social control and mobilization. She holds an honors BA in Social Studies and Latin American Studies from Harvard, and has worked at an urban innovation research center.

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  Aaron Gluck-Thaler

  MSc student

  Aaron Gluck Thaler is a Rhodes Scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute. His research focuses on cybersecurity, social movements, and surveillance. Aaron received his B.Eng. from McGill University.

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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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  Olivia Hawkins

  Part Time MSc student

  Olivia is a part time MSc student at the OII.

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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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  Beatriz Kira

  MSc student

  Beatriz is a MSc Student at the Oxford Internet Institute and a PhD Student at the University of São Paulo. She is interested in issues involving law and technology, especially internet policy and regulation.

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  Katsushige Kitazawa

  MSc student

  I worked for the Japanese government and hold a MSc in Meteorology and BS in Physics. My interest is the use of big data and artificial intelligence for Disaster Risk Reduction and Weather business.

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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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  Kyle Kroeger

  MSc student

  Kyle Kroeger is a full-time MSc Student at the OII interested in the ability of the private sector and entrepreneurs to deliver social innovation. He holds a BS in Economics from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

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  Kelley Kugler

  MSc student

  Kelley is interested in how thoughtfully designed technology might reduce the global toll of anxiety and foster mental wellness. Her background spans Neuroscience, Fine Art, and Innovation Strategy.

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  Jack La Violette

  MSc student

  With a background in linguistics, Jack is interested in the social semiotics of the internet. His research addresses metapragmatics and discourse studies on platforms like Reddit and Instagram.

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  Caio MacHado

  Part Time MSc student

  Caio obtained his law degree from the University of São Paulo and his masters in technology law from the Sorbonne Law School. He is mainly interested in the regulation of distributed ledger technologies and their applications.

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  Jasmine Madavi

  MSc student

  Jasmine is a MSc student from San Francisco, California. Before joining the OII, she completed a BA in Sociology, with a concentration in Science and Medicine. She has worked in tech for 5 years, writing user-facing content for Google.

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  Christopher McIntyre

  MSc student

  Chris wants to use internet-related technologies to improve public services. He is a 2017 Rhodes Scholar, previously worked at BCG, and co-founded Policy, an online electoral engagement tool.

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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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  Greyson Nevins-Archer

  MSc student

  Greyson is an aspiring Internet nerd that has contributed research and code to a range of companies and non-profits. He hopes to explore the Internet in relation to the United States and transnational laws that apply to it.

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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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  Cailean Osborne

  MSc student

  Cailean is interested in Internet Policy and Social Computation. Cailean is a member of the Connected Past network at Oxford and holds an MA in History from the University of Edinburgh.

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  Tulsi Parida

  MSc student

  Tulsi is an OII MSc student and Pershing Square Scholar. She is interested in learning about how internet technology can improve educational outcomes in the Global South.

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  Samantha Pay

  Part Time MSc student

  Sam is a Multidisciplinary Therapist and MSc student. Her research focus/interests are VAWG presentations in mass & digital media, lived experience of survivors, and virtual environments for therapy.

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  Matthew Pierri

  MSc student

  Matt is a 26-year-old Australian with backgrounds in journalism and in law. He is interested in exploring how advocacy and social change interact with online platforms, and issues around the governance and regulation of data and AI.

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  Jan Philipp Rau

  MSc student

  Jan is interested in questions about the digital transformation of politics and society, e.g. echo chambers in social media or the crisis of democracy. He has a background in Political Science, Sociology and Social Psychology.

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  Jannie Reher

  MSc student

  Jannie Reher is interested in the internet’s influence on education, in particular Massive Open Online Courses. After graduating with bachelor degrees in business and economics from the University of St. Gallen, she worked in consulting.

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  Mary Sanford

  MSc student

  Mary Peyton is a MSc student with the OII. Her primary research interests lie in the study of terrorist orgniazaitons on social media and counterterrorism security policies. She holds a BA in Cognitive Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

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  Rebecca Schwartz

  MSc student

  Becca is interested in the intersection between Internet technologies, policy, and gender issues. She holds a B.S. from Cornell University in Communication, where she graduated summa cum laude.

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  Ben Scott

  MSc student

  Ben is interested in political decision making and how it might be influenced by direct and indirect online political engagement. Ben has worked as a data analyst in the public sector for over ten years and holds a BA in Social Science.

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  Steffen Sieler

  MSc student

  Steffen studied Economics, Politics and Sociology and has developed a research focus on cryptoeconomics. He worked with distributed ledger technology at a bank and a startup and founded Blockchain Policy Initiative.

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  Erin Simpson

  MSc student

  Erin Simpson researches threats and possibilities for civic life online. Erin served as the Founding Director of Programs for nonprofit Civic Hall Labs. She is a Marshall Scholar, Truman Scholar, and holds a Public Policy BA from the University of Chicago

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  Julia Slupska

  MSc student

  Julia is a full time MSc student focusing on how governments cooperate and compete in cyberspace. Julia graduated from the LSE, where she also worked on a research project on regional organisations.

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  Andrew Strait

  MSc student

  Andrew is a former legal specialist at Google who helped draft Google’s policies relating to counter-terrorism, data protection, and defamation laws. He successfully passed the Turing test last Fall.

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  Anna Tankel

  MSc student (Part Time)

  Anna Tankel, an MSc student at the OII, is interested in Data Ethics, Digital Humanities, and the impact of the Internet on language. In her spare time, she enjoys editing Wikipedia, and the odd digital detox.

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  Alice Thwaite

  MSc student

  Alice studied History and Philosophy of Science and has worked in tech and media. Recently she founded the Echo Chamber Club – a project to help her peers access contrary opinions & different voices.

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  Adam Turowski

  MSc student (Part Time)

  Adam is a part time MSc student at the OII.

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  Alexandra Tyurgashova

  MSc student

  Alexandra is a OII MSc student. Her research interests include methodology for predicting social protests online, the Dark Web and its implications for terrorism development.

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  Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan

  MSc student

  Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan is interested in computational propaganda, online extremism, and their intersection. He holds a BA in English from Oxford and an MS from Columbia Journalism School.

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  Siqi Wang

  MSc student

  Siqi Wang focuses on the effect of social media on empowering low-skilled migrants. She helped food delivery workers in China form mutual-help groups online. Siqi holds a BA in International Development Studies from McGill University.

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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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  Claire Woodcock

  MSc student

  Claire is a part time MSc student at the OII.

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  Lucas Wright

  MSc student

  Lucas previously worked at the Dangerous Speech Project where he researched methods for responding to harmful speech online. He holds a BA in Political Science from American University.

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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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  Santiago Amador

  MSc Alumnus

  Santiago is an MSc Alumnus interested on Digital Inequality and Internet Policy. Before Coming to the OII Santiago was the Internet Policy Director of the Ministry of ICT of Colombia. Thesis: Informal Learning Based on Online Tutorials

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  Rami Amin

  DPhil Alumnus

  Rami Amin is an OII DPhil alumnus who focused on the use of experimental methods to explore political science research questions and themes. His thesis investigated the impact of visibility and transparency on democratic participation and civic behavior.

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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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  Gillian Bolsover

  Research Associate and DPhil Alumna

  Gillian Bolsover researches politics, citizenship and civil society in the modern world, focusing on the changes associated with new media technologies and on producing research that takes into account China and other non-Western populations.

  gillian.bolsover@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: 01865 (2) 87239

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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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  William Bumpas

  MSc Alumnus

  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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  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 Cath is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on the politics and ethics of Internet governance and the management of the Internet’s infrastructure.

  ccath@turing.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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  Daniel Chase

  MSc Alumnus

  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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  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

  Research Associate and MSc Alumnus

  Josh is a research assistant based at the Alan Turing Institute, where he facilitates the work of the Institute’s Data Ethics Group. Josh’s research centres on the implications of big data, AI and automation on politics, business and society at large.

  Josh.cowls@gmail.com
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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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  Florian Dahlhausen

  MSc Alumnus

  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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  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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  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.

  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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  Clémentine Désigaud

  MSc Alumna

  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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  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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  Katie Draper

  MSc Alumna

  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 Alumna

  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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  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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  Bruce Eric Etling

  DPhil Alumnus

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

  bruce.etling@oii.ox.ac.uk
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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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  Marc-Aurèle Ferracci

  MSc Alumni

  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 Alumna

  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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  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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  Susie Forbath

  MSc Alumna

  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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  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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  Dr Nicolas Friederici

  Postdoctoral Researcher

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

  nicolas.friederici@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 6 16996

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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.

  julian.gilson@oii.ox.ac.uk
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  Chenzhuo Gong

  MSc Alumnus

  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 Alumna

  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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  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.

  bwgoodman@gmail.com
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  Robert Gorwa

  MSc Alumnus

  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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  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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  Freya Griffiths

  MSc Alumna

  Thesis: Transgender disclosure strategies in online social spaces 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 and Research Fellow, Programme Director of the MSc in Social Data Science

  Dr Scott A. Hale is a Senior Data Scientist & Research Fellow, Social Data Science Programme Director, and Turing Fellow. He develops and applies computer science techniques to the social sciences focusing on bilingualism, UX, mobilization, and mobility.

  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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  Love Hedman

  MSc Alumnus

  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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  Paul Hermann

  MSc Alumnus

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

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  Dr Isis Hjorth

  Research Associate and DPhil Alumna

  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.

  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.

  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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  Kabeleka Kabeleka

  MSc Alumnus

  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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  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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  Claire Leibowicz

  MSc Alumna

  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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  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.

  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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  Lily McElwee

  MSc Alumna

  Lily is interested in partisan uses for big data and social media, digital diplomacy, and high-tech cross-border investment. She holds a BA (hons) in Political Science and minor in Modern Languages (Chinese and German) from Stanford University.

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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.

  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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  Bill Mulligan

  MSc Alumnus

  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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  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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  Anisha Nadkarni

  MSc Alumna

  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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  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.

  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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  Tom Nicholls

  DPhil Alumnus

  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.

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

  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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  Adena Peckler

  MSc Alumna

  Adena received a dual BA at the George Washington University in both Asian Studies and International Affairs, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Her interests are digital inequality and the provision of broadband to rural areas.

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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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  Edward Percarpio

  MSc Alumnus

  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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  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.

  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

  Thesis: Opening the Black Box: In Search of Algorithmic Transparency Supervisor: Professor Ralph Schroeder Completed: 2016

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  Vyacheslav W. Polonski

  DPhil alumnus

  Vyacheslav Polonski an OII DPhil alumnus, specialising in network science and the sociology of the Internet. His research focused on the structural aspects of collective behaviour in online communities.

  vyacheslav.polonski@oii.ox.ac.uk
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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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  Léonie Rivière

  MSc Alumna

  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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  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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  Katherine Rother

  MSc Alumna

  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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  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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  Cory Salveson

  MSc Alumnus

  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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  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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  Hendrik Schriefer

  MSc Alumnus

  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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  Odysseas Sclavounis

  DPhil student

  Odysseas Sclavounis is a DPhil student at the OII and also at the Alan Turing Institute. His research focuses on the governance of public blockchains, specifically Bitcoin and Ethereum.

  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.

  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 is an OII DPhil student interested in anti-rape technologies.

  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.

  david.simon@oii.ox.ac.uk
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  Felix Simon

  MSc Alumnus

  Felix holds a BA in Film- and Media Studies and worked as a journalist both in Germany and abroad. He is interested in digital journalism and digital culture. He is currently a research assistant at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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  Dr Cohen R. Simpson

  Research Fellow & British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

  Cohen is a sociologist specialising in the quantitative study of human social networks (both online and offline), with a particular interest in the determinants of network formation.

  cohen.simpson@oii.ox.ac.uk
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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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  Dr Sandra Wachter

  Research Fellow and MSc Alumna

  Dr. Sandra Wachter is a lawyer and Research Fellow in Data Ethics, AI, robotics and Internet Regulation/cyber-security at the Oxford Internet Institute.

  sandra.wachter@oii.ox.ac.uk
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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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  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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  James Williams

  DPhil student

  James Williams is an OII DPhil alumnus. He studied the ethics of attention and persuasion in technology design.

  james.williams@oii.ox.ac.uk
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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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  Aiste Zalepuga

  MSc Alumna

  Aiste is a MSc student interested in digital government, law and technology. She received her BA from Yale University.

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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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  Gillian Bolsover

  Research Associate and DPhil Alumna

  Gillian Bolsover researches politics, citizenship and civil society in the modern world, focusing on the changes associated with new media technologies and on producing research that takes into account China and other non-Western populations.

  gillian.bolsover@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: 01865 (2) 87239

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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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  Josh Cowls

  Research Associate and MSc Alumnus

  Josh is a research assistant based at the Alan Turing Institute, where he facilitates the work of the Institute’s Data Ethics Group. Josh’s research centres on the implications of big data, AI and automation on politics, business and society at large.

  Josh.cowls@gmail.com
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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.

  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.

  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 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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  Kurtis Garbutt

  Research Associate

  Kurtis Garbutt is a Research Engineer at University College London where his research focuses on the use of open source data, mapping and agent-based modelling to examine vulnerability and assist NGOs respond to hazards.

  kurtis@kjgarbutt.com
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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.

  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.

  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 Isis Hjorth

  Research Associate and DPhil Alumna

  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.

  isis.hjorth@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 612775

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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.

  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.

  christopher.millard@oii.ox.ac.uk
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  Dr Turkay Salim Nefes

  Research Associate

  I am a sociologist working on online/offline diffusion and impacts of knowledge from different angles.

  turkay.nefes@sociology.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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  Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen

  Research Associate

  Anne-Marie Oostveen has interests in the social implications of new and emerging technologies, privacy aspects in relation to ICT, online activism, user participation as a practical form for (computer) system design, and HCI.

  anne-marie.oostveen@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287208

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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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  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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  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.

  alison.powell@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287223

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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.

  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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  Associate Professor 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.

  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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  Sam Woolley

  Research Associate

  Samuel Woolley is the Director of Research of the Computational Propaganda project. His work focuses on the intersection of political communication and automation—with a specific focus on political bots on social media platforms.

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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

  Research Support Officer

  Jess works with the Senior Research Facilitator as part of the Research Facilitation team.

  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.

  help@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287217

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  Jordan Davies

  Events & Graduate Studies Officer

  Jordan plays a key role in both our events and teaching programmes. She manages the OII’s conferences, seminars, policy forums and other external and internal events and supports the Graduate Studies Co-Ordinators

  events@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287223

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  Tim Davies

  Senior Research Facilitator

  Tim oversees Research Facilitation in the department, and supports the growth and development of OII research activity and strategy.

  tim.davies@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 612334

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  John Gilbert

  Web Developer

  John is responsible for the development and maintenance of the OII’s suite of websites, including user experience, user interfaces, and the OII’s visual identity.

  john.gilbert@oii.ox.ac.uk
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  Gen Juillet

  Media and Communications Manager

  Gen manages the OII’s communications activities, including media relations. She is responsible for the OII’s external relations strategy, social media presence, content creation and publications. Gen is the first point of contact for all press enquiries.

  gen.juillet@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287237

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  Pauline Kinniburgh

  PA to Director, Professor Helen Margetts (Maternity leave)

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

  director@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 87226

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  Marie Lemon

  PA to Director, Professor Helen Margetts, and to Director of Research, Professor Philip Howard

  Marie is PA to Professor Helen Margetts and Professor Philip Howard, and is the first point of contact for all matters relating to the Directors.

  marie.lemon@oii.ox.ac.uk
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  Laura Maynard

  DPhil Co-Ordinator

  Laura manages all on-course administration for the OII’s DPhil Programme.

  teaching@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287222

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  Victoria McDermott

  MSc Co-Ordinator

  Victoria manages the administrative support for the OII’s MSc Programme, from recruitment and admissions, through to on-course student progression. She is also the Disability Co-Ordinator for the Department.

  teaching@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287304

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  Karen Mead

  Administrative and Graduate Studies Assistant (Maternity leave)

  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.

  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.

  finance@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287216

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  Solenn Robert

  Administrative and Events Assistant

  Solenn is the first point of contact for all enquiries and she also supports the organization and running of the Events at the OII.

  events@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: 01865 287210

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  Ornella Sciuto

  Personnel Officer

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

  recruit@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865287011

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  David Sutcliffe

  Senior Science Writer

  David is the Managing Editor of the Policy and Internet Journal. He provides advice and editorial services to the OII faculty, and writes commissioned content for our publications.

  david.sutcliffe@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 287212

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  Adham Tamer

  Director of IT and Web Services

  Adham leads and manages the IT and Web teams in the delivery of services in support of the research, teaching and administrative activities of the department.

  adham.tamer@oii.ox.ac.uk

  tel: +44 (0)1865 612340

Advisory Board

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  Mitchell Baker

  Advisory Board Member

  Mitchell Baker co-founded the Mozilla Project and serves as Chairwoman of Mozilla.

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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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  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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  Alexsis de Raadt St James

  Advisory Board Member

  Alexsis is a business executive and investment professional with diverse experience in corporate finance, private equity, venture capital and technology. She is the founder and managing partner of Merian Ventures, a US and UK venture capital firm.

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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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  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.