Digital Knowledge and Culture

New technologies have enabled innovations in the ways in which we create knowledge, access information, and engage with our heritage. These changes also affect the public, which is not just leaving digital traces, but increasingly playing a part in contributing to knowledge production. The OII is charting the ongoing digital transformations of the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, and their implications.

Spotlight

Oxford Digital Ethnography Group Seminar Series

This seminar series gathers leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on how ethnography is adapting to the study of heavily-mediated worlds.

Cabinet Project

Aiming to make Oxford's extraordinary library and museum collections, more accessible for teaching and research through digitisation (both 2D and 3D) and bringing these resources into a single intuitive interface.

TIDSR Impact Toolkit

This toolkit is designed as an easy to use guide to measuring the various impacts of online scholarly resources. (Offsite link)

Video: Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities

How have digital technologies changed research practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities?

Opinions

People

This research cluster brings together researchers whose work is aimed at understanding the impacts of digital technologies on scholarly and public engagement with knowledge, arts, culture and heritage. Our work has involved physicists, marine biologists, historians, theatre companies, film makers, scholarly archives, major libraries, museums, universities, crowdsourcing projects and the BBC in research projects at the forefront of understanding this shifting landscape.

Books

Teaching

Our taught courses are designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills to carry out qualitative data analysis of a variety of kinds of data (e.g. text, photos, videos) collected from both online and offline settings; experience analysing data both from traditional sources (Web of Knowledge, Scopus, etc.) and from alternative sources (Google, social media, Wikipedia, etc.); and to encourage students to develop a critical stance to their own research practice and the work of others.

Participate

Join Our Community

There are many ways in which you can join our community including joining our faculty by applying for a new position,  becoming a visitor,  attending our events, or by following us on social media to stay up to date with our latest research, commentary and insights.

Study with us

Study with us at a fully multi-disciplinary centre for Internet-related research, located in the world-leading University of Oxford.

We offer both full-time and part-time courses including an MSc in Social Science of the Internet and a DPhil in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences.

Support Our Work

We are proud of the strong relationships we’ve built with our existing funders and are delighted to publicly acknowledge their support. We always seek to engage our sponsors in the department’s activities and would be excited to discuss such opportunities with any new parties interested in supporting our important work.