How are digital technologies reshaping culture and cultural work? And what does this mean for the people who create, curate, and engage with culture? Our encounters with music, literature, art, film, and museums are increasingly mediated by digital platforms, tools, and interfaces. As researchers, the challenge is in understanding how platforms, tools, computational techniques and AI alter the ways cultural artefacts are produced, circulated, and valued.
Associate Professor, Senior 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.
Associate Professor of Digital Culture
Robert Prey studies the relationship between technology, culture and capitalism. His current focus is the creative labour of musicians as they adapt to online platforms around the world.
The Culture, Creativity and Technology Group examines how digital technologies are transforming culture – from museums and heritage sites to music and creative work. Our research explores the opportunities and challenges that arise when culture is mediated through platforms, devices, algorithms, immersive technologies, and AI.
This project involves a cross-national analysis of the “platformisation” of music through the study of musicians in the Netherlands, Nigeria and South Korea.
Investigating how changes in music consumption are affecting the formation of individual and collective taste across Brazil.
A two-year collaborative project bringing together researchers from Uppsala University’s Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society (CIRCUS).
This project aims to unlock the underused potential for Smartphones. To utilise the resources, applications, and tools already available through mobile technology.
The emergence of AI image generation tools raises questions about their impact on creative professionals. This project seeks to work with professional photographers to explore the impact of this techn
The Algorithmic Pedestal was an exhibit held from January 11-17th, 2023 at J/M Gallery in London. It constituted an exhibit-based research project showcasing images curated by London-based artist Fabienne Hess alongside images curated by Instagram.
This project aims to bring together industry and academia to collaboratively develop principles for building an accessible social and technical infrastructure for preserving digital images.
This project interrogates the impact of AI on cultural heritages and the presentation of these futures through public-facing exhibition spaces. It will interrogate the agency of AI within exhibit contexts, exploring its role in creativity.
The group regularly publishes with students and early career researchers. Members of our group have been actively engaged in public engagement with research such as the Design, Interrupted and The Algorithmic Pedestal exhibitions.
We have hosted public-facing workshops such as the Flickr Foundation–OII event on protecting digital cultural assets for the long term and an ESRC-IAA funded workshop series on Measuring What Matters in cultural institutions.
We have worked with a range of cultural and heritage institutions, including Oxford University’s Gardens, Libraries and Museums, English Heritage, the National Trust, ArtUK, and the Flickr Foundation.
Alumni of the group now work in organisations including Adobe, the British Council, Flickr Foundation, FemLab (Utrecht University), Chatham House, and Leeds University.
DPhil Student
Roland looks at posthumanism in the context of self-tracking wearables and the environment. He is happy to connect with anyone interested in these topics. He loves to cook, surf, and dive.
DPhil Student
Amanda is a DPhil student researching video games, player creativity, and knowledge practices.
Research Associate
Dr. Danilo Dantas is a Full Professor of Marketing at HEC Montréal, where he serves as the pedagogical director of the graduate diploma in Management of Cultural Organisations.
PhD Candidate, PlatforMuse project, University of Groningen, NL
PhD Candidate, PlatforMuse project, University of Groningen, NL
DPhil Student
Shirley is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on the future of creativity and AI.
DPhil Student
Claire Leibowicz is a DPhil candidate and the Head of AI and Media Integrity at the Partnership on AI. Her research is generously funded by the OII Shirley Scholarship.
DPhil Student
Benedetta is a graduate researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute whose work bridges industry and academia to examine how emerging digital platforms reconfigure markets, consumer practices and institutional power.
DPhil Student
Fattori's research focuses on the politics of blockchain in the arts & heritage sector.
DPhil Student
Maggie’s doctoral research focuses on AI and creativity. She is incorporating visual art as a part of a practice-based methodological approach to understand how creatives find inspiration through algorithmic image search.
Postdoctoral Researcher, PlatforMuse project, University of Groningen, NL
DPhil Student
Samantha Jane Pay is a specialist in violence against women and girl’s policy and practice. Her research focuses on the concept of an ‘algorithmic female’ and the ethics of personalisation culture.
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Researcher, PlatforMuse project, University of Groningen, NL
DPhil Student
Nancy is a DPhil student at the OII. Her research concerns the public perception and user experience of emerging technologies.
PhD Candidate, HEC
Former DPhil Student
Joanna’s research focuses on junctures between mobile Augmented Reality environments, critical heritage visualisations and post/decolonial historiography.
Former DPhil Student
Cindy was an OII DPhil student interested in race, stereotypes, and humour in online subcultures.
Former MSc Student
Laura specializes in emerging technologies’ impact on artistic & creative practices.
Former MSc Student
Evelyn Miller is a multidisciplinary creative and sociologist with a background in the arts, publishing, start-ups, strategy, marketing and digital consulting.
Former DPhil Student
Nayana is a DPhil researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on purpose-built storytelling platforms in India and the changing nature of writing online. In her work, she blends ethnographic methodology with literary practice.
