- Internet and society
- Digital government and politics
- Information geographies and economies
- Science, learning and technology
- Internet governance, regulation and ethics
The use and impact of ICTs within academic and research communities and the social and institutional contexts in which this takes place, including the informal role of the Internet in learning and education.
Participants: Dr Silke Ackermann, Dr Kathryn Eccles, Professor Howard Hotson, Dr Giovanna Vitelli
This project will develop and test a digital platform to support the integration of museum and library collections into Oxford’s world-class teaching.
Participants: Professor Ian Brown, Guy Piers O'Hanlon, Dr Joss Wright
This project considers the challenges of having robot proxies in public spaces. It will conduct experiments exploring trust in shared social settings, and develop a framework for understanding the impact of privacy / anonymity in human-robot interactions.
Participants: Dr Scott A. Hale
Understanding what translation rating/voting systems work best for human, crowd-sourced translation and the optimal display of translated content.
Participants: Dr Ruth Olimpia García Gavilanes, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Milena Tsvetkova, Dr Taha Yasseri
In this project we evaluate Human-Machine Networks by focusing on two cases of peer-production in Wikipedia and citizen science projects in Zooniverse by applying quantitative methods to transactional big data.
Participants: Dr Jonathan Bright, Dr Scott A. Hale, Dr Graham McNeill
Mining human mobility and migration patterns from social media and industry data sources as well as visualizing geo-temporal network data interactively with HTML5.
Participants: Professor Rebecca Eynon, Nabeel Gillani, Dr Isis Hjorth, Dr Taha Yasseri
This project examines the extent to which social learning can be supported in the large online crowds of MOOCs.
Participants: Dr Huw C. Davies, Professor Rebecca Eynon
This participatory research project explores a two year initiative that provides all year 10 students with a laptop and Internet connection if they require one at home in three secondary schools.
Participants: Khairunnisa Haji Ibrahim, Dr Taha Yasseri
This project will investigate the patterns of contributions to the citizen science project “Zooniverse” relying on large scale statistical analysis of the transactional activity data of the users.
Participants: Professor Rebecca Eynon
This project explores the ethical and social implications of the growing use of data in education via a systematic review of policy and practice in the UK, USA and Singapore.
Participants: Professor Eric T. Meyer
The TIDSR best practices toolkit includes a number of elements to aid researchers and funding bodies to assess the impact of their digitisation projects, including measures that have been judged to be effective measures of impact.
Participants: Dr Cristobal Cobo, Dr Huw C. Davies, Professor Rebecca Eynon
The transliteracy project aims to examine how young people use technology to learn outside formal educational settings.
Participants: Dr Kathryn Eccles
This AHRC funded project will study the impact of an innovative crowdsourcing initiative on Your Paintings, an important new digital art collection hosted by the BBC.
Participants: Professor Eric T. Meyer, Josh Cowls, Professor Ralph Schroeder, Dr Linnet E. M. Taylor
The project will follow 'big data' from its public and private origins through open and closed pathways into the social sciences, and document and shape the ways they are being accessed and used to create new knowledge about the social world.
Participants: Professor Eric T. Meyer, Professor Ralph Schroeder, Ulrike Deetjen
The aim of this study is to undertake an in-depth examination of the practices in data sharing to advance the science of dementia and other age-related neurodegenerative diseases.
Participants: Professor Helen Margetts, Dr Jonathan Bright, Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, Dr Scott A. Hale, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Tom Nicholls, Dr Taha Yasseri
This project aims to enhance JISC's UK Web Domain archive, a 30 TB archive of the .uk country-code top level domain collected from 1996 to 2010. It will extract link graphs from the data and disseminate social science research using the collection.
Participants: Josh Cowls, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Professor Ralph Schroeder
The Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities project works with data derived from the UK domain crawl from 1996 to 2013, in order to develop a framework for the study of web archive data and produce a major history of the UK web space.
Participants: Peter Birmingham, Chris Davies, Richard Pring
Studying innovations in learning and education tied to the implementation of broadband infrastructures in Oxfordshire schools, leading to broader questions about the factors shaping e-innovation at all levels of education and learning.
Participants: Professor Rebecca Eynon, Dr Chris Davies, Nabeel Gillani, Dr Isis Hjorth, Dr Taha Yasseri
The overarching goal of this project is to propose a typology that describes the nature of learner interactions in MOOCs that develops our understanding of how learning takes place in such settings.
Participants: Dr Kathryn Eccles, Professor Eric T. Meyer
This project was designed to synthesize the evidence about the impact that digital resources are having on various audiences, and how resource providers have stepped up efforts to embed resources into the practices of communities.
Participants: Professor Eric T. Meyer
This dissertation project examines the intersection between technology and scientific practice for marine mammal scientists who use digital photography.
Participants: Professor Eric T. Meyer, Professor William H. Dutton, Dr Kathryn Eccles, Dr Christine Madsen, Professor Ralph Schroeder, Professor Mike Thelwall
This project combined quantitative and qualitative indicators to measure the impact of online scholarly resources and to develop a best practices toolkit that allows assessment of the impact of digitisation projects by researchers and funding bodies.
Participants: Professor Ian Brown, Mona Hess, Sally McDonald, Francesca Millar, Yean-Hoon Ong, Stuart Robson, Dr Graeme Were
e-Curator explores the use of 3D colour scanning and e-Science technologies to capture and share very large 3D colour scans and detailed datasets about museum artefacts in a secure computing environment, to assist curators and conservators.
Participants: Professor Paul Allan David
Articulating and coordinating policy guidelines for international organisations, national governments and private foundations on open access publication and sharing of publicly funded scientific and technical data and information.
Participants: Professor Ian Brown, Dr Monica Bulger, Dr Cristobal Cobo, Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen, Ben Zevenbergen
EINS aims to strengthen scientific and technological excellence by developing an integrated and interdisciplinary scientific understanding of Internet networks and their co-evolution with society.
Participants: Grace de la Flor, Dr Marina Jirotka, Sharon Lloyd, Mustafizur Rahman, Dr Monica Schraefel, Professor Ralph Schroeder, Dimitrina Spencer, Professor Anne Trefethen, Andrew Warr
The 'embedding e-science applications' project addressed the difficulty of managing requirements for usability in e-science projects, and developing collaborative approaches to system development that allow for communication of these requirements.
Participants: Dr Kathryn Eccles, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Professor Ralph Schroeder
Aiming to better understand the organizational, collaborative and technological developments in e-Infrastructures which are effective in supporting virtual research organizations in different fields.
Participants: Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Isis Hjorth
Theatre and dance have fallen a long way behind music in the way they connect with audiences digitally. This project aims to understand how audiences can be engaged in the creative process, by evaluating the BAC's Scratch Online platform.
Participants: Professor Paul Allan David
FLOSSWorld is designed to increase knowledge about Free / Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS) development and application, in order to support further collaboration between the EU and developing countries, and to contribute to informed public policy.
Participants: Professor Rebecca Eynon, Dr Ellen Helsper, Dr Alexander van Deursen
This study aims to develop new survey measures of people’s digital skills, digital engagement and outcomes of Internet use.
Participants: Dr Marina Jirotka, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Claire Warwick, Dr Sally Wyatt, Smiljana Antonijevic, Dr Anne Beaulieu, Dr Monica Bulger, Dr Annamaria Carusi, Tim Davies, Grace de la Flor, Dr Kathryn Eccles, Dr Christine Madsen, Professor Ralph Schroeder, Dr Melissa Terras, Dr Tim Webmoor
Many humanities scholars are enthusiastic users of digital resources, however there is a potential mismatch between what (and how) resources are offered, and how scholars might use them. How should they be designed to ensure maximum use by scholars?
Participants: Dr Monica Bulger, Professor Mark Graham, Dr Scott A. Hale, Professor Helen Margetts, Joshua Melville
"InteractiveVis" aims to support easy creation of interactive visualisations for geospatial and network data by researchers: it will survey existing solutions, build currently missing features, and smooth over incompatibilities between existing libraries.
Participants: Dr Monica Bulger, Dr Bernie Hogan, Joshua Melville
Knowledge exchange implies forging, facilitating and fostering social connections. Oxford's Knowledge Exchange Network addresses this need among university staff and external stakeholders. We assist the KE Network through interactive network mapping.
Participants: Professor Rebecca Eynon, Dr Anne Geniets
Around 10% of 17-19 year olds in Britain are lapsed Internet users: why have they stopped using the Internet given its prevalence and value in the lives of the majority of young people? This project aims to inform the UK's digital inclusion strategy.
Participants: Tim Berners-Lee, Professor William H. Dutton, Professor Wendy Hall, Professor Yorick Wilks, Professor Jonathan Zittrain
Establishing networks of researchers from different technical and social science research disciplines to begin to develop a Web Science research agenda through the exchange of PhD students and collaborative workshops.
Participants: Dr Annamaria Carusi, Professor Paul Allan David, Dr Matthijs den Besten, Professor William H. Dutton, Dr Kathryn Eccles, Dr Marina Jirotka, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Professor Christopher Millard, Professor Michael Parker, Dr Justine Pila, Professor Tina Piper, Professor Ralph Schroeder, Dr Michael Spence, Professor David Vaver
The Oxford e-Social Science project aims to understand how e-Research projects negotiate various social, ethical, legal and organizational forces and constraints, in order to help researchers avoid these problems when building scientific collaborations.
Participants: Dr Cristobal Cobo, Dr Daniel Villar-Onrubia
OportUnidad is an action-research project co-funded by the European Commission under the EuropeAid ALFA III programme with the aim of promoting the adoption of Open Educational Practices in Latin America.
Participants: Professor William H. Dutton
ODEC aims to foster collaboration between researchers, businesses and public sector groups in the digital, Internet, and creative industries. It supports the projects and priorities of the newly established Connected Digital Economy Catapult (CDEC).
Participants: Professor Eric T. Meyer, Professor Ralph Schroeder, Malte Ziewitz
Presence research focuses on understanding and controlling the cognitive experience of being somewhere, or someone: we are analysing social impact scenarios to raise and address potential ethical and policy issues relating to Presence technologies.
Participants: Professor Paul Allan David, Professor William H. Dutton, Dr Robert Ackland, David A. Bray, Irene Cassarino, Karen Croxson, Professor Jean-Michel Dalle, Dr Matthijs den Besten, Dr Tobias Escher, Dr Aldo Geuna, Dr Max Loubser, Dr Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Felix Reed-Tsochas, Dr Wolf Richter, Philipp Tuertscher
Addressing the uncertainties that surround the coordination and performance of 'Distributed Problem Solving Networks' (DPSN), as well as the areas in which these new Internet-based forms offer advantages over more familiar modes of problem-solving.
Participants: Dr Marina Jirotka, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Melissa Terras, Dr Will Venters, Dr Sally Wyatt, Dr Monica Bulger, Dr Monica Bulger, Dr Annamaria Carusi, Avgousta Kyriakidou, Dr Lucy Power, Dr Andrea Scharnhorst, Professor Ralph Schroeder, Peter Williams
Exploring the information seeking, organizing, archiving and communicating capacities of physical sciences communities as a study case (and role model) for effective information processing regimes and behaviours in complex problem-solving tasks.
Participants: Professor Ian Brown
The use of multimedia conferencing tools has become widespread within the business world, and the project's aim is to extend these tools to work within a mobile environment.
Participants: Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Sally Wyatt, Dr Meghan Dougherty, Dr Christine Madsen, Dr Arthur Thomas, Dr Charles van den Heuval
This project explores how to bridge the gap between archivists and researchers, and how preserved web content archives might be used by researchers and others to ask meaningful new questions.
Participants: Professor Paul Allan David, Dr Michael Spence
A project examining how the social, institutional and legal settings of scientists are likely to facilitate or constrain the conduct of e-science, focusing on policy recommendations to facilitate greater collaboration between universities internationally.
Participants: Michael Popham, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Judith Siefring
SECT will carry out an investigation into the sustainability of the EEBO-TCP corpus and aims to develop strategies to secure a sustainable future for the collection.
Participants: Professor Paul Allan David, Professor William H. Dutton, Professor Paul Jeffreys, Dr Marina Jirotka, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Professor Ralph Schroeder, Professor Anne Trefethen
The e-Horizons Institute researched the coming technological breakthroughs in e-science that will have cross-sector social and economic implications as they are taken up by business, government and other actors.
Participants: Dr Chris Davies, Professor Rebecca Eynon, Professor John Furlong, Melissa Highton, Dr Lars Malmberg
This project, initiated as part of Becta's major programme of research in support of the Government's Harnessing Technology strategy, looked at the learning opportunities afforded by young people's uses of new technologies in their everyday lives.
Participants: Dr Chris Davies, Professor Rebecca Eynon, Professor Yorick Wilks
The Learning Companion project aims to evaluate the feasibility of a computer-based digital tool to help adults whose engagement with learning is tentative or hard to sustain make productive use of the Internet for achieving their own learning projects.
Participants: Professor William H. Dutton, Professor Ralph Schroeder, Professor Alexandre Caldas
The World Wide Web of Science project assesses whether, and to what extent, the Internet and the Web are transforming access to sources of scientific expertise, and whether these sources are becoming more concentrated or more diversified.
Participants: Dr Monica Bulger, Professor William H. Dutton, Professor Rebecca Eynon
ULab will work as a University Laboratory, systematically reviewing, evaluating and experimenting with current practice in research, valorization, entrepreneurship and outreach activities in each of the five partner universities.
Participants: Professor Eric T. Meyer, Professor Ralph Schroeder, Dr Arthur Thomas
Web archives are the best hope for future researchers to understand the web of yesterday and today, but efforts to ensure that archives will be useful are lagging. This report asks what challenges web archives face, and suggests how to address them.
Participants: Professor Paul Allan David
Paul David directed a major international networked project on the 'free / libre / open source' approach to software development, virtual communities and the broader implications of 'the "open source" way of working'.
Participants: Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Robert Ackland, Professor William H. Dutton, Dr Christine Madsen, Professor Ralph Schroeder
Establishing a framework for e-Humanities research using available open source tools and technologies and archived web content to create novel research interfaces to the first of many, scholarly, e-Humanities web collections.