One of the newest departments within the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxford, the OII is already widely regarded as the world’s leading multi-disciplinary centre for research into the social dynamics of the Internet and related information and communication technologies (ICTs).
The 'network of networks' that is the Internet is one of the critical infrastructures of the 21st century. It reshapes our access to the world, exerting its impact on everyday life and work, governance and democracy, the economy, learning and research. While extending new opportunities to an ever-wider population globally, it also creates new challenges in the social, legal, ethical, institutional, political and technical spheres. We need your help to fulfil our role as an active and informed observer, interpreter and shaper of our increasingly networked world.