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WhoTF is the Oxford Internet Institute?[0] I understand I'm just a dumb American, but is the OII something anyone knows anything about? [0]https://www.oii.ox.
by phjesusthatguy3 7y ago
WhoTF is the Oxford Internet Institute?[0]
I understand I'm just a dumb American, but is the OII something anyone knows anything about?
[0]https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/
- rwmj 7y agoIt's a department in the University of Oxford. Unlike all those "Oxford School of English" type of places, this one is actually noteworthy and part of the real university.
- phjesusthatguy3 7y agoThank you. It looks like what I think BuzzFeed looks like but I was wrong.
- dijit 7y agoac.uk is reserved for academic institutions in the UK (akin to .edu for Americans). ox.ac.uk is Oxford university. OII is a project stemming from this university. Something like this is akin to MITs IPRI[0] [0]: https://internetpolicy.mit.edu/ https://internetpolicy.mit.edu/
- pmyteh 7y agoThe web page you have linked literally has "A multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet" at the top of the page. The internal organisation of Oxford is definitely weird (I did my doctorate at the OII and most of the university didn't know we existed or thought we were part of computer science) but it's not that obscure.
- phjesusthatguy3 7y agomea culpa. And thank you.
- phjesusthatguy3 7y agoThis is like the time I stood up in class and said "why do I care what X had to say about this?" not knowing that X was the president of the university.