OXFORD UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES MULTIDISCIPLINARY DOCTORAL PROGRAMME FOCUSED ON INTERNET STUDIES The Oxford Internet Institute is now accepting worldwide applications from candidates who want to study the Internet and its social impact. We are a department of Oxford University chartered to pioneer the multidisciplinary study of the Internet. The Institute is dedicated to engaging in fruitful collaboration with policy makers, technologists, businesspeople, teachers, scholars and civil society entrepreneurs to inform and ground our research. We seek to understand the most difficult and relevant social puzzles, problems, and opportunities as the mainstream Internet enters the second decade of a multi-year buildout transforming the fundamentals of work, politics, education, entertainment, social interaction, and conflict. A small group of full-time doctoral students will join the OII in October 2006. Candidates must demonstrate talent, creativity, and zeal to perform outstanding research that will make a difference to the world -- to ask original, concrete questions, to adopt incisive methodologies by which to approach those questions, and ultimately to help positively shape the development of digital networked space and the peoples whose lives it affects. For more information on the OII's D.Phil programme in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences, please visit <www.oii.ox.ac.uk/teaching/>. Kind Regards, Eleanor. ------- Administrative Officer Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS Tel: 01865 287210 Fax: 01865 287211