Tobias Escher at the OII

I have been very lucky to be on this year’s Summer Doctoral Programme – a two-week doctoral workshop run by the OII for a number of years now with great success. This year it is in partnership with the Web Science Research Initiative by the likes of Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall and Danny Weitzner to name but a few.

However, the major asset are of course its students and there is a really fine group of 30 people assembled here in Oxford. Every student has to present his or her work and there is a long feedback session after each presentation. It has been very good so far and crucially it has forced me to synthesize a lot of my thoughts on my topic that has recently shifted considerably. In tune with many of my other activities I am now mainly focusing on political participation on the Web and the presentation gives an overview about my current approach. Feedback welcome!