Ellen J Helsper (Female)

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Interests:
Internet
Discipline(s)
Communications
Role(s):
Researcher

Current Institutional Affiliation(s)

Biography

Ellen Helsper is a Research Fellow at the OII responsible for the design, analysis and coordination of the Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS) and World Internet Project (WIP) Surveys. Previously she was a Tutorial Fellow and PhD student at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Projects that she has recently been involved in include a PhD about Internet use by disadvantaged teenagers, the UK Children Go Online project about internet use by 9 to 19 year olds for the LSE, a survey about the use of Open Source Software in Higher Educational Institutions for Oxford University, research about the effect of food advertising and R18 (sexual) material on young people for the Office of Communications (UK government) and evaluations of journalism training programs for the BBC.

Continuing projects in which she is involved are a consultancy project for international NGOs into the use of ICTs in developing countries to promote child development and rights and a reanalysis of government and academic databases related to media literacy in vulnerable groups in cooperation with the Office of Communications.

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