William H. Dutton

Virginia Tech Launches April 16 Archive Coping with disasters like the shootings at Virginia Tech is difficult for many. In the aftermath of 9/11, some academics conducted research on the events. In my case, I looked at the use of wireless cell phones from all of the planes and crash sites, trying to draw some [...]

The journal Information Communication & Society (iCS) will be holding a conference on the 5th and 6th of September 2007, entitled ‘Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0′. For information about the conference see: http://www.york.ac.uk/res/siru/web2.0conferenceCFP.pdf I’d encourage you to consider submitting a paper or attending. These events are kept to numbers that enable interchange and [...]

I read so many silly news items about the Internet that it is about time to name a few. Here is one: A recent story by Fiona Hamilton in The Times (10 April 2007) is entitled ‘Are you surfing away your life on random searches?’. Apparently, so many people end up mindlessly surfing the Web [...]

I would like to draw your attention to a special issue of Organization Studies, entitled ‘Online Communities’ (Vol. 28, Issue 3, 2007). edited by Lee Sproull, Sara Kiesler and me. It has a strong set of articles, including a contribution that draws from Drew Ross’s doctoral thesis at Oxford. Drew’s article is entitled ‘Backstage with [...]

The OII in collaboration with the UK Cabinet Office held a policy forum last December 2006, focused on the potential for new Internet and Web applications for better engaging the ‘Google generation’ in government and public policy. This led to a report which is available from the OII and attached here. http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/dutton/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/FD9.pdf What, if anything, [...]

The 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science will be held in Ann Arbor, October 7-10, 2007. The initial announcement and Call for Submissions is below. I’d encourage social scientists interested in the development of e-research and its implications for the social sciences to attend. As the organizers state: “The aim of the conference on e-Social [...]