William H. Dutton

I’ve noticed a post of my book review of Republic.com 2.0, should you be interested in taking a somewhat more crticial look at Sunstein’s argument. See: http://www.craigbellamy.net/images/Loyal_to_the_daily_me.pdf

The OII is looking for a full-time Survey Research Assistant preferably with training in social-psychology, sociology or related social sciences and experience and skill in survey research and data analysis in an academic, government or business setting. Candidates should be able to design a database, or take a database from a survey firm or archive [...]

If you have an interest in the history of information and communication technologies, you might find real value in joining the IT History Society. I just discovered that there is no charge and no obligation for membership. The membership page is at http://ithistory.org/membership/membership.php. There is also an opportunity to list projects you are working on [...]

Professor Yorick Wilks, an OII Research Fellow and the PI of the EU Project on Digital Companions, has a concise and powerful overview of what he calls ‘machine conversationalists’ in a recent issue of Science (9 November 2007: Vol. 318. no. 5852, pp. 927 – 928. DOI: 10.1126/science.1148895). It is entitled: Is There Progress on [...]

On 7-8 June 2007, the OII held a public forum, entitled ‘The Management of Identity and Personal Information on the Internet: Public and Private Initiatives for Addressing the Problems’, followed by a one day invited forum. The public event was chaired by Jonathan Bamford of the Information Commissioner’s Office, and will began with a keynote [...]

Last week, at a seminar held at the James Martin 21st Century School, I was struggling over how to best capture the significance of e-research, in particular, and the social significance of technological change in information and communication technologies, more generally. Today, at a workshop at the OII, Carol Tullo, Director of the Office of [...]

I presented (with Dr Ralph Schroeder) an overview of how e-Research will reconfigure access to information and expertise in the coming years within a seminar series organized by the James Martin 21st Century School. It was entitled ’21st Century Research’, presented on 8 November 2007. I’ll post the slides if you are interested. http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/dutton/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/c21-nov07.pdf I [...]