William H. Dutton

Here is a terrific video production on the 40 years of the Internet, produced by Intel. While it exaggerates the relationship of the Internet to national defense, and gives a sense of the Internet following a progressive trajectory rather than being reinvented and reconfigured over the years through an ecology of choices by a growing [...]

The Information Communication and Society (iCS) journal will be co-organizing a 3-day symposium on ‘Networking Democracy? New Media Innovations in Participatory Politics’ at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, from the 25th through the 27th of June, 2010. I plan to participate and hope to present some of the themes from the Dagstuhl Conference I attended late [...]

Balliol College is inviting applications for scholars of outstanding distinction or promise to be Oliver Smithies Lecturers at Balliol College, Oxford, for the academic year 2010-11. The closing date is 16 April but full details can be accessed on the Balliol College Web site. There are no subject matter restrictions, but Balliol appears to be [...]

The Oxford Internet Institute will be celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Internet by holding lectures by two of the most influential scholars focused on society and the Internet: Manuel Castells and Duncan Watts. Manuel Castells, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Oxford, and Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia, will be speaking on Thursday, [...]

There is a useful and insightful article in the Telegraph today that addresses the issues of getting older people online, and why it matters. It draws extensively from the thinking of Tony Watts, editor of Mature Times, and his reading of OII research — the Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS). There is also a piece in [...]

I participated in a useful workshop on issues of e-democracy, which my colleagues and I helped organize under the title ‘Democracy in a Network Society‘. It was held at the Castle (Schloss) Dagstuhl’s Leibniz Centre for Information Science. This and other Dagstuhl workshops are held over a period of one week in a relatively isolated [...]