William H. Dutton

A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society University of Oxford 21-24 September 2011 Event: Symposium Location: OxfordUniversity of Oxford with sessions at the Social Sciences Manor Road Building, and Said Business School Organized by: Oxford Internet Institute and iCS (the journal Information, Communication and Society) Sponsors include: Routledge [...]

Roundtable organized by the Oxford Internet Institute in collaboration with the Programme on Comparative Media Law and Policy, University of Oxford Thursday 30 September 2010  12:30-14:00 Location: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles’ Oxford OX1 3JS Registration: Free but please e-mail your name and affiliation, if any, to events@oii.ox.ac.uk or telephone +44 [...]

Online Identities: Part of a Bigger Picture The issues surrounding identities online are complex and critically important, but they need to be addressed in relation to the larger ecology of issues in which they are embedded. Changes in the ways identity is handled on the Internet can have unintended consequences, such as jeopardizing the value [...]

Pleased to see this old article online as I continue to find confirmation of our basic finding: Information systems in local governments were most useful for ad hoc queries, such a providing a list of personel ranked by salary, in contrast to more rational-comprehensive management information reports. Simpy having information in digital form enabled managers [...]

A colleague of mine from my USC days, Guillermo Asper y Valdés, was in Oxford last week for a visit – but asking about UK research on personal health records. He and colleagues in Brazil and the US are undertaking research in this area. If anyone has suggestions of individuals he should contact, please let [...]

In a castle in a remote village of Dagstuhl, Germany, about a dozen colleagues from the social and computer sciences debated the role that information and communication technologies could play in shaping democratic structures and processes. We co-produced a long set of notes, and then sought to edit this down to a brief overview of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A report commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, entitled ‘Database State’ (Anderson et al 2009), has captured significant media coverage. Reuters headlines its coverage of the report with ‘Quarter of state databases “should be scrapped”. The claims are indeed alarming, and it is not surprising that they have gained media attention. Moreover, the report [...]

An interim report, entitled ‘Digital Britain’, outlines a set of proposals by the UK government that should have major implications across all sectors of information and communication policy and practice in the UK and beyond. The report is available at: http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/broadcasting/5631.aspx Let me encourage you to read and comment on the report at a public [...]