William H. Dutton

The WikiLeaks story continues to develop in ways that promise to keep this on the agenda for some time. Here are two online panel discussions I participated in, one on the Guardian blog, and the other on Al Jazerra, which might be of interest to those following the debate: Tech weekly:  WikiLeaks, Anonymous and cyber [...]

The ESRC has awarded my colleagues and I support for a seminar series on ‘Digital Policy: Connectivity, Creativity, and Rights’. This will involve: me and colleagues at the OII, University of Oxford; Dr Gillian Youngs, the principal applicant, recently appointed to a professorship at the Newport School of Art, Media and Design at University of [...]

UNESCO is holding an ‘International Symposium on Freedom of Expression‘ on 26 January 2011, with the support of the Swedish National Commission for UNESCO. One panel session will focus on freedom of expression on the Internet, and we also expect that our UNESCO publication, entitled ‘Freedom of Connection – Freedom of Expression‘, will be launched. [...]

UNESCO has an overview of the paper and presentation we made at the Internet Governance Forum in Vilnius available online. My co-authors and I will be revising the workshop paper for publication by UNESCO, scheduled before the end of the year. There is a link to the report within the news release, and also a [...]

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 [...]

Call for papers for a Workshop on ‘Consumers and Internet Studies’ Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (UOC) and Oxford Internet Institute Barcelona, Spain (10th January 2011) Organizers William H. Dutton, Professor of Internet Studies, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and Inma Rodriguez-Ardura, Associate Professor of Marketing, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Open University of Catalonia (Universitat Oberta de [...]

I will be on a panel at an Internet Society ‘INET’ event on the 29th of September 2010, entitled ‘The Internet Revolution: Opportunities, Threats and Challenges to your Business’. (I think ‘INET’ is simply a catchy phrase for an Internet meeting enabling colleagues to network. The Internet Society (ISOC) has been sponsoring INET conferences around [...]

Fifth Internet Governance Forum Vilnius, Lithuania, 14-17 September 2010 UNESCO Workshop 81 “Freedom of Connection – Freedom of Expression: The Changing Legal and Regulatory Ecology Shaping the Internet” Room 6,  Lithuanian Exhibition Centre LITEXPO, Vilnius 11:30-13:30, 14 September, 2010 Organizer: UNESCO This workshop is a follow-up of the well-attended discussion on Internet Censorship and Filtering [...]

I will be participating in a workshop session at the Internet Governance Forum in Vilnius this September on the 14th. The title of our paper and the session is Freedom of Connection — Freedom of Expression. Information about the session is available online from the IGF and the paper is posted on SSRN at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1654464 [...]