William H. Dutton

The launch seminar of our ESRC Seminar Series, ‘Digital Policy: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights’, was held Friday, 1 April 2011. This first seminar was held at the Centre City Campus of the University of Wales in Newport and hosted by the School of Art, Media and Design. Professor Gillian Young, recently appointed at the University [...]

A new ESRC Research Seminar Series on Digital Policy: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights will be launched at University of Wales, Newport, on April 1 2011. This event ‘Digital Wales: Inclusive Creativity and Economy’ is hosted by the School of Art, Media and Design. The main project Web site is at: http://idl.newport.ac.uk/digitalpolicy/ The day features speakers [...]

Our manuscript has been published by UNESCO in a print edition, also available online.  The citation is: William H. Dutton, Anna Dopatka, Michael Hills, Ginette Law, and Victoria Nash (2011), Freedom of Connection – Freedom of Expression: The Changing Legal and Regulatory Ecology Shaping the Internet. Paris: UNESCO, Division for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and [...]

The Oxford University Library System – specifically the Subject Librarian most closely involved with Internet-related research – has decided to create a category for the library of ‘Media and Internet Studies’. These categories are listed in OxLIP+, and therefore significant in helping people to find work on the Internet. Of course, how Internet studies is [...]

Consumers and Internet Studies: a Workshop Monday 10th January 2011                8:30 – 16:00 Location: Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3-UOC), Media-TIC building, Carrer de Roc Boronat 117, 08018 Barcelona, Spain Registration: Registration has not yet opened. Speakers will include: Gustavo Cardoso, Lisbon Internet and Networks Institute, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa; William H. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Launch of World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities Wednesday 22 September 2010 16:00 – 18:00 Location: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles Oxford Registration: Email your name and affiliation to events@oii.ox.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)1865 287209 This event is an occasion to mark the publication by MIT Press of World [...]