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 [...]

Dear students and recent graduates, In 2011, the European Forum Alpbach will deal with “Justice – Responsibility for the Future”. From September 18 until September 3, 4.000 people from over 60 countries will once again come to the Tyrolian mountain village of Alpbach to discuss and explore current issues in the interdisciplinary setting of our [...]

My paper on ‘Networking Distributed Public Expertise: Strategies for Citizen Sourcing Advice to Government’ is one of a series of Occasional Papers in Science and Technology Policy, Science and Technology Policy Institute (TPI), Institute for Defense Analyses, Washington DC. I will post the abstract below and would welcome comments, directly or to this blog. Abstract [...]

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 [...]

This is a conference focused on information ethics, primarily from a philosophical perspective, but including a few empirical researchers such as myself and Helen Nissenbaum, and legal scholars, such as David Erdos. It is supported by the Uehiro Foundation, and organized by the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. Of course, [...]

I participated in a useful workshop on ‘Future Technology and Society’ in Brussels yesterday, 19 November 2010, organized by the Director General of the Information Society Programme (DG INFSO). I presented on ‘The Internet and Innovation for Society’ – my slides are available online through Slideshare at: http://www.slideshare.net/WHDutton/internet-and-innovation-for-society Presentations ranged from sweeping historical treatments on [...]

Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Network Society Professors Manuel Castells[1] and Bill Dutton[2] An Online Graduate Seminar at the Open University of Catalonia Autumn 2010 Professors Manuel Castells and Bill Dutton are offering their co-taught course on ‘Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Network Society’ during the Autumn of 2010 to graduate students at the Open University of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]