Professor William H. Dutton

• Director, July 2002 -
• Professor of Internet Studies, July 2002 -

Professor William H. Dutton is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor of Internet Studies, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College. Before coming to Oxford in 2002, he was a Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, where he is now an Emeritus Professor. In the UK, he was a Fulbright Scholar 1986-87, and was National Director of the UK's Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT) from 1993 to 1996.

In addition to directing the OII, Professor Dutton is Principal Investigator of the Oxford e-Social Science Project (OeSS), supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, and Principal Investigator of the Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS), a key resource on the use and impact of the Internet in Britain, that is one component of the World Internet Project, an international collaboration comprising over 20 nations.

His recent publications on the social aspects of information and communication technologies include Society on the Line (Oxford University Press, 1999), and Transforming Enterprise, co-edited (MIT Press, 2005), and World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities, co-edited with P. Jeffreys (MIT Press, 2010 forthcoming). He is currently editing a four volume series of readings on the Internet and Politics for Routledge.

Professor William H. Dutton's curriculum vitae

Research interests

Internet and society, digital divides, digital choice, the Fifth Estate, network society, politics and the Internet, collaborative network organizations, research-centred computational networks

Contact information

Professor William H. Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS, United Kingdom. Telephone: +44 (0)1865 287210 Fax: +44 (0)1865 287211 Email: director@oii.ox.ac.uk

Students

• Nesrine Abdel-Sattar, DPhil student

• Maja Andjelkovic, DPhil student

• Florian Bersier, DPhil student

• Jennifer A. De Beer, DPhil student

• Michael Hills, DPhil student

• Christine Madsen, DPhil student

• Bianca Reisdorf, DPhil student

Taught courses

• Social Research Methods and the Internet (Parts I and II)

Publications

• Dutton, W.H. (forthcoming) The Fifth Estate: Democratic Social Accountability through the Emerging Network of Networks. In: P.G.Nixon et al. (eds) Challenges to E-Government in Europe.
• Dutton, W.H., Helsper, E.J. and Reisdorf, B. (forthcoming) Trust and the Internet in the Web 2.0 Age. Information, Communication & Society.
• Dutton, W.H. (2010) Reconfiguring Access in Research: Information, Expertise and Experience. In: W.H.Dutton and P.Jeffreys (eds) World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Dutton, W.H. and Jeffreys, P. (eds) (2010) World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Dutton, W.H. and Meyer, E. (2010) Enabling or Mediating the Social Sciences: Opportunities and Risks of Bottom-Up Innovation. In: W.H.Dutton and P.Jeffreys (eds) World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Dutton, W.H. and Piper, T. (2010) The Politics of Privacy, Confidentiality and Ethics: Opening Research Methods. In: W.H.Dutton and P.Jeffreys (eds) World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Schroeder, R. and Fry, J. (2010) Disciplinary Differences in e-Research. In: Dutton, W.H. and Jeffreys, P. (eds) World Wide Research. Cambridge: MIT Press.
• Schroeder, R. den Besten, M. and David, P. (2010) Open Science and e-Science. In: Dutton, W.H. and Jeffreys, P. (eds) World Wide Research. Cambridge: MIT Press.
• Dutton, W.H. (2009) The Fifth Estate Emerging through the Network of Networks. Prometheus 27 (1) 1-15.
• Dutton, W.H. and Eynon, R. (2009) Networked Individuals and Institutions: A Cross-Sector Comparative Perspective on Patterns and Strategies in Government and Research. The Information Society 25 (3) 1-11.
• Dutton, W.H., Helsper, E.J. and Gerber, M.M. (2009) Oxford Internet Survey 2009 Report: The Internet in Britain. Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
• Miloshevic, D., Dopatka, A. and Dutton, W.H. (2009) The New Economic Context of Internet Governance. OII Forum Discussion Paper No. 15.
• Caldas, A., Schroeder, R. Mesch, G.S. and Dutton, W.H. (2008) Web Search and Access to Global Knowledge: Democratizing Expertise or Creating New Hierarchies? Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 13 (4) 769-793.
• Caldas, A., Schroeder, R., Mesch, G. and Dutton, W.H. (2008) Patterns of Information Search and Access on the World Wide Web: Democratizing Expertise or Creating New Hierarchies? Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 13 (4) 769-793.
• Dutton, W. and Eynon, R. (2008) The tools of networked individuals: parallel patterns and strategies for governmental and research institutions. eResearch08 Conference, University of Oxford, 11-13 September 2008.
• Dutton, W.H. (2008) Harnessing Internet User Power. eStrategies Europe 2 (4) 36-37.
• Dutton, W.H. (2008) Social Movements Shaping the Internet: The Outcome of an Ecology of Games. Chapter 19. In: M.Elliott and K.L.Kraemer (eds) Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous Computing. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., pp. 499-517.
• Dutton, W.H. (2008) The Fifth Estate: Democratic Social Accountability Through the Emerging Network of Networks. Internet Research 9.0: Rethinking Community, Rethinking Place, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 18 October 2008.
• Dutton, W.H. (2008) The Wisdom of Collaborative Network Organizations: Capturing the Value of Networked Individuals. Prometheus 26 (3) 211-230.
• Dutton, W.H. and Meyer, E.T. (2008) e-Social Science as an Experience Technology: Distance From, and Attitudes Toward, e-Research [Presentation Slides]. 4th International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, UK, 18-19 June 2008.
• Dutton, W.H. and Meyer, E.T. (2008) e-Social Science as an Experience Technology: Distance From, and Attitudes Toward, e-Research. 4th International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, UK, 18-19 June 2008.
• Dutton, W.H. and Meyer, E.T. (2008) eSocial Science: Awareness, Support and Practice. Presentation to Management Board of the UK National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS), 30 June 2008.
• Dutton, W.H. and Peltu, M. (2008) The New Politics of the Internet: Multi-stakeholder Policy-making and the Internet Technocracy. In: A.Chadwick and P.N.Howard (eds) Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics. London: Routledge, pp. 384-400.
• Dutton, W.H., David, P.A. and Richter, W. (2008) The Performance of Distributed Problem Solving Networks: Final Report on the OII-MTI Project. OII DPSN Working Paper series No. 1.
• Dutton, W.H., Helsper, E.J., Whitty, M.T., Buckwalter, G. and Lee, E. (2008) Mate Selection in the Network Society: The Role of the Internet in Reconfiguring Marriages in Australia, the United Kingdom and United States.
• Helsper, E.J., Dutton, W. and Gerber, M. (2008) To Be a Network Society: A Cross-National Perspective on the Internet in Britain. Oxford Internet Institute Research Report No. 17, University of Oxford.
• Meyer, E.T., Schroeder, R. and Dutton, W.H. (2008) The Role of e-Infrastructures in the Transformation of Research Practices and Outcomes. iConference 2008, UCLA, Los Angeles, LA, 28 February-1 March 2008.
• Rahman, M., Jirotka, M. and Dutton, W. (2008) Lost in Reality - The Case for Virtual Safe Settings. 4th International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, UK, 8-19 June 2008.
• Daw, M., Procter, R., Lin, Y., Hewitt, T., Jie, W., Voss, A., Baird, K., Turner, A., Birkin, M., Miller, K., Dutton, W., Jirotka, M., Schroeder, R., de la Flor, G., Edwards, P., Allan, R., Yang, X. and Crouchley, R. (2007) Developing an e-Infrastructure for Social Science. 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 7-9 October 2007.
• di Gennaro, C. and Dutton, W.H. (2007) Reconfiguring Friendships: Social relationships and the Internet. Information, Communication & Society 10 (5) 591-618.
• Dutton, W. (2007) Through the Network (of Networks) - the Fifth Estate. Presented at 'Through the Network (of Networks) - the Fifth Estate', University of Oxford, 15 October 2007.
• Dutton, W.H. (2007) Keynote address. Presented at Talisma's Customer Interaction Management (CIM) Conference on Businesses Practical of E-Commerce Experiences, London, 3 October 2007.
• Dutton, W.H. (2007) Reaching a digital plateau? The continuing diffusion of the Internet in Britain. National Digital Inclusion Conference 2007 — Transforming Technology, Empowering People, London, 24 April 2007.
• Dutton, W.H. (2007) Reconfiguring Access to Information and Expertise in the Social Sciences: The Social Shaping and Implications of Cyberinfrastructure. 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 7-9 October 2007.
• Dutton, W.H. and Helsper, E.J. (2007) Oxford Internet Survey 2007 Report: The Internet in Britain. Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
• Dutton, W.H. and Peltu, M. (2007) Reconfiguring Government–Public Engagements: Enhancing the Communicative Power of Citizens. Oxford Internet Institute Forum Discussion Paper No. 9, University of Oxford.
• Dutton, W.H. and Peltu, M. (2007) The Emerging Internet Governance Mosaic: Connecting the Pieces. Information Polity 12 (1-2) 63-81.
• Dutton, W.H., Palfrey, J. and Peltu, M. (2007) Deciphering the Codes of Internet Governance: Understanding the Hard Issues at Stake. Oxford Internet Institute Forum Discussion Paper No. 8, University of Oxford.
• Dutton, W.H., Shepherd, A. and di Gennaro, C. (2007) Digital Divides and Choices Reconfiguring Access. National and cross-national patterns of Internet diffusion and use. In: B.Anderson, M.Brynin, J.Gershuny and Y.Raban (eds) Information and Communication Technologies in Society. E-Living in a digital Europe. London: Routledge, pp. 31-45.
• Eynon, R. and Dutton, W.H. (2007) Barriers to Networked Governments: Evidence from Europe. Prometheus 25 (3) 225-242.
• Rice, R.E., Shepherd, A., Dutton, W.H. and Katz, J.E. (2007) Social interaction and the Internet: A comparative analysis of surveys in the US and Britain. In: A.N.Joinson, K.Y.A.McKenna, T.Postmes and U.-D.Reips (eds) Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 7-30.
• di Gennaro, C. and Dutton, W.H. (2006) The Internet and the Public: Online and Offline Political Participation in the United Kingdom. Parliamentary Affairs 59 (2) 299-313.
• Dutton, W. (2006) Ethical, Legal and Institutional Challenges of e-Research. ESRC Research Methods Festival, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, 17-20 July 2006.
• Dutton, W. (2006) Internet Generations. Presented at OII Research and Policy Workshop, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 27 March 2006.
• Dutton, W.H. and Liff, S. (2006) The Next Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS) 2007: Emerging Themes of Social Research. Presented at 'The Next Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS)', Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 24 November 2006.
• Dutton, W.H. and Shepherd, A. (2006) Trust in the Internet as an experience technology. Information, Communication & Society 9 (4) 433-451.
• Dutton, W.H. and Undheim, T.A. (2006) Learning from Experience in eGovernment: Why Projects Fail and Why they Succeed. Presented at the workshop 'Learning from Experience in eGovernment: Why Projects Fail and Why They Succeed', University of Oxford, 26 June 2006.
• Dutton, W.H., Carusi, A. and Peltu, M. (2006) Fostering Multidisciplinary Engagement: Communication Challenges for Social Research on Emerging Digital Technologies. Prometheus 24 (2) 129-149.
• Dutton, W.H., Margetts, H. and Eynon, R. (2006) Barriers to eGovernment. Presented at the workshop 'Learning from Experience in eGovernment: Why Projects Fail and Why They Succeed', University of Oxford, 26 June 2006.
• Procter, R., Batty, M., Birkin, M., Crouchley, R., Dutton, W.H., Edwards, P., Fraser, M., Halfpenny, P., Lin, Y. and Rodden, T. (2006) The National Centre for e-Social Science. UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2006, Nottingham, UK, 18-21 September 2006.
• Dutton, W.H. (2005) Afterword. In: S.de Freitas and C.Yapp (eds) Personalizing Learning in the 21st Century. Stafford, UK: Network Education Press, pp. 113-115.
• Dutton, W.H. (2005) Continuity and Change: A Perspective from an Earlier Decade. Presented at the 5th European Conference on eGovernment, Antwerp, 17 June 2005.
• Dutton, W.H. (2005) Foreword. In: R.Kling, H.Rosenbaum and S.Sawyer (eds) Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc.
• Dutton, W.H. and di Gennaro, C. (2005) Digital Inclusion: the 2005 Oxford Internet Survey. Whose Responsibility is Digital Inclusion?, OII-ippr workshop, London, 11 April 2005.
• Dutton, W.H. and di Gennaro, C. (2005) The Internet in Britain: the Oxford Internet Survey 2005. The Internet in Britain: the Oxford Internet Survey 2005, Oxford Internet Institute OxIS Workshop, London, 20 May 2005.
• Dutton, W.H. and Eynon, R. (2005) Breaking Barriers to e-Government: overcoming obstacles to improving European public services. Presented at the 5th European Conference on eGovernment, Antwerp, 17 June 2005.
• Dutton, W.H. and Peltu, M. (2005) The emerging Internet governance mosaic: connecting the pieces. Oxford Internet Institute Forum Discussion Paper No. 5, University of Oxford.
• Dutton, W.H. and Shepherd, A. (2005) Confidence and Risk on the Internet. In: R.Mansell and B.S.Collins (eds) Trust and Crime in Information Societies. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 207-244.
• Dutton, W.H., di Gennaro, C. and Millwood Hargrave, A. (2005) Oxford Internet Survey 2005 Report: The Internet in Britain. Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
• Dutton, W.H., Guerra, G.A., Zizzo, D.J. and Peltu, M. (2005) The cyber trust tension in E-government: Balancing identity, privacy, security. Information Polity 10 (1-2) 13-23.
• Dutton, W.H., Kahin, B., O'Callaghan, R. and Wyckoff, A.W. (eds) (2005) Transforming Enterprise: The Economic and Social Implications of Information Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Schroeder, R., Caldas, A., Mesch, G. and Dutton, W. (2005) The World Wide Web of Science: Reconfiguring Access to Information. NCeSS First International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, UK, 22-24 June 2005.
• Schroeder, R., Caldas, A., Mesch, G. and Dutton, W. (2005) The World Wide Web of Science: Reconfiguring Access to Information. NCeSS First International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, UK, 22-24 June 2005.
• Dutton, W.H. (2004) Continuity or Transformation? Social and Technical Perspectives on Information and Communication Technologies. In: W.H.Dutton, B.Kahin, R.O'Callaghan and A.W.Wyckoff (eds) Transforming Enterprise. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 13-24.
• Dutton, W.H. (2004) Iron Laws of Cyberspace? The Need for Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Computers and Law 15 (3) 17-21.
• Dutton, W.H. (2004) Out of the Dot-com Bubble: A New Opportunity for Internet Research. In: M.Consalvo, N.Baym, J.Hunsinger, K.B.Jensen, J.Logie, M.Murero and L.R.Shade (eds) Internet Research Annual, 2000-2002 (Vol. I). New York, Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 46-54.
• Dutton, W.H. (2004) Social transformation in an information society: rethinking access to you and the world. UNESCO Publications for the World Summit on the Information Society.
• Dutton, W.H. (2004) The Internet and Social Transformation: Reconfiguring Access. In: W.H.Dutton, B.Kahin, R.O'Callaghan and A.W.Wyckoff (eds) Transforming Enterprise. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 375-397.
• Dutton, W.H., Cheong, H. and Park, N. (2004) The Social Shaping of a Virtual Learning Environment: The Case of a University-wide Course Management System. Electronic Journal of e-Learning 2 (1) 69-80.
• Dutton, W.H., Cheong, P.H. and Park, A. (2004) An Ecology of Constraints on e-Learning in Higher Education: The Case of a Virtual Learning Environment. Prometheus 22 (2) 131-149.
• Dutton, W.H., Gillett, S.E., McKnight, L.W. and Peltu, M. (2004) Bridging broadband Internet divides: reconfiguring access to enhance communicative power. Journal of Information Technology 19 (1) 28-38.
• Martin, U., Liff, S., Dutton, W.H. and Light, A. (2004) Rocket science or social science? Involving women in the creation of computing. Oxford Internet Institute Forum Discussion Paper No. 3, University of Oxford.
• Nash, V., Dutton, W.H. and Peltu, M. (2004) Innovative pathways to the next level of e-learning. Oxford Internet Institute Forum Discussion Paper No. 2, University of Oxford.
• Dutton, W.H. (2003) Information Society. In: D.H.Johnston (ed.) Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications (Vol. 2). London: Academic Press, pp. 407-418.
• Dutton, W.H. (2003) The Internet and Society. In: C.E.Barfield, G.Heiduk and P.J.J.Welfens (eds) Internet, Economic Growth and Globalization: Perspectives on the New Economy in Europe, Japan and the US. London: Springer, pp. 311-322.
• Dutton, W.H. and Nainoa, F. (2003) The Social Dynamics of Wireless on September 11: Reconfiguring Access. In: A.M.Noll (ed.) Crisis Communications: Lessons from September 11. New York, Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., pp. 69-81.
• Dutton, W.H. and Shepherd, A. (2003) Trust in the Internet: the social dynamics of an experience technology. Oxford Internet Institute Research Report No. 3, University of Oxford.
• Dutton, W.H., Gillett, S.E., McKnight, L.W. and Peltu, M. (2003) Broadband Internet: the power to reconfigure access. Oxford Internet Institute Forum Discussion Paper No. 1, University of Oxford.
• Dutton, W.H., Rose, R. and Shepherd, A. (2003) How much is enough for the Internet? Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
• Guerra, G.A., Zizzo, D.J., Dutton, W.H. and Peltu, M. (2003) Economics of Trust in the Information Economy: Issues of Identity, Privacy and Security. Oxford Internet Institute Research Report No. 1, University of Oxford.
• Lin, W.-Y. and Dutton, W.H. (2003) The 'Net' Effect in Politics: The 'Stop the Overlay' Campaign in Los Angeles. Party Politics 9 (1) 124-136.
• Dutton, W.H. and Lin, W.-Y. (2002) E-Democracy: A Case Study of Web-Orchestrated Cyberadvocacy. In: J.Armitage and J.Roberts (eds) Living with CyberSpace: Technology and Society in the 21st Century. London: The Athlone Press.
• Dutton, W.H. and Nainoa, F. (2002) Say Goodbye...Let's Roll: The Social Dynamics of Wireless Networks on September 11. Prometheus 20 (3) 237-245.
• Dutton, W. and Lin, W.-Y. (2001) Using the Web in the democratic process. The Web-orchestrated 'Stop the Overlay' cyber-campaign. European Review 9 (2) 185-199.
• Doctor, S., Dutton, W.H. and Elberse, A. (1999) An American democracy network: factors shaping the future of on-line political campaigns. Parliamentary Affairs 52 (3) 535-552.
• Dutton, W.H. (1999) Society on the Line. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Dutton, W.H., Elberse, A. and Hale, M. (1999) A case study of a Netizen's guide to elections. Communications of the ACM 42 (12) 48-54.
• Dutton, W.H. (1996) Network rules of order: regulating speech in public electronic fora. Media, Culture and Society 18 (2) 269-290.
• Dutton, W.H. (1995) The Ecology of Games and Its Enemies. Communication Theory 5 (4) 379-392.
• Dutton, W.H. (1992) Political Science Research on Teledemocracy. Social Science Computer Review 10 (4) 505-522.
• Guthrie, K.K. and Dutton, W.H. (1992) The Politics of Citizen Access Technology: The Development of Public Information Utilities in Four Cities. Policy Studies Journal 20 (4) 574-597.

Projects

• Breaking Barriers to e-Government

  December 2004 - December 2007

  Investigating the legal, organisational, technological and other barriers to expanding effective eGovernment services using the Internet and to define possible solutions at a European level to overcome such obstacles.

• Civil society participation in the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS)

  August 2004 - April 2006

  Achieving a deeper understanding of the nature, extent and potential of civil society groups' participation in the 2003 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and ICT policy making by establishing a cross-sector academic / practitioner dialogue.

• Clinical and psychological characteristics of Internet gamblers: web-based survey

  July 2006 - December 2007

  Expanding our understanding of online gambling by undertaking a web-based survey of users of Internet gambling sites, covering areas such as demographic and occupational characteristics, psychological characteristics, and attitudes to risk.

• Cybertrust: The tension between privacy and security in an e-society

  July 2002 -

  Perceptions of trust in online activities are significant factors influencing the kinds and extents of Internet use and interactions: this work draws on Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS) data to explore and refine key social determinants of cybertrust.

• Digital Choices and the Reconfiguring of Access

  July 2002 -

  Research on how the use of the Internet in different, overlapping and interacting arenas is shaped by everyday and strategic choices about the design and use of the technology.

• Digitised Resources: A Usage and Impact Study

  June 2008 - April 2009

  This project combines quantitative and qualitative indicators to measure the impact of online scholarly resources and to develop a best practices toolkit that will allow assessment of the impact of digitisation projects by researchers and funding bodies.

• EICN working group on child protection and mobile phones

  April 2004 - July 2005

  An OII-led working group to gather information and develop policy recommendations about the practices of mobile network operators in Europe in relation to child protection in the era of third-generation (3G) multimedia mobile phones.

• GNS: Global Network of Societies Project

  November 2007 -

  Are the new ICTs being used in ways that reinforce existing structures of power and influence, but on a global scale? How is the diffusion of the Internet related to, and implicated in, other global societal trends?

• Internet and productivity in public services: innovative pathways for e-government

  August 2004 - January 2005

  Investigating indicators of productivity growth in public sector institutions across eight EU countries, including patterns and impacts of ICT use, organisational perspectives, and implications of the interaction of ICT usage and organisational processes.

• Internet governance

  October 2004 -

  A programme of seminars, forums and conferences informing our research on Internet governance.

• Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age

  January 2008 -

  The project uses survey data from Australian and UK couples to look at the significance and impact of the Internet on intimate relationships, including how people use ICTs to meet each other and maintain relationships, and how ICTs affect their behaviour.

• Networks for Web Science

  October 2007 - April 2009

  Establishing networks of researchers from different technical and social science research disciplines to begin to develop a Web Science research agenda through the exchange of PhD students and collaborative workshops.

• OeSS: The Oxford e-Social Science Project

  October 2005 -

  The Oxford e-Social Science project aims to understand how e-Research projects negotiate various social, ethical, legal and organizational forces and constraints, in order to help researchers avoid these problems when building scientific collaborations.

• OxIS: Oxford Internet Surveys

  January 2003 -

  Research on access, use and attitudes to the Internet in Britain based on biennial surveys covering (for example) digital and social inclusion and exclusion, social networking, safety and privacy concerns, Internet regulation, and behaviour.

• Performance of distributed problem-solving networks

  August 2007 - February 2008

  Addressing the uncertainties that surround the coordination and performance of 'Distributed Problem Solving Networks' (DPSN), as well as the areas in which these new Internet-based forms offer advantages over more familiar modes of problem-solving.

• Spam email: a qualitative study

  January 2000 - October 2004

  A qualitative study of how individuals view and manage unwanted email, particularly spam, based on semi-structured interviews of users.

• The e-Horizons Institute

  October 2005 - April 2009

  The e-Horizons Institute researches the coming technological breakthroughs in e-science that will have cross-sector social and economic implications as they are taken up by business, government and other actors.

• The Fifth Estate

  October 2007 -

  The Fifth Estate is a research project designed to examine critically the Internet's role in enabling new forms of democratic accountability and voice, comparable to the press of an earlier era.

• The World Wide Web of Science: emerging global sources of expertise

  April 2005 - March 2006

  The World Wide Web of Science project assesses whether, and to what extent, the Internet and the Web are transforming access to sources of scientific expertise, and whether these sources are becoming more concentrated or more diversified.

• WIP: World Internet Project

  January 2003 -

  The World Internet Project (WIP) carries out panel surveys in over twenty countries to help understand how individuals adopt and use the Internet and other technologies, as well as the resulting social, economic, political and everyday-life implications.

• World Wide Web of Humanities

  April 2008 - March 2009

  Establishing a framework for e-Humanities research using available open source tools and technologies and archived web content to create novel research interfaces to the first of many, scholarly, e-Humanities web collections.

Webcasts

• Studying at the Oxford Internet Institute

  Recorded on: 27 October 2008 Duration: 00:00:00

  Thinking about applying for our DPhil or MSc courses? Want to know more about what it's like to study at the OII? In this ten minute video, faculty and students talk about the OII's DPhil and MSc programmes.

• Social Networking Conference. Session 1: Online Social Networks

  Recorded on: 7 April 2008 Duration: 01:25:35

  A discussion of online social networks, covering online Social networks: 'Social Networks: Reconfiguring Access to People', 'Cyber tribes and information warfare' and 'Youth Work and Social Networking'.

• Social Networking Conference. Session 2: Intimate Relationships and Online Social Networks

  Recorded on: 7 April 2008 Duration: 00:38:11

  A discussion of intimate relationships and online social networks, covering intimate relationships and online social networks: 'Netiquette within Married Couples' and 'Stalking 2.0. Social Networking and Privacy: Incompatible Ideas?'.

• Social Networking Conference. Session 3: Businesses and Online Social Networks

  Recorded on: 7 April 2008 Duration: 01:06:40

  A discussion of businesses and online social networks, covering businesses and online social networks: 'Social networking and business practice: telecoms industry case study' and 'Social software in a hard world' and 'Wikipedia'.

• Through the Network (of Networks): The Fifth Estate

  Recorded on: 15 October 2007 Duration: 00:48:27

  The Internet and web are creating a new space for networking people, information and other resources: this has the potential to become an important 'fifth estate' to support greater accountability in politics, the media and other institutional arenas.

• Oxford Union Debate: Internet and Democratisation, Part 7

  Recorded on: 18 May 2007 Duration: 00:14:22

  Jonathan Zittrain speaks. Oxford Union Debate: 'This House believes that the Internet is the greatest force for democratisation in the World'

• Trust in the Internet as an Experience Technology

  Recorded on: 6 November 2006 Duration: 00:51:50

  Bill Dutton summarizes and discusses his paper 'Trust in the Internet as an experience technology' published in the journal Information, Communication and Society (iCS 9:433-451).

• Learning from Experience in eGovernment: Concluding comments

  Recorded on: 26 June 2006 Duration: 00:45:08

  Concluding comments from the 'Breaking Barriers to e-Goverment' project workshop: 'Breaking Barriers to eGovernment: Overcoming Obstacles to improving European Public Services'.

• Information, Communication and New Media Studies: Networking a Multidisciplinary Field

  Recorded on: 3 February 2006 Duration: 01:00:07

  Identifying the most promising approaches for connecting multidisciplinary research efforts focused on the growing social importance of ICTs in structuring diverse aspects of public life.

• Information, Communication and New Media Studies: Good for What?

  Recorded on: 2 February 2006 Duration: 01:40:01

  What do constituencies outside the research field expect from information, communication and media studies? Can it meet these expectations? Under what conditions? Perspectives are provided on the intersection between research and more applied agendas.

• CyberSafety Conference: Close / Ways Forward

  Recorded on: 9 September 2005 Duration: 01:34:10

  Closing notes from the 2005 Cybersafety Conference focusing on the complex web of issues, assumptions and trade-offs involved in improving online safety and security at a personal, national and international level.

• CyberSafety Conference: Introductions

  Recorded on: 9 September 2005 Duration: 00:27:03

  Introductions to the 2005 Cybersafety Conference, focusing on the complex web of issues, assumptions and trade-offs involved in improving online safety and security at a personal, national and international level.

News

• Ofcom appoints nine new board members

  10 February 2009 mobile news

  Professor William Dutton, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at Oxford University, is appointed as Chair of Ofcom's Advisory Committee for England and Member of the Advisory Committee for the South East region

• Professor of Internet Studies appointed Chair of Ofcom Advisory Committee

  5 February 2009 University of Oxford

  Professor William Dutton, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at Oxford University, is appointed as Chair of Ofcom's Advisory Committee for England and Member of the Advisory Committee for the South East region

• Director's Letter December 2008

  11 December 2008 Oxford Internet Institute

  The Director discusses the new MSc in Social Science of the Internet, the launch of the OII journal 'Policy and Internet', welcomes new students and visitors, and talks about the Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS) and the OII Summer Doctoral Programme 2009

• Director's Letter July 2008

  30 July 2008 Oxford Internet Institute

  The Director discusses recent news from the Oxford Internet Institute

• Director's Letter February 2008

  20 February 2008 Oxford Internet Institute

  The Director discusses recent news from the Oxford Internet Institute

• OII News: William Dutton's Inaugural Lecture (Webcast)

  17 October 2007 Oxford Internet Institute

  William Dutton: 'In my Inaugural Lecture on Monday at the University Examination Schools I discussed 'the Rise of a Fifth Estate in Internet Time and Space'. See the webcast, lecture text and photographs

• The Fifth Estate - through the network of networks

  16 October 2007 University of Oxford

  The impact of the Internet as a new form of social accountability and why it should be defined as 'the Fifth Estate' is the subject of an inaugural lecture by William Dutton, the Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University, on 15 October 2007

• Director's Letter July 2007

  3 July 2007 Oxford Internet Institute

  The Director discusses recent news from the Oxford Internet Institute

• New Virtual Research Seminar Series: Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Information Society

  22 January 2007 Oxford Internet Institute

  The OII has partnered with the Open University of Catalonia to offer a fully virtual doctoral seminar series over a period of six months. The collaboration will explore new teaching methods for the information age

• Director's Letter December 2006

  1 December 2006 Oxford Internet Institute

  The Director discusses recent news from the Oxford Internet Institute

• Director's Letter July 2006

  21 July 2006 Oxford Internet Institute

  The Director discusses recent news from the Oxford Internet Institute

• Director's Letter November 2005

  22 November 2005 Oxford Internet Institute

  The Director announces the new DPhil programme, Oxford e-Social Science Project, and OII-Berkman collaborative partnership, and discusses the cybersafety conference (webcasts available) and other recent events, and news about faculty and visitors

• Director's Letter June 2005

  15 June 2005 Oxford Internet Institute

  The Director discusses the appointment of Professor Jonathan Zittrain to the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation, the completion of the second Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS), and a seminar series focusing on civil society participation in the WSIS

• Director's Letter August 2004

  6 August 2004 Oxford Internet Institute

  The Director discusses the Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP), and other early OII activities such as participation in the European Internet Coregulation Network, launch of the Oxfrod Internet Surveys (OxIS), and the Cisco Visiting Professor of e-Democracy

• Director appointed for the Oxford Internet Institute

  18 April 2002 Oxford Internet Institute

  Professor William Dutton is appointed as the first Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, also becoming the University of Oxford's first Professor of Internet Studies and a Fellow of Balliol College

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