Professor William H. Dutton
Director, 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. 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 Director and Principal Investigator of the Oxford e-Social Science Project (OeSS), a node within the UK's National Centre for e-Social Science, and Principal Investigator of the Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS), a key resource on the use and impact of the Internet in Britain, that is linked to the World Internet Project, 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).
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Selected publications
- Dutton, W.H. and Jeffreys, P. (eds) (forthcoming) World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
- 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. (2009) The Fifth Estate Emerging through the Network of Networks. Prometheus 27(1) 1-15.
- Dutton, W.H. (2008) The Wisdom of Collaborative Network Organizations: Capturing the Value of Networked Individuals. Prometheus 26(3) 211-230.
- 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.
- di Gennaro, C. and Dutton, W.H. (2007) Reconfiguring Friendships: Social Relationships and the Internet. Information Communication & Society 10(5) 591-618.
- Dutton, W.H. and Shepherd, A. (2006) Trust in the Internet as an experience technology. Information, Communication & Society 9:433-451.
- Dutton, W.H., Carusi, A. and Peltu, M. (2006) Fostering Multidisciplinary Engagement: Communication Challenges for Social Research on Emerging Digital Technologies. Prometheus 24:129-149.
- Di Gennaro, C. and Dutton, W.H. (2006) The Internet and the Public: Online and Offline Political Participation in the United Kingdom. Parliamentary Affairs 59:299-313.
- 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.
- Dutton, W., Guerra, G.A., Zizzo, D.J. and Peltu, M. (2005) The cyber trust tension in e-government: Balancing identity, privacy, security. Information Polity 10:13-23.
- Dutton, W.H. (2004) Social Transformation in the Information Society (Paris: UNESCO for the WSIS Series).
- 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 19:28-38.
- Dutton, W. H., Cheong, P. H. and Park, N. (2004) An Ecology of Constraints on e-Learning in Higher Education: The Case of a Virtual Learning Environment. Prometheus 22:131-149.
