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    • What Happened to our Academic Culture?

      23 August 2017

      Author:

      Bill Dutton

      Universities – along with their centers, departments, and colleges – vary greatly in the vibrancy of their respective academic culture (intellectual climate). Nevertheless, no university can be complacent about ...
      Read More What Happened to our Academic Culture?

    • Pack Journalism – Digitally Networked

      19 August 2017

      Author:

      Bill Dutton

      Digitally Networked Pack Journalism Pack journalism is not only alive and well in the digital age, it is arguably more prominent than it could ever be in the analogue ...
      Read More Pack Journalism – Digitally Networked

    • Talks in Europe on Quello Center’s Search and Politics Project

      16 July 2017

      Author:

      Bill Dutton

      I had a fascinating and challenging week in Europe speaking about the Quello Center’s work on search and politics. The findings of our project, called ‘The Part Played by ...
      Read More Talks in Europe on Quello Center’s Search and Politics Project

    • Should Tweeting Politicians be able to Block Users?

      10 June 2017

      Author:

      Bill Dutton

      An interesting debate has been opened up by lawyers who have argued that President Trump should not block Twitter users from posting on Twitter. I assume this issue concerns ...
      Read More Should Tweeting Politicians be able to Block Users?

    • Talk on the politics of the Fifth Estate at University Institute of Lisbon, March 2017

      11 March 2017

      Author:

      Bill Dutton

      I had a quick but engaging trip to Portugal to speak with students and faculty at CIES at the University Institute of Lisbon. I have given a number of ...
      Read More Talk on the politics of the Fifth Estate at University Institute of Lisbon, March 2017

    • Russian Hacking and the Certainty Trough

      7 January 2017

      Author:

      Bill Dutton

      Views on Russian Hacking: In a Certainty Trough? I have been amazed by the level of consensus, among politicians, the press and the directors of security agencies, over the ...
      Read More Russian Hacking and the Certainty Trough

    • Twitter Foreign Policy and the Rise of Digital Diplomacy

      5 January 2017

      Author:

      Bill Dutton

      Recent Chinese concerns over ‘Twitter Foreign Policy” are just the tip of the iceberg on the ways in which the Internet has been enabling diplomacy to be reconfigured, for ...
      Read More Twitter Foreign Policy and the Rise of Digital Diplomacy

    • The 2016 US Presidential Election and the Institution of the Presidency

      8 October 2016

      Author:

      Bill Dutton

      One of the classic works on the governance of England is Walter Bagehot’s (1867) The English Constitution. He observed that through the evolution of its unwritten Constitution entailed two ...
      Read More The 2016 US Presidential Election and the Institution of the Presidency

    • A Virtual Professor: Putting Herself in the Hands of Others

      19 September 2016

      Author:

      Bill Dutton

      The Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University had one of its (now) annual retreats on a beautiful Friday in the clubhouse of a local golf course. ...
      Read More A Virtual Professor: Putting Herself in the Hands of Others

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