Oxford Internet Institute

19 August 2017

Authors: 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

16 July 2017

Authors: 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

7 July 2017

Authors: Bill Dutton

I’ve written/blogged about the inevitable rise of digital diplomacy, and the need to adapt to it. President Donald Trumps’ use of Twitter is testing the patience of the foreign ... Read More Twitter Diplomacy Not Going Away: Taiwan Joins the Twittersphere

10 June 2017

Authors: 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?

11 March 2017

Authors: 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

31 January 2017

Authors: Bill Dutton

I have not taught an undergraduate course on the Internet and society for quite some time, but when I did, at USC, I had George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four on ... Read More Orwell’s 1984: Must Reading for the Digital Age

7 January 2017

Authors: 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

5 January 2017

Authors: 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

3 January 2017

Authors: Bill Dutton

Email Disrupting Life at Home? Careful What You Ask For In France and other nations there is discussion of somehow banning email after 6pm or outside of working hours. ... Read More Email Disrupting Life at Home?

4 December 2016

Authors: Bill Dutton

Aspects of my work on the role of distributed intelligence in problem solving, what I have called distributed collaborative networks, was published in English as Dutton, W. H. (2015), ... Read More Forthcoming Ukrainian Publication on Distributed Intelligence

20 November 2016

Authors: Bill Dutton

Fake News is a Wonderful Headline but Not a Reason to Panic I feel guilty for not jumping on the ‘fake news’ bandwagon. It is one of the new ... Read More Don’t Panic over Fake News

21 October 2016

Authors: Bill Dutton

It was a real honour today to speak with some of the alumni (a new word for Oxford) of the Oxford Internet Institute’s DPhil programme. A number came together ... Read More 10th Anniversary of OII’s DPhil in Information, Communication & the Social Sciences

8 October 2016

Authors: 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

19 September 2016

Authors: 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