Bill Dutton is the Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy at Michigan State University, where he is Director of the Quello Center. He was the OII’s Founding Director, a Fellow of Balliol College and the first Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University. 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.
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, 2011). He is currently editing a handbook on Internet Studies for Oxford University Press and a four volume series of readings on the Internet and Politics for Routledge.
His service includes chairing the Advisory Committee for England of the UK’s Office of Communications (Ofcom), and participating on the NHS Direct Innovation Committee.
He was Director of the OII from 2002 to 2011.
Internet and society, digital divides, digital choice, the Fifth Estate, network society, politics and the Internet, collaborative network organizations, research-centred computational networks, e-research
By Mark Graham (Editor) and William Dutton (Editor)
How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work? This volume addresses the big questions about one of the most significant technological transformations of this century.
This Oxford-based Centre aims become a leading global resource for understanding how to deliver effective cyber security; OII Fellows Bill Dutton and Ian Brown lead its work on security cultures and regulation.
ODEC aims to foster collaboration between researchers, businesses and public sector groups in the digital, Internet, and creative industries. It supports the projects and priorities of the newly established Connected Digital Economy Catapult (CDEC).
This research aims to identify patterns and trends in individual attitudes and behaviours related to online trust, privacy, security and freedom.
With Professor Victoria Nash, Professor Philip Howard, Professor Helen Margetts, Dr Andrew Graham, and Professor William H. Dutton
Join us for a panel discussion, with OII Directors past and present, reflecting on what the OII has achieved in the last 20 years, and how it hopes to address current and future technology challenges going forward.
With Professor William H. Dutton, Iain Dale, Cory Doctorow, Jonathan Ford, Professor Ben Goldacre, Simon Hampton, Dr David Levy, Cameron Neylon, Stefan Niggemeier, Andrew Rasiej, Felix Reed-Tsochas, Richard Sambrook, Dave Sifry, and Bill Thompson
This conference looks back at the evolution of blogs and other social media to give a nuanced understanding of the ways in which such tools have or have not made a difference at the social, political or economic level
With Professor William H. Dutton and Dr Grant Blank
In this talk, Dr Blank and Professor Dutton explain how a new pattern of Internet access is developing through the use of a growing variety of devices than enable increasing mobility.
With Professor William H. Dutton, Professor Victoria Nash, Professor Christine Borgman, Dr Andrew Graham, Professor Manuel Castells, Brian Loader, Vint Cerf, Dr Eszter Hargittai, Professor Barry Wellman, Dr Lisa Nakamura, and Dr Laura DeNardis
The Oxford Internet Institute and the journal, Information, Communication and Society co-organized a symposium to critically assess the last decade of social research on the Internet and identify directions for research over the next.
By Grant Blank, William H. Dutton, and Julia Lefkowitz
Mobile phones have become ubiquitous in everyday life. In this report, the 2019 Oxford Internet Survey is used to show just how dramatic their rise has been, as well as the uniquely UK dynamics of internet use on mobiles.
21 April 2023
British computer scientist Professor Yorick Wilks died on 14 April 2023 at the age of 83.
20 February 2020
As Britain becomes a digital society, findings from the latest Oxford Internet Survey report consider the social implications of the rise of mobile Internet use. Are mobile-only users are missing out on internet services, compared to other groups?
18 July 2019
Professor Mark Graham and Professor William H. Dutton today launch a revised edition of their popular academic reader ‘Society and the Internet, How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing Our Lives’.
23 August 2017
Financial Times, 20 March 2025
After social media rattled the old gatekeepers of information, new digital ones have emerged
The Times, 03 January 2022
Groups spreading misinformation about Covid-19 lockdowns and vaccines are starting to use the same language to spread conspiracy theories about climate change, experts have warned.
