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Start date:
Jul 2002
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End date:
Dec 2007
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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.
Overview
Outcomes from the use of the Internet in many different, overlapping and interacting arenas are shaped by everyday and strategic choices about the design and use of the technology. These are made by individuals, groups, organisations and other stakeholders as they cooperate and compete, negotiate and dispute according to a set of rules and assumptions about how to achieve particular objectives, for example by technologists to create more elegant solutions, business executives to maximise profits, children to learn, contact friends, play games, listen to music, and so on.
This research investigated 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.
People
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Professor William H. Dutton
Oxford Internet Institute
Articles
- 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., 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.
Books
- Dutton, W.H. (1999) Society on the Line. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 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.
Working papers
- 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., 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.