Digital Academe: A Perspective from Digital Social Research

William H. DuttonProfessor of Internet StudiesOxford Internet Institute (OII)

University of Oxford

Presentation for Oxford Journals Day Conference, Oxford University Press, 14 March 2012.

• Oxford Internet Surveys of Britain: 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 and World Internet Project (WIP)

• The Global Values Project: OII in collaboration with INSEAD, comScore, and WEF

• The Performance of Distributed Problem-Solving Networks (DPSN) Project (2007-8)

• The Oxford e-Social Science Project (OeSS), Economic and Social Research Council (2005-12)

• The Fifth Estate Project, supported by the OII, Oxford Internet Surveys (2003-2012), and June Klein, Electronic Boardroom™

Relevant Research

Oxford e-Social Science Project

Reconfiguring Access in Everyday Life and Work

Reconfiguring Access in Research

Empowering Networked Individuals

Researchers

Students

Networked Institutions & Individuals

Arena: Networked Institutions Networked Individuals

News Online journalism, BBC Online, Live Micro-Blogging

Netizens, Citizen Journalists, Bloggers, Whistleblowers, Leaks, Churnalism.org, Hacking Blacklash

Research Institutional Repositories, Institutional Clouds, Online Access to Libraries, Digitization of Holdings, Journals Online

Search, Subject Matter Repositories, Cloud Services, Citizen Scientists, Blogging (Lab Notes), Online Tools (Surveys, Content Analysis)

Education Online Learning, Multimedia Classrooms

Backchannels, Informal Learning, Rate My Teacher

Health and Medical NHS Direct, e-mailing safety alerts

Going to the Internet for health information, Networks of Patients, Physicians, e.g., Sermo

Implications of Networked Institutions and Individuals