Social Informatics

Stay-at-Home Workers

Bill Dutton Cybersecurity, Digital Industries, General Interest, Internet and Everyday Life, Internet Studies, Social Informatics , , , , ,

Stay-at-home Workers: The Global Rise of Hybrid and Online Working from Home Bill Dutton and Patricia Esteve-Gonzalez The impact of lockdowns and working from home initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic has been substantial on such issues as who works from where. Our global survey of 7,330 respondents spread across 133 countries found that hybrid work … Continue reading Stay-at-Home Workers

Social Intelligence

Bill Dutton Arts and Humanities, Cybersecurity, Digital Industries, eGovernment, eHumanities, Fifth Estate, Friends and Colleagues, General Interest, Internet Studies, Social Informatics , , , , , ,

Social Intelligence: Fascinating progress in a new approach to understanding public issues. In research on governmental and management use of computing in the 1970s, I found that some of the most consequential management information was gained by mining operational data (Dutton and Kraemer 1978; Kraemer, Dutton, and Northrop 1981). For example, there was a complaint … Continue reading Social Intelligence

Robots: Commentary by A. Michael Noll

Bill Dutton General Interest, Internet Studies, Shaping the Internet, Social Informatics, Social Issues, Socio-technical Systems, Uncategorized , , ,

REIN IN THE CLOUD REJOICE IN THE ROBOTS [The following commentary is authored by A. Michael Noll, and posted with the permission of the author. It illustrates the disagreement among experts on the social implications of new technologies, such as robotics, AI, cloud computing, and the Internet, demonstrating the value of continued research on the … Continue reading Robots: Commentary by A. Michael Noll

Value Tradeoffs for a Cashless Society

Bill Dutton Cybersecurity, eGovernment, General Interest, Internet Studies, Shaping the Internet, Social Informatics, Social Issues, Social Science Research, Socio-technical Systems , , , , ,

A recent news story (Sunday Times 6 June 2021) highlighted the potential for Sweden to lead the way to a ‘cashless’ future.[1] Not surprising in the context of so many observable trends moving in this direction. However, it reminded me of the early forecasts of a cashless society that were debated in the 1970s, and sense, … Continue reading Value Tradeoffs for a Cashless Society

Downing of Ukrainian Flight #PS752 on 8 January 2020: An Information Disaster?

Bill Dutton General Interest, Research and Learning, Social Informatics, Social Science Research, Socio-technical Systems , , , , ,

In 1994, I helped organize a forum for the Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT) on what we called ‘ICT disasters’. We described and compared three cases, including the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the USS Vincennes, a US warship patrolling the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people on the plane. … Continue reading Downing of Ukrainian Flight #PS752 on 8 January 2020: An Information Disaster?

Society and the Internet’s 2nd Edition

Bill Dutton General Interest, Information Communication and the Social Sciences, Internet and Everyday Life, Internet Governance, Internet Studies, news, Political Implications, Shaping the Internet, Social Informatics, Social Issues , , , , , ,

The 2nd Edition of Society and the Internet should be out in July 2019. You can access information about the book from OUP here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/society-and-the-internet-9780198843504?lang=en&cc=de With the academic year fast approaching, we are hoping that the book will be useful for many courses around Internet studies, new media, and media and society. If you are teaching in this … Continue reading Society and the Internet’s 2nd Edition

Malaysian Airlines MH17: Studies of Information Disasters

Bill Dutton Social Informatics, Social Science Research, Socio-technical Systems, Uncategorized , , , , ,

Evidence is only beginning to develop about what led to the disaster that beset Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 over the Eastern Ukraine. However, it is likely to be compared with other military and large technical system disasters, such as when the USS Vincennes accidentally shot down a domestic Iranian Airline, Iran Flight 655 on 3 … Continue reading Malaysian Airlines MH17: Studies of Information Disasters

Inspiring a Startup Mentality in Legacy IT Organizations – FCC CIO at the OII on 19 June, 4-5pm

Bill Dutton *OIINEWS, CDEC, Cybersecurity, Digital Industries, Digital Policy, eGovernment, General Interest, Ofcom, OII, Social Informatics, Socio-technical Systems, Wisdom of Crowds , , , , ,

Modernizing and Inspiring a “Startup Mentality” in Legacy Information Technology Organizations Speakers: David A. Bray, Oxford Martin Associate and CIO of the U.S. FCC, Yorick Wilks, and Greg Taylor 19 June 2014 from 4-5 pm OII Seminar Room, 1 St Giles’, Oxford By some estimates, 70% of IT organization budgets are spent on maintaining legacy … Continue reading Inspiring a Startup Mentality in Legacy IT Organizations – FCC CIO at the OII on 19 June, 4-5pm

Web Science 2014: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Bill Dutton *OIINEWS, Cybersecurity, Dissemination, Internet Studies, Social Informatics, Social Science Research, Socio-technical Systems

The 6th ACM Web Science Conference will be held 23-26 June 2014 on the beautiful campus of Indiana University, Bloomington. Web Science continues to focus on the study of information networks, social communities, organizations, applications, and policies that shape and are shaped by the Web. The WebSci14 program includes 29 paper presentations, 35 posters with … Continue reading Web Science 2014: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION