Current
Member, Board of Trustees, Archive of IT (AIT), 2021- [Vice Chair, 2022-2023]
Member of the Advisory Council of the Alexander Von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), 2012-
Member of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 2014-
Member of the James H. and Mary C. Quello Center Advisory Board, 2014-
Member, Board of Directors of the TPRC, The Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy, 2018-
External Academic Advisor for the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2021-2024
Member of the Advisory Board of the Portulans Institute, 2020-
Member of Advisory Board for Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2021-
Advisory Editorial Board of Information & Culture: Journal of History, 2012-
Chinese Journal of Communication, 2007-
Info: The Journal for Policy, Regulation and Strategy, 2009-
Journal Philosophy & Technology, 2010-
Advisory Editor: International Journal of Communication (2006- )
Past
Editor: Information, Communication and Society (iCS), an international journal for the information age, published by Routledge (1997- 2017).
Associate Editor: Communications and Organizational Impact Studies (1986-2009), Internet Studies, Social Science Computer Review (2010- )
E-Editor: Prometheus: The Journal of Issues in Technological Change, Innovation, Information Economics, Communications and Science Policy (1997-2009)
Guest Editor: Sproull, L., Dutton, W., and Kiesler, S. (2007), Special Issue on ‘Online Communities’, Organization Studies, 3 (March): 277-410.
Editor: Dutton, W. H. (2009), Special Issue on ‘Key Enablers for eTransformation?’, European Journal of e-Practice, Vol. 6, January. Available online at: http://www.epracticejournal.eu/volume/6
Editor: Loader, B. D., and Dutton, W. H. (2012), ‘A Decade in Internet Time’, A Special Issue of Information Communication & Society, 15(5): 609-15.
Guest Editor: Seale, J. and Dutton, W. H. (2012) (eds), ‘Digital Inclusion and Learning’, a special issue of Research in Learning Technology, Vol. 20, Issue 4, http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt
Special Issue Editor with N. Shadbolt, W. Hall, J. A. Hendler, W. H. Dutton (2013), ‘Web Science: A New Frontier’, Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society, Vol. 371, No. 1987.
Guest Editor: Ess, C. and Dutton, W. H.: ‘Internet Studies’ for a special issue of New Media & Society, forthcoming.
Guest Editor: Dutton, W. H., Haigh, T. and Russell, A. (eds), ‘Histories of the Internet’, a special issue for the journal Information & Culture, in progress.
Editorial Boards: Informatization and the Public Sector (1990-95); Information & Management (1980-1995); Computers and the Social Sciences (1984-86); International Journal of Electronic Government Research (2004- ), Journal of Communication (1991-1996); Prometheus (1996); Social Science Microcomputer Review (1984-86); The Urban Interest (1979-1983); Chinese Journal of Communication (2007- ); Info: The Journal for Policy, Regulation and Strategy (2009- ); Journal Philosophy & Technology (2010- ); Advisory Editorial Board of Information & Culture: Journal of History (2012- ).
Referee: Administration and Society; American Politics Quarterly; Columbia University Press; Communication Monographs; Communication Research; Communications of the ACM; Information, Communication and Society (iCS), International City Management Association; IEEE Technology and Society Magazine; Informatization and the Public Sector; The Information Society; Journal of Communication; Journal of Urban Affairs; MacArthur Foundation; Management Communications Quarterly;Management Science; MIT Press; National Science Foundation; Oxford University Press; Policy Studies Journal; Polity; Prometheus, Routledge; Sage; Social Problems; Social Science Computer Review; Telecommunications Policy; University of California Press; The Urban Interest, Yale University Press.