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Cyber Insecurity

Bill Dutton Cybersecurity, Digital Policy, Friends and Colleagues, General Interest, Internet and Everyday Life, Social Informatics, Social Issues, Socio-technical Systems , , , , ,

If I tell friends and colleagues that I am working on a ‘cybersecurity project’, I can see them mentally move along to other topics. In sounds technical and only technical.   Arguably, most internet users and ordinary people generally see cybersecurity as a technical field – one that is likely to be impenetrable or uninteresting … Continue reading Cyber Insecurity

Cultural and Social Dimensions of Cybersecurity

Bill Dutton Cybersecurity, Digital Policy, General Interest, Information Communication and the Social Sciences , , , ,

I have been working over the past years with Oxford's Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre (GCSCC), which is associated with the Oxford Martin School and Department of Computer Science at Oxford, as well as several other departments, including the OII, and Saïd Business School. My own work has been focused on bringing the social sciences … Continue reading Cultural and Social Dimensions of Cybersecurity