William H. Dutton (B.A. University of Missouri; M.A., PhD.
SUNYBuffalo, 1974)
William H. Dutton is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor of Internet Studies, University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of Balliol College. Bill is also Co-Director of the e-Horizons Project, Director and Principal Investigator of the Oxford e-Social Science (OeSS) Project, a node within the UK’s National Centre for E-Social Science (NCeSS), and Principal Investigator of the Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS).
Currently working on the potential for the emergence of a Fifth Estate enabled by the Internet, the rise of Collaborative Network Organizations (CNOs), and the diffusion and implications of innovations in e-Research – the use of advances in the Internet and related ICTs in research across the disciplines.
- Download article: Through the Network (of Networks) – the Fifth Estate
- Download slides: The Fifth Estate and its Enemies: How the Internet Enables New Forms of Social Accountability
- Listen to the presentation pod cast
Bill Schwarz
Bill Schwarz’s research focuses on postcolonial history, with particular emphasis on the end of the British empire. Most of his recent work has concentrated on Caribbean writing of the twentieth
century, both fiction and non-fiction. He addresses too historiographical questions concerning the theoretical underpinnings of postcolonial history, and the relations between history and memory.
He is currently writing a short book provisionally called How Britons came to know US Civil Rights and Black Power, which forms the basis for his talk in Helsinki, concentrating on media forms. Most recently he has edited West Indian Intellectuals in Britain (2003), The Locations of
George Lamming (2007), and Caribbean Literature After Independence: the case of Earl Lovelace (2008).
His three-volume Memories of Empire is due from Oxford University Press at the end of 2009. Also due for publication in the same year are Conversations with Stuart Hall (Polity) and, co-edited with Susannah Radstone, Mapping Memory (Fordham University Press).
Since arriving at Queen Mary in 2004 he has co-organized an event ‘Celebrating African Literature’ (with readings by Chinua Achebe); a symposium on Earl Lovelace; a large international conference on James Baldwin; and an evening for Stuart Hall.
He is an editor of History Workshop Journal, New Formations and Visual Culture in Britain.