William H. Dutton is Co-President of the Portulans Institute. Bill was the first professor of Internet studies at the University of Oxford and founding director of the Oxford Internet Institute. He also supports Oxford’s Global Centre for Cyber Security Capacity (GCSCC) as a Fellow. He remains an Emeritus Professor at the University of Southern California and is a Visiting Professor at Leeds University. His most recent book is The Fifth Estate: The Power Shift of the Digital Age (OUP 2023). At Portulans Institute, he leads our research on policies and practices on freedom of information.
