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William H. Dutton is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor of Internet Studies, University of Oxford, and Professorial Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He was previously a Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, which he joined in 1980, where he was elected President of the Faculty. In the UK, Dr. Dutton was a Fulbright Scholar (1986-87), and was national director of the UK's Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT) from 1993 to 1996. He was a co-principal investigator on the URBIS project with Kenneth Kraemer, Jim Danziger, and the late Rob Kling, while a researcher at the Public Policy Research Organization at UC Irvine from 1974-1979. Dr. Dutton holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from SUNY Buffalo.