The Fifth Estate - Dutton, William H. (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, Universi
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In the eighteenth century, the printing press enabled the rise of an independent press--the Fourth Estate--that helped check the power of governments, business, and industry. In similar ways, the internet is enabling the empowerment of a more independent collectivity of networked individuals--the Fifth Estate. Dutton uses estate theory to illuminate the most important power shift of the digital age. He argues that this network power shift is not only enabling greater democratic accountability in politics and governance but is also empowering networked individuals in their everyday life and work.…mehr

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In the eighteenth century, the printing press enabled the rise of an independent press--the Fourth Estate--that helped check the power of governments, business, and industry. In similar ways, the internet is enabling the empowerment of a more independent collectivity of networked individuals--the Fifth Estate. Dutton uses estate theory to illuminate the most important power shift of the digital age. He argues that this network power shift is not only enabling greater democratic accountability in politics and governance but is also empowering networked individuals in their everyday life and work.
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William H. Dutton is Emeritus Professor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. In 2002, Dutton became the founding Director of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and first Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Oxford, during which time he was a Professorial Fellow of Balliol College. He left Oxford in 2014 for a Professorial Chair of Media and Information Policy at Michigan State University, where he was Director of the Quello Center. Dutton returned to Oxford in 2018, where he is affiliated with the University of Oxford as an OII Fellow and Oxford Martin Fellow and supports the Computer Science Department's Global Cybersecurity Capacity Center (GCSCC). He is also a Visiting Professor in the School of Media and Communications at the University of Leeds.