William H. Dutton

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William H. Dutton is the Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy in the Department of Media and Information, College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University, where he is Director of the Quello Center, and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Southern California. Previously, Bill was the first Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Oxford, where he was the Founding Director of the OII, and a Fellow of Balliol College. Bill received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his role as Founding Director of the Oxford Internet Institute. He is also the recipient of the International Communication Association’s (ICA) first Fred Williams’ award for contributions to the study of communication and technology, the William F. Ogburn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Communication and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association in 2014, was named an ICA Fellow in 2015, and received an Endowed Faculty Medallion from MSU in 2017.