Bill Dutton

When Anti-antifa means Pro-Nazi (video) Notes from a Presidential "Roundtable"

Tom Snyder on the historical roots of antifa: snyder.substack.com/p/when-anti-...

Join our team: Researcher, Portulans Democracy Project - Portulans Institute The Portulans Institute invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Portulans Democracy Project (PDP), an initiative focused on identifying and analyzing democratic innovations worl...

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Democratic Innovations: A New Research Project I am happy to report that we have support for a wonderful new research project with the Portulans Institute focused on democratic innovations. It will be anchored by two complementary components. T…

I have a new project on a critical study of democratic innovations. Hope you can follow our work and let me know your thoughts: billdutton.me/2025/07/28/d...

The latest papers published by Information & Culture are now live on the I&C website. The journal has become part of the Project MUSE S2O (Subscribe to Open) initiative, all papers/reviews in Vol 60 are free to all. Hope you can check it out. A direct link: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54803

Europeans are very seriously concerned about the risks of trying to use the far-right for your own political aims. He has a sense of humour but the tank has a clear message.

A perspective on public support in Ukraine for the media and institutions, including their President, V. Zelenskii: "THE WAR ON TRUST IN PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND THE MEDIA OF UKRAINE”. You may view the abstract and download the report at: ssrn.com/abstract=520...

We have a short report entitled: ‘The War on Trust in Public Officials and the Media of Ukraine’, which has just been posted and is freely available online at: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I agree with those observing that Trump’s Liberation Day mainly punishes the poor nations and poor within nations. He is the kind of capitalist who gives capitalism a bad reputation. #resist

Distributed Resistance What can we do?

Distributed Resistance
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I completely agree with @johnthornhill.bsky.social conclusion that “progressives drastically need to up their game.” Thanks @oii.ox.ac.uk for posting.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a difference in education in computer science and the history of computing.

Trump Holds the Cards but Lost His Marbles As an American, I apologise to Ukraine. I am horrified by the US President and VP trying to bully the President of Ukraine. They invited him as their guest in the White House and Oval Office. They …

My views on the Trump attack on the President of Ukraine: billdutton.me/2025/03/01/t...

Wonderful opinion piece in the Guardian today 22 Feb 2025 by Jonathan Freedland, entitled 'Trump is the great showman and the weakest strongman'. I'm not sure about the showman, but agree that Trump is "the weakest strongman the world has ever seen."

Hear from @oii.ox.ac.uk Director Vicki Nash sharing her views about what she believes is "too good to be true" about life online in our final video for #SaferInternetDay. She discusses the unintended consequences of banning social media and why a more nuanced approach is needed.

Doomscrolling: Is Gen Z addicted to short-form internet content We are all guilty of scrolling through social media - so BBC South's Hannah Walsh wanted to find out why.

New commentary! "What we need to understand is exactly which kind of contents are more likely to make it difficult for young people to put their phone down and to control their behaviour." @karenlauram.bsky.social @mentalhealthoii.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk told @bbcnews.bsky.social. bit.ly/3WQmGG3

On top of the fires and floods, American politics seems to be at its worse. Unbelievably bad. The most recent article in Foreign Affairs is: The Path to American Authoritarianism: What Comes After Democratic Breakdown by Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way, February 11, 2025.

Likewise, Nesrine. There are few greater rewards for a retired professor to see former students being successful in their careers. Wonderful hearing about your work and life.

Ukraine Will Win November 21, 2024

Ukraine Will Win
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I am the only person I know whose favourite Xmas movie/story is The Christmas Carol by Dickens

Orwellian Shifts in Propaganda Kremlin Speak in Syria Communication scholars who study propaganda most often try to understand how people are fooled by such information operations. They are so often patently false. But I find it…

Textbook cases of Orwellian propaganda provided by the Kremlin: billdutton.me/2024/12/18/orwellian-shifts-in-propaganda/

My colleagues and I have a preliminary report on our study of how people in Ukraine get access to trusted information: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....