The New Internet World

The New Internet World:
Global Perspectives on
Freedom of Expression, Privacy, Trust and Security
William H. Dutton
Oxford Internet Institute (OII)
University of Oxford
www.ox.ac.uk
Presentation for the Internet and Society Conference, School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University, Beijing, 20 May 2011.

The Old Internet World
North America and Western Europe
Academic Innovation in Networking
Marginal to Everyday Life and Work
Utopian and Dystopian Visions
Direct Democracy
Surveillance Society
Politically Irrelevant to Real Politics

The New World
Significance to Everyday Life and Work (Oxford Internet Surveys and WIP)
Global Diffusion
Role in Reconfiguring Access
Illustrations of its Political Significance
The Rise of a Fifth Estate

Percentage of Internet Users Across Regions of the World

Role in Reconfiguring Access

Networked Institutions v Networked Individuals of the Fifth Estate

The Fourth and Fifth Estates
Press since the 18th Century - the ‘Fourth Estate’
Internet in the 21st - enabling a Fifth Estate
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Enabling people to network with other individuals and with information, services and technical resources in ways that support social accountability in business and industry, government, politics, and the media.

Networked Institutions v Networked Individuals of the Fifth Estate
Networked Institutions: greater ubiquity, universal access
Networked Individuals of the Fifth Estate: require only a critical mass of users

The Fifth Estate: A Sensitizing Concept

Responses to the New World
National Efforts to Control and Regulate
Internet Governance Forum
Technologies of Disconnection: Filtering
Rise of National Values and Attitudes?

Meta-Analysis of Internet Filtering:
Countries with high ratings (heaviest filtering) include: China, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
Countries with medium levels of filtering include: Australia, Bahrain, Egypt, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Russia, Turkey.
Countries filtering, but at comparatively low levels: Azerbaijan, Brazil, Estonia, Italy, Morocco, Singapore, United Kingdom.
Source: W. H. Dutton, A. Dopatka, M. Hills, G. Law, and V. Nash (2011), Freedom of Connection – Freedom of Expression: The Changing Legal and Regulatory Ecology Shaping the Internet. Paris: UNESCO.

Raising New Research Questions:
How are government policies and practices experienced by the public?
Are public attitudes and values reflecting national political-administrative and cultural traditions?
Are national cultures and political-administrative traditions reshaping the core values underpinning the Internet and Web?

The Global Internet Values Project*
Collaboration of OII, INSEAD, and comScore for the World Economic Forum (WEF)
Online Global Survey
Completed by 5,400 Adult Internet Users
Conducted from Oct-Nov 2010
13 countries: Australia/New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, India, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, the United States, and the United Kingdom
*Dutta, S., Dutton, W. H. and Law, G. (2011), The New Internet World: A Global Perspective on Freedom of Expression, Privacy, Trust and Security Online. New York: The World Economic Forum, April. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1810005

Four General Themes and Findings
New online nations are becoming the dominant nations in the Internet world;
Users are developing a global Internet culture: sharing similar concerns, values and attitudes toward expression, privacy, trust, and security;
Newly adopting countries are as liberal, if not more so, in their attitudes, such as support for freedom of expression;
Users in the newly adopting nations are more innovative in their patterns of use, e.g., social networking.

Regions as Percentage of the Worldwide Population of Users

Shared Global Concerns over Trust and Authenticity

Pattern of Findings Supporting Conception of a ‘New Internet World’: Many Limitations

The New Internet World:
Global Perspectives on
Freedom of Expression, Privacy, Trust and Security
William H. Dutton
Oxford Internet Institute (OII)
University of Oxford
www.ox.ac.uk
Presentation for the Internet and Society Conference, School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University, Beijing, 20 May 2011.

The New Internet World

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