The politics of search in the aftermath of Trump election : new perspectives on fake news, echo chambers and filter bubble

With William H.Dutton, Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy, Director of the Quello Center at Michigan State University.
Founding Director of the Oxford Internet Institute.

 

There are serious questions over whether biases embedded in the algorithms that drive search engines and social media have major political consequences, such as creating filter bubbles or echo chambers.
Bill Dutton will summarize the results of his team’s 2017 study supported by Google.

 

William H. Dutton is the James H. Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University, where he is Director of the Quello Center.

He was the first Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Oxford where he was founding director of the Oxford Internet Institute.

 

A Fulbright Scholar and Emeritus Professor at the University of Southern California, he also served as Director of the UK’s pioneering ESRC Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT).

His research on Internet Studies increasingly focuses on the Fifth Estate and related issues of cyber policy, regulation, and governance of the Internet.