Presentation for a Conference entitled ‘McLuhan and Global Communication’, The Global Communication Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 13 June 2011.

1. McLuhan’s New Internet World: The Emergence of a Global Culture William H. Dutton Oxford Internet Institute (OII) University of Oxford www.ox.ac.uk Presentation fora Conference entitled ‘McLuhan and Global Communication’, The Global Communication Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 13 June 2011.

3. Academic Innovation in Networking

4. Marginal to Everyday Life and Work

5. Utopian and Dystopian Visions

6. Direct Democracy

7. Surveillance Society

9. Global Diffusion

10. Role in Reconfiguring Access

11. Illustrations of its Political Significance

13. Role in Reconfiguring Access: Medium is the Internet’s Message

15. Networked Institutions v Networked Individuals of the Fifth Estate

17. Internet in the 21st - enabling a Fifth Estate−− 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.

20. Internet Governance Forum

21. Technologies of Disconnection: Filtering

23. Countries with medium levels of filtering include: Australia, Bahrain, Egypt, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Russia, Turkey.

24. 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.

26. Are public attitudes and values reflecting national political-administrative and cultural traditions?

28. Online Global Survey

29. Completed by 5,400 Adult Internet Users

30. Conducted from Oct-Nov 2010

31. 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

32. 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.

33. Regions as Percentage of the Worldwide Population of Users

34. Shared Global Concerns over Trust and Authenticity

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

42. McLuhan’s New Internet World: The Emergence of a Global Culture William H. Dutton Oxford Internet Institute (OII) University of Oxford www.ox.ac.uk Presentation fora Conference entitled ‘McLuhan and Global Communication’, The Global Communication Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 13 June 2011.