January 24, 2008 – MichaelZimmer.org

The Illusion of “Private” Web Content

Posted by Michael Zimmeron January 24, 2008in Privacy, Social Media2 Comments

Millions of Web 2.0 users share their personal information, photos, bookmarks, and lives online. And, of course, various concerns arise about the fact that so much (what was once considered) private information is being publicly shared with anyone with an…

Audiovisual Search: Regulatory Challenges for Audiovisual Abundance

Posted by Michael Zimmeron January 24, 2008in Events, Search Engines1 Comment

Last fall I had the pleasure of participating in a “Forum on Quaero: A public think tank on the politics of the search engine” hosted by the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands. My talk at that event outlined…

Ethics, Technology and Identity

Posted by Michael Zimmeron January 24, 2008in Events, Social Media

Speaking of my colleague Noëmi Manders-Huits, she is organizing an amazing looking conference on Ethics, Technology and Identity in Delft this June: Information technology plays an increasingly important role in society and in human lives. Identity Management Technologies (e.g. biometrics,…