Comments on: Event: Emerging Privacy and Ethical Challenges for Libraries in the 2.0 Era http://michaelzimmer.org/2010/03/12/emerging-privacy-and-ethical-challenges-for-libraries-in-the-2-0-era/ information ethics : privacy : new media : values in design : 2.0 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:58:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kristin http://michaelzimmer.org/2010/03/12/emerging-privacy-and-ethical-challenges-for-libraries-in-the-2-0-era/comment-page-1/#comment-160649 Kristin Mon, 03 May 2010 16:32:32 +0000 http://michaelzimmer.org/?p=1908#comment-160649 Hi Kim I'm quite interested in your work, non western conceptions of ownership and cultural privacy etc. regard to digital cultural projects, so I'll be sure to refer to your blog post (and other related work) in my part of the talk. My part focuses on privacy and digitization. If you have any other suggestions for "must includes" let me know. Cheers! Kristin Hi Kim
I’m quite interested in your work, non western conceptions of ownership and cultural privacy etc. regard to digital cultural projects, so I’ll be sure to refer to your blog post (and other related work) in my part of the talk. My part focuses on privacy and digitization. If you have any other suggestions for “must includes” let me know.

Cheers!
Kristin

]]> By: Michael Zimmer http://michaelzimmer.org/2010/03/12/emerging-privacy-and-ethical-challenges-for-libraries-in-the-2-0-era/comment-page-1/#comment-160540 Michael Zimmer Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:09:11 +0000 http://michaelzimmer.org/?p=1908#comment-160540 Hi Kim, When I read your mention of "cross-culturally", I (incorrectly) presumed you meant different global cultures. Reading your later comment and blog post, you'll be happy to know I'm in complete agreement about the fact that there isn't a singular conception of privacy within the U.S., whether among scholars or users. (Although U.S. law/regulation tends to have a singular -- and flawed -- conception of privacy). I hope that if you read through my blog, you'd discover that I'm one of the loudest adherents to the <a href="http://michaelzimmer.org/category/privacy/contextual-integrity/" rel="nofollow">contextual nature of privacy</a>: it means different things to different people in different contexts. I look forward to following your blog... -michael. Hi Kim,

When I read your mention of “cross-culturally”, I (incorrectly) presumed you meant different global cultures.

Reading your later comment and blog post, you’ll be happy to know I’m in complete agreement about the fact that there isn’t a singular conception of privacy within the U.S., whether among scholars or users. (Although U.S. law/regulation tends to have a singular — and flawed — conception of privacy).

I hope that if you read through my blog, you’d discover that I’m one of the loudest adherents to the contextual nature of privacy: it means different things to different people in different contexts.

I look forward to following your blog…

-michael.

]]> By: Kim Christen http://michaelzimmer.org/2010/03/12/emerging-privacy-and-ethical-challenges-for-libraries-in-the-2-0-era/comment-page-1/#comment-160539 Kim Christen Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:47:37 +0000 http://michaelzimmer.org/?p=1908#comment-160539 Michael, Thanks, although I think this is exactly a US and legal issue. While I applaud the panel's efforts, the fact is, the "US legal and conceptual environment" does, in fact, contain these issues, but marginalizes them. I actually was writing a blog post about this anyway when I came across this so I've responded more fully there (http://www.kimberlychristen.com/?p=885) Michael,
Thanks, although I think this is exactly a US and legal issue. While I applaud the panel’s efforts, the fact is, the “US legal and conceptual environment” does, in fact, contain these issues, but marginalizes them.

I actually was writing a blog post about this anyway when I came across this so I’ve responded more fully there (http://www.kimberlychristen.com/?p=885)

]]> By: Michael Zimmer http://michaelzimmer.org/2010/03/12/emerging-privacy-and-ethical-challenges-for-libraries-in-the-2-0-era/comment-page-1/#comment-160538 Michael Zimmer Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:51:38 +0000 http://michaelzimmer.org/?p=1908#comment-160538 Thanks for pointing this out, Kim. Clearly, different cultures have different conceptions of values & rights, including privacy. Unfortunately, that discussion is beyond the scope of this panel, and we'll be focusing (largely) on the U.S. legal and conceptual environment. But I'm working on similar projects focusing on the intercultural challenges of information ethics, especially in the African context. I'll post more on that soon, but there's some helpful information at the <a href="http://icie.zkm.de/" rel="nofollow">International Center for Information Ethics</a>, as well as the <a href="http://www.africainfoethics.org/" rel="nofollow">African Information Ethics portal</a>. Thanks for pointing this out, Kim. Clearly, different cultures have different conceptions of values & rights, including privacy. Unfortunately, that discussion is beyond the scope of this panel, and we’ll be focusing (largely) on the U.S. legal and conceptual environment.

But I’m working on similar projects focusing on the intercultural challenges of information ethics, especially in the African context. I’ll post more on that soon, but there’s some helpful information at the International Center for Information Ethics, as well as the African Information Ethics portal.

]]> By: Kim Christen http://michaelzimmer.org/2010/03/12/emerging-privacy-and-ethical-challenges-for-libraries-in-the-2-0-era/comment-page-1/#comment-160537 Kim Christen Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:41:58 +0000 http://michaelzimmer.org/?p=1908#comment-160537 Given the ALA's recent public document "Librarianship and Traditional Cultural Expressions: Nurturing Understanding and Respect" (http://wo.ala.org/tce/) will the panel also be discussing the differences between conceptions of privacy cross-culturally? the legacies of Enlightenment notions of privacy on collecting institutions current policies? the effects of the emphasis on privacy (tacitly assumed to mean individual privacy) for group or communal concerns? Given the ALA’s recent public document “Librarianship and Traditional Cultural Expressions: Nurturing Understanding and Respect” (http://wo.ala.org/tce/) will the panel also be discussing the differences between conceptions of privacy cross-culturally? the legacies of Enlightenment notions of privacy on collecting institutions current policies? the effects of the emphasis on privacy (tacitly assumed to mean individual privacy) for group or communal concerns?

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