Michael Zimmer.org

2010

• “The Laws of Social Networking, or, How Facebook Feigns Privacy.” Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, October.
• Invited Participant, Workshops on “Facilitating Better and Faster IRB Approvals for DML Research”, Project of MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning initiative, Irvine, CA (May) and Stanford, CA (August)
• “Research Ethics in the 2.0 Era: Conceptual Gaps for Ethicists, Researchers, IRBs.” Presentation before the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP), Office for Human Research Protections, Washington, DC, July. (notes)
• Featured Participant, Webinar on “What do Newer Generation Faculty Want from IT Services?”, EDUCAUSE Live, July
• Respondent, Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Center on Law and Information Policy, George Washington University, Washington, DC, June
• “Library 2.0 and Patron Privacy: Avoiding a Faustian Bargain.” Privacy Day, UWM Libraries, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, May. (notes)
• “The Google Books Settlement: Preserving Intellectual Freedom in the Face of Googlization.” Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April. (notes)
• “Subject Privacy and the Release of the Tastes, Ties, and Time Dataset.” Workshop: Revisiting Research Ethics in the Facebook Era: Challenges in Emerging CSCW Research, Computer Supported Cooperative Work Conference, Savannah, GA, February.
• Respondent, Faculty Workshop on “The Surprising Failure of Data Anonymization”, Center on Law and Information Policy, Fordham Law School, New York, NY, January

2009

• “‘But the Data is Already Public’: On the Ethics of Research in Facebook.” Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October.*
• “Thoughts on Privacy and the Google Book Settlement: What’s At Stake, Why We Need to Advocate, and What We Can Do.” The Google Books Settlement and the Future of Information Access, UC-Berkeley School of Information, August. (notes)
• “‘But the Data is Already Public’: On the Ethics of Research in Facebook.” International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry, Corfu, Greece, June.*
• “Library 2.0, Access to Knowledge & Patron Privacy: Avoiding a Faustian Bargain.” Library 2.0 Symposium, Information Society Project, Yale Law School, April. (notes)

2008

• “Contextual Integrity as a Normative Guide for Privacy.” Society of American Archivists Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, August. (notes)
• “Renvois of the Past, Present and Future: Hyperlinks, Discourse Networks, and the Structuring of Knowledge from the Encyclopédie to Web 2.0.” Pre-conference on the Long History of New Media, International Communication Association Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, May.*
• “Privacy and Audiovisual Search.” Expert Workshop on “Audiovisual Search: Regulatory Challenges for Audiovisual Abundance,” Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April. (notes)

2007

• “The Externalities of Search 2.0: The Flow of Personal Information in the Drive for the Perfect Search Engine.” American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, October.*
• “Surveillance 2.0: Peer-to-Peer Surveillance, Amateur Data Mining, and the (Unintended?) Consequences of Web 2.0.” Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, October.*
• “Search 2.0: Web 2.0, Personal Information Flows, and the Drive for the Perfect Search Engine.” Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Vancouver, Canada, October.*
• “Privacy and Quaero’s Quest for the Perfect Search Engine: Threats and Opportunities.” Forum on Quaero: A Public Think Tank on the Politics of the Search Engine, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands, September. (notes)
• Invited Lecture, “Privacy, Contextual Integrity, and the Quest for the Perfect Search Engine.” Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September

• “Values & Pragmatic Action: The Challenges of Engagement with Technical Design Communities.” International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry, San Diego, CA, July.*
• Selected Participant, Summer Doctoral Programme, Oxford Internet Institute, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
• Selected Participant, Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar, The Surveillance Project, Queens University, Kingston, Canada

2006

• Invited Lecture, “Driving for the Perfect Search: Values, Technical Design, and the Flow of Personal Information in Spheres of Mobility.” Information Society Project Speaker Series, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, December.
• “The Panoptic Gaze of Web Search Engines.” National Communication Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, November.*

• “Values & Pragmatic Action: The Challenges of Engagement with Technical Design Communities.” Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada, November.*
• Invited Lecture, “Values & Pragmatic Action: The Challenges of Engagement with Technical Design Communities” (with Noëmi Manders-Huits), Philosophy Department Colloquium, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, October.
• Invited Lecture, “Values & Pragmatic Action: The Challenges of Engagement with Technical Design Communities.” Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, October.
• Invited Lecture, “The Panoptic Gaze of Web 2.0: How Web 2.0 Platforms act as Infrastructures of Dataveillance.” Seminar on Social Software and Web 2.0: Critical Perspectives and Challenges for Research and Business, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, October.

2005

• “Privacy on the Roads: How the Design of New Vehicle Safety Communication Technologies Impact Drivers’ Privacy in Public.” Contours of Privacy: Social, Psychological and Normative Perspectives, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, November. (notes)
• “The Value Implications of the ‘Google Paradigm’ for Organizing, Distributing and Accessing Information.” Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Chicago, IL, October.*
• “Privacy and the Design of Vehicle Safety Communication Technologies.” Society for Philosophy and Technology Conference, Delft, The Netherlands, July.*
• “Surveillance, Privacy and the Ethics of Vehicle Safety Communication Technologies.” International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry, Enschede, The Netherlands, July.*
• “Media Ecology and Value Sensitive Design: A Combined Approach to Understanding the Biases of Media Technology.” Media Ecology Association Conference, New York, NY, June.*
• “Privacy and the Design of Vehicle Safety Communication Technologies.” Science and Technology in Context: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Washington, DC, April. (notes)

2004

• “The Tensions of Securing Cyberspace.” National Communication Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, November.*
• “The Ideology of Control in Interface Technologies.” MIT-RPI-Cornell STS Graduate Student Conference, Troy, NY, February. (notes)

* indicates refereed formal paper for academic audience