Archive for the 'Academic' Category
Reminder: Computers, Freedom, & Privacy: Technology Policy ‘08
Monday, April 28th, 2008The program for next month’s Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference on “Technology Policy ‘08“ has been posted and features an excellent array of tutorials, plenaries and panels:
Plenary Sessions
Presidential Technology Policy: Priorities for the Next Executive
The 21st Century Panopticon?
The National Security State and the Next Adminstration
Tutorials
A Short History of Privacy
Constitutional […]
Joining UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008I am thrilled to announce that I have accepted an offer to join the faculty of the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
As of August 18, 2008, I will be an Assistant Professor at SOIS, with teaching responsibilities focusing on its undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Information Resources, and my research will […]
CFP: Privacy Literacy — How Consumers Understand and Protect Their Privacy
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008Consumer attention to privacy is seemingly on the rise. We witnessed renewed concern about the tracking of user behavior online, medical privacy as Web-based storage solutions are being proposed, the tracking and selling of television viewing patterns, the merging of vast databases of user activity owned by Google and Doubleclick, and much, much more.
The open […]
Special issue of First Monday: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0
Monday, March 3rd, 2008I am pleased to announce the (open) publication of a special issue of First Monday on “Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0.”
This special issue was born from a panel I organized at AoIR, and features amazing contributions from Trebor Scholz, Matthew Allen, Kylie Jarrett, Søren Mørk Petersen, myself, Anders Albrechtslund, and David Silver.
My thanks to […]
Computers, Freedom, & Privacy: Technology Policy ‘08
Thursday, February 28th, 2008The call for papers for the 2008 Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference has been released. This year’s theme is “Technology Policy ‘08“. Details below:
COMPUTERS, FREEDOM, AND PRIVACY: TECHNOLOGY POLICY ‘08
http://cfp2008.org/
18th Annual CFP conference
May 20-23, 2008
Omni Hotel
New Haven, CT
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
This election year will be the first to address US technology policy in the information age […]
Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Monday, February 25th, 2008I’m pleased to announce that Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives has, after 2 years in the making, been published in the Information Science and Knowledge Management series by Springer.
Co-edited with Amanda Spink, Web Search is a collection of chapters approaching Web search engines from philosophical, cultural, critical, legal, economic, historical, political, and information scientific perspectives.
The official […]




Web Search: Multi-
disciplinary Perspectives