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I’m thrilled to announce that the School of Information Studies and the Center for Information Policy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will be hosting the 2011 Computer Ethics/Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE) conference, May 31 to June 3, 2011. The bi-annual conference is presented by the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT), and this will my 4th time participating in CEPE (2005, 2007, 2009).
For 2011, the conference theme is “Crossing Boundaries: Ethics in Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Relations”. The full call for papers is below.
Call for …

I’ve returned from the 8th International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry in Corfu, Greece, where I presented an early draft of a paper based on my critique of the “Taste, Ties, and Time” Facebook data release. The paper was well-received, but I have work ahead of me to improve the manuscript prior to publication.
Overall, the conference was a success. Corfu was delightful, and the presentations sparked good conversations. Following are some highlights and reactions:

Next week I will be attending the 8th International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry in Corfu, Greece, where I will be presenting an early draft of a paper based on my critique of the “Taste, Ties, and Time” Facebook data release.
Recall that last fall, a group of researchers affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University released a dataset of Facebook profile information from an entire cohort (the class of 2009) of college students from “an anonymous, northeastern American university.” While the researchers took good …

The call for papers for the 8th International Conference of Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry, to be held June 27-29, 2009 in Corfu, Greece, has been posted:

CEPE2009 welcomes high quality paper and panel proposals in all areas of computer/IT ethics.  This includes, but is not limited to, ethical issues relating to:

Online communities, the virtual and the “real”

Privacy, data protection, RFID, surveillance, CCTV,  spam, phishing, and spyware

Global computing and intercultural information ethics

Information access, search engines, and the digital divide

Democracy and the internet; computing technology and natural disasters

Virtuality, simulation and reproduction

Computing, identity and …

Noëmi Manders-Huits (Delft University of Technology) and I have been accepted to present our paper “Values and pragmatic action: The challenges of engagement with technical design communities” at CEPE 2007: Seventh International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry, hosted by the Values Institute at the University of San Diego.
The abstract of our paper can be downloaded here (PDF).
My posts about CEPE 2005 can be read here and here.

I’ve been accepted to present at CEPE 2005: Sixth International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry hosted by the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. The conference theme is “Ethics of New Information Technology”:
Information technology is currently moving well beyond the familiar mainframe, PC and laptop computer paradigms. We are witnessing the mobile revolution, the ubiquitous computing revolution, as well as revolutionary new uses of IT in biomedicine, education, the fight against crime and terrorism, entertainment and other areas. We are anticipating a nanotechnology revolution, as well as a convergence …