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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 […]
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 […]
Privacy Protection in the Network Society: “Trading Up” or a “Race to the Bottom”?
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008In many of my recent presentations on privacy and information policy, I’ve drawn on differences in the legal and regulatory frameworks applied to the flows of personal information in the United States compared to the European Union. In short, the EU takes a paternalist approach to data protection policy, aiming to preserve a fundamental human […]
(Introducing?) Web Search Studies
Sunday, November 25th, 2007I just completed (late) a chapter contribution for the forthcoming International Handbook of Internet Research. My task was to write a review of search engine research, combined with directions for future work. While the lit review in my dissertation provided a useful starting point, I decided to expand the scope a bit, and came up […]
Scholarship on Privacy and Search Engines
Saturday, June 30th, 2007I recently had the pleasure of attending an excellent workshop on “privacy advocacy” hosted by the Boalt Hall School of Law at Berkeley. The goal was to get privacy advocates in the room with academics who work on privacy in order to encourage “cross-pollination” and - from my perspective - help illuminate the kind of […]
Web Search: Multi-
disciplinary Perspectives