Articles in the Helen Nissenbaum Category
Academic, Helen Nissenbaum »
Helen Nissenbaum at New York University has an open postdoc position for those interested in working on various NSF-funded projects involving privacy, security and the social dimensions of networking.
I cannot say enough about the ways I benefited from working with Dr. Nissenbaum throughout my doctoral career, and I encourage all recently-minted PhDs (of any discipline) to apply.
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
Areas of focus: Multidisciplinary study of privacy, security, social dimensions of digital networks, values in computing and information system design
The NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication is pleased to announce a Research …
Contextual Integrity, Helen Nissenbaum, Privacy »
The Economist has written a short piece on the theory of privacy as “contextual integrity” developed by my dissertation adviser, Helen Nissenbaum. The article focuses on efforts by John Mitchell, Adam Barth and Anupam Datta, all computer scientists at Stanford University, to turn the philosophical components of contextual integrity into formal expressions that can be incorporated into computer programs:
Contextual integrity, which was developed by Helen Nissenbaum of New York University, relies on four classes of variable. These are the context of a flow of information, the capacities in …
Conferences, Helen Nissenbaum, Surveillance »
I just came across an amazing-looking multi-disciplinary symposium on privacy and surveillance at Berekely: Unblinking: New Perspectives on Visual Privacy in the 21st Century.
The program is quite impressive, including Ian Kerr (who gave the keynote last week at our IINW symposium), Julie Cohen, and Helen Nissenbaum (my dissertation advisor).
I’d love to attend, but it is the same weekend as the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Vancouver, where I will be presenting the paper on the “Values and pragmatic action: The challenges of engagement with …
