Today I have the great privilege of presenting the preliminary results of a research project exploring the ethics of Twitter-based research, co-authored with Nick Proferes, at the second annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics, hosted by the Center for Digital…
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Thoughts on Privacy and the Use of Facebook to Recruit Research Subjects
Recently, I was approached by a team of researchers concerned with the research ethics issues related to using Facebook to recruit human subjects. Specifically, the team was planning to use Facebook advertisements in order to target certain users for a…
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Information Society Series Book: The Digital Rights Movement
I’m very pleased to announce that the fourth book in the MIT Press “Information Society Series” I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright Hector Postigo The…
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Virginia IRB Consortium Presentation: “Research, the Cloud, and the IRB”
On Friday October 12, 2012, I will be delivering the keynote address at the Virginia IRB Consortium Conference at the University of Virginia. My talk is "Research, the Cloud, and the IRB" (slides are below). While the presentation shares some…
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Pitt IRB Presentation: “Research Ethics in the 2.0 Era: New Challenges for Researchers and IRBs”
On Friday October 5, 2012, I will have the great pleasure of presenting my work on "Research Ethics in the 2.0 Era: New Challenges for Researchers and IRBs" for the University of Pittsburgh Institutional Review Board Educational Series. I've discussed…
Announcing CIPR Senior Research Fellow: Dr. Rina Ghose
I'm thrilled to announce that the Center for Information Policy Research is welcoming Dr. Rina Ghose as the 2012-2013 Senior Research Fellow. Dr. Ghose is an associate professor in the UW-Milwaukee Department of Geography, with research interests in Critical GIS/GIS…
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International Symposium on Internet Ethics presentation: “Internet Ethics Issues and Action in the United States”
Next week I will be a featured speaker at the first "International Symposium on Internet Ethics" hosted by the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) and Korea Society of Internet Ethics (KSIE). Alongside other international representatives, I will be presenting…
Call for Applicants: CIPR Senior Research Fellow
As the director of the Center for Information Policy Research, I'm pleased to announce this opportunity for UW-Milwaukee faculty: Call for Applicants: CIPR Senior Research Fellow The Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) is seeking a Senior Research Fellow for…
CIPR Student Travel Grant for AoIR 2012 Internet Research Conference
I'm again pleased to announce this funding opportunity for graduate students attending Internet Research 13 in Salford, UK: The UW-Milwaukee Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) is pleased to again offer a CIPR Student Award in Information Policy & Ethics,…
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Special Issue of International Review of Information Ethics on “Ethics of Secrecy”
I'm pleased to announce that the special issue on the topic of “Ethics of Secrecy”, that I co-edited with Daniel Nagel and Matthias Rath, has been published by the International Review of Information Ethics. Here is the table of contents,…
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