Join the UW-Milwaukee Center for Information Policy Research and the UWM Libraries for a special screening of the short documentary film "Big Brother, Big Business: The Data-Mining and Surveillance Industries" in celebration of Choose Privacy Week, an annual initiative of…
Author: Michael Zimmer
Concurring Opinions hosting Online Symposium on Configuring the Networked Self
I'm honored and thrilled to be a part of an online symposium featuring Julie Cohen's important new book, Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice, hosted at Concurring Opinions the week of March 5. Thanks…
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iConference 2012: The ethical (re)design of the Google Books project
I'm currently in Toronto, Canada for iConference 2012, presented by the iSchools organization, a worldwide collective of 33 Information Schools. The theme of the conference is "Culture-Design-Society", and I will be presenting a paper titled "The ethical (re)design of the…
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Information Society Series Book: The Reputation Society
I’m very pleased to announce that the third book in the MIT Press “Information Society Series” I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: The Reputation Society: How Online Opinions Are Reshaping the Offline World Edited by Hassan Masum…
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Concerns with Wisconsin’s Planned Database of Recall Petition Signers
(Update at end of post) I’m troubled by Wisconsin’s plan to create a database of all signers of the recall petitions. I know the political parties have access to the petitions in order to challenge signatures, but I’m unsure (and…
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Are Ex-Friend’s Activities Visible in Facebook’s Feed and Ticker?
Recently I noticed what appears to be some kind of bug -- and potentially major privacy concern -- on Facebook's feed and ticker features. Let me explain the scenario: For a moderate amount of time, I had been a "friend"…
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CFP: Internet Research 13.0: Technologies (2012 – Salford, UK)
The 13th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) is being held October 18-21, 2012 in Salford (Greater Manchester) UK. The full call for papers is below: Call for Papers Internet Research 13.0: Technologies The…
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Librarians: Please contribute to a new survey about librarians and privacy
With generous support from the Open Society Foundation, I've been working with the American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom to help assess privacy attitudes and practices of librarians and related information professionals, and we just launched our first survey for librarians.
Call for papers: Ethics of Secrecy
Along with Daniel Nagel and Matthias Rath, I am co-editing a special issue of the International Review of Information Ethics on the topic of "Ethics of Secrecy". The full call for papers is below, and available here. Abstract submission deadline…
Presentations at PRIM&R 2011 “Adancing Ethical Research”
This weekend I have the great privilege of sharing my research and perspectives on Internet research ethics at the 2011 "Advancing Ethical Research" conference held by Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R). On the opening morning of the conference,…
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