Michael Zimmer, PhD, is a digital privacy and data ethics scholar at Marquette University
I’m very pleased to announce that the 8th book in the MIT Press collection “Information Society Series” that I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media by Ryan Milner Internet memes—digital snippets that can make…
Read More Information Society Series Book Announcement: The World Made Meme
I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded an NSF EAGER (EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) grant to pursue a research collaboration with Dr. Jessica Vitak (University of Maryland) and Drs. Jason Pridmore and Daniel Trottier (Erasmus University) on “Mapping…
[et_pb_section admin_label="section"][et_pb_row admin_label="row"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] Today, I'm participating in an ALISE webinar on "Ethics in Library Research Data Services": Data is instrumental to the scientific process. We live in an era of “big data” and…
Read More ALISE Webinar: Ethics in Library Research Data Services
I am extremely happy to announce the publication of “A Decade of Web 2.0: Reflections, Critical Perspectives, and Beyond”, a special issue of First Monday that I was privileged to co-edit with Dr. Anna L. Hoffmann. The issue includes an impressive set of…
Following up on my recent editorial at Wired, “OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils Of Big-Data Science”, I have posted an expanded version of that opinion piece at Ampersand, the blog for Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R), a space committed to promoting dialogue and…
Read More More on OkCupid and the Ethics of Big Data Research
We clearly have entered the era of big data. Armed with petabytes of transaction data, clickstreams and cookie logs, as well as data from social networks, mobile phones, and the “internet of things,” a wide range of economic interests, including…
Read More Wired Editorial: “OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils of Big-Data Science”
I’m once again thrilled to be contributing to an American Library Association (ALA) webinar on "Raising Privacy Awareness in Your Library and in Your Community" in preparation for Choose Privacy Week (May 1-7, 2016). Details and my slides on my contribution on "Sparking Privacy…
I'm excited to join (another) NISO project, in partnership with the Research Data Alliance, focusing on the privacy implications of shared research data. I'll be joining Todd Carpenter (NISO) and Bonnie Tijerina as co-chairs leading this effort. The RDA/NISO Privacy Implications of…
Read More Joining NISO-RDA Working Group on Privacy Implications of Research Data Sets
I’m very pleased to announce that the 7th book in the MIT Press collection “Information Society Series” I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: After Access: Inclusion, Development, and a More Mobile Internet by Jonathan Donner Almost anyone with a $40 mobile phone and…
I am extremely happy to announce this call for chapters for "Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges", which I am co-editing with Dr. Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda at the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and the Institute for…
Read More Call for Chapters: “Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges”
MichaelZimmer.org 
You must be logged in to post a comment.