I'm very excited to announce the publication of "The Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress: Challenges for Information Practice and Information Policy" in the July 2015 issue of First Monday. This work develops some of my earlier posts (here,…
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CFP for First Monday special issue: “A Decade of Web 2.0: Reflections, Critical Perspectives, and Beyond”
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Choose Privacy Week 2015: Toward a set of Best Practices to Protect Patron Privacy in Library 2.0
In celebration of Choose Privacy Week, the annual initiative of the American Library Association that invites the public into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age, I've written the following guest post for the CPW blog: Toward a set of Best Practices…
How I am Celebrating Choose Privacy Week 2015
Today marks the start of Choose Privacy Week, the annual initiative (always May 1-7) of the American Library Association that invites the public into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. Along with Center for Information Policy Research, I've been a proud…
Joining NISO Project on Patron Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a non-profit standards organization that develops, maintains and publishes technical standards related to publishing, bibliographic and library applications, has been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a Consensus Framework to…
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New Project on Privacy and Cloud Computing in Public Libraries (and some aftermath)
This week, at the Center for Information Policy Research, I launched a new project on Privacy and Cloud Computing in Public Libraries: Public libraries are increasingly turning to cloud computing solutions to satisfy their technological needs in order to best…
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UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies Seeking Assistant Professor in Information Technology
The School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in Information Technology at the rank of Assistant Professor. Ideal candidates will be interested in research and pedagogy in information technology from a variety…
IR15 Presentation: “Privacy and Control in Mark Zuckerberg’s Discourse on Facebook”
This week I'm attending the 15th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers -- IR15: Boundaries and Intersections -- in Daegu, Korea. I had the great privilege to present on a research collaboration with Dr. Anna Lauren Hoffmann, where we…
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The West Bend Challenges: Open Access and Intellectual Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
I'm very excited to announce the publication of a special issue of Library Trends dedicated to the 2009 controversy over select Young Adult books at the West Bend Community Memorial Library. The special issue, titled "The West Bend Challenges: Open Access and Intellectual…
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Special Issue of International Review of Information Ethics on “The Digital Future of Education”
I'm pleased to announce the publication of a special issue (full 1MB pdf) of the International Review of Information Ethics on the topic of “The Digital Future of Education”, co-edited with Johannes Britz. Here's an excerpt from our introduction, and the table of contents: Our contemporary information…
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