Michael Zimmer, PhD, is a digital privacy and data ethics scholar at Marquette University
I'm excited to announce that starting in August 2019, I will be joining the faculty of the new Department of Computer Science at Marquette University. After over 10 years at UW-Milwaukee, I'm really looking forward to this new direction in…
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I'm excited to share the newest book published in the “Information Society Series” at MIT Press that I co-edit with Laura DeNardis. Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P by Robert Gehl Summary An exploration of the Dark Web—websites accessible…
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Over at the Center for Information Policy Research, we've posted the final report for the IMLS-funded project “Library Values & Privacy in our National Digital Strategies: Field guides, Convenings, and Conversations” which I've been working on over the past year with Bonnie Tijerina at Data & Society. From…
I'm happy to share the (open) publication of a new article "Addressing Conceptual Gaps in Big Data Research Ethics: An Application of Contextual Integrity" in Social Media + Society. In this article, I revisit the OkCupid data collection and release controversy,…
Two new books have just been published in the “Information Society Series” at MIT Press that I co-edit with Laura DeNardis. Congrats to Tijana Milosevic and James Meese on these great contributions! Protecting Children Online? Cyberbullying Policies of Social Media Companies By Tijana Milosevic…
I am hiring a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to work on the PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research project! This is a 12-month position, with possible renewal for a 2nd year. Details below. Please join us! Position: Postdoctoral Research Assistant Project: PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics…
Along with my co-organizers, Charles Ess and Anja Bechmann, I'm excited to announce the Web Science 2018 Ethics Workshop: “Confronting Ethical Challenges in Web Science Research“, scheduled for Sunday 27 May 2018 at VU Amsterdam. This half-day workshop, organized by…
[Note: this PhD position is no longer available. See recent posting for a Postdoctoral Research Associate here] Are you a graduate student interested in big data, data ethics, internet research, or internet research ethics? Are you looking for a funded…
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I am extremely happy to announce the publication of "Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Challenges, Cases, and Contexts", which I was lucky to co-edit with Dr. Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda at the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and the Institute…
I'm thrilled to announce that the "Privacy" special issue of the American Library Association’s Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy (JIFP) has now been published. The issue can be accessed here, and subscription information is here. Here is my introduction to the…
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