I am pleased to announce that the Center for Information Policy Research and the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are hosting an important conference on "The Ethics of Information Organization". The full CFP is below: The…
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Announcing IR.10 Internet:Critical (Milwaukee – 2009)
The 10th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from October 7-11, 2009. The conference theme will be "Internet:Critical", providing a space for interdisciplinary researchers to reflect on, describe, interrogate, challenge, and…
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De-brief: AoIR IR9.0 Conference in Copenhagen
Over the past few days I have been attending the 9th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) in Copenhagen. This year's conference is "Internet Research 9.0 - Rethinking Community, Rethinking Place", and it has been expertly organized…
Conference: Privacy in Social Network Sites
Speaking of privacy on social networking sites, the Dutch 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology is holding a 2-day conference later this month on Privacy in Social Network Sites. I know the organizers of this event well, and they are asking…
OneWebDay Debrief
On Monday, September 22, we celebrated OneWebDay in Milwaukee for the first time. It was a great success. The School of Information Studies and the Center for Information Policy Research had an information booth set up in the middle of…
OneWebDay is almost here!
Next Monday, September 22, is OneWebDay, and our banner is up in the UW-Milwaukee Union, and the sidewalks are chalked! More details for the Milwaukee event can be found here and here. If you won't be in Milwaukee, hopefully you…
Archival Ethics with Changing Practices: The Impact of Technology
Reporting again from the SAA conference, I attended an excellent panel this morning on "Archival Ethics with Changing Practices: The Impact of Technology" (program; wiki page), featuring some excellent presentations on the way new information technology is spurring new ethical…
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Values in Design: Defining a Privacy-Aware Model for Web Access to Archives
I'm spending the next few days at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists in San Francisco, and I'm looking forward to learning more about many of the ethical and policy issues confronted by archivists in an…
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OneWebDay – Milwaukee
On Monday, September 22, OneWebDay will be celebrated across the globe, including Milwaukee. OneWebDay (OWD) is like Earth Day for the Internet: it was created so there would be a single day where everyone across the globe could join together…
SPT 2009: Converging Technologies, Changing Societies
The call for papers for the 16th International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, to be held July 8-10, 2009 at the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands, has been posted: SPT 2009 welcomes high quality papers and…
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