On the heels of Open Access Day at UW-Milwaukee, held as part of the first international Open Access Week, it was announced that the UWM Libraries has successfully negotiated a contract with the Elsevier publishing company that will provide increased…
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Want to be a PhD student at UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies?
The School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is now accepting applications for 2010 enrollment for its PhD program in Information Studies. Details below, and feel free to contact me with any questions or advice. The School of…
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Society of the Query conference: Stop Searching, Start Questioning!
Speaking of conferences in November that I am unable to attend, Geert Lovink and Shirley Niemans at the Institute of Network Cultures have organized the Society of the Query conference, November 13-14 in Amsterdam. With the tagline "Stop Searching, Start…
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The Internet as Playground and Factory: A Conference on Digital Labor
When I edited a special volume of First Monday on "Critical Perspectives of Web 2.0" I was lucky to have included a contribution by Trebor Scholz, which made an already good collection of papers even better. Scholz's article, "Market Ideology…
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Open Access Day at UW-Milwaukee
Next week, October 19 – 23, 2009, will mark the first international Open Access Week, celebrating the international movement working to "throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge." Encouraging the unrestricted sharing of scholarly and scientific research, the…
IR.10 Internet: Critical (or, why the blog has been slow lately)
For the last 353 days, I've been part of a team planning Internet Research 10.0 – Internet: Critical, the 10th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). My life is about to get back to normal, as an…
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An Objection to the Google Book Settlement by Academic Authors
Dr. Pamela Samuelson has been one of the most vocal, and most intelligent, critics of the proposed Google Book Search settlement agreement. She has written, for example, on how the settlement threatens orphan works and represents a "major restructuring of…
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Fall 2009 Semester Begins
This week marks the start of the Fall 2009 semester for students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. I will again be teaching two classes within the undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Information Resources program in the School of Information Studies:…
Thoughts on Privacy and the Google Book Settlement
I shared my thoughts on privacy and the Google Book Settlement at the “Google Books Settlement and the Future of Information Access” conference organized by the UC-Berkeley School of Information. My remarks focused on my desire to trust Google when they say they're "thinking hard" about these issues and promise to "protect readers' privacy rights", while noting their track record is reason enough to cause us some pause, which is why we're pushing so hard as advocates on these vital concerns.
OneWebDay 2009 – Milwaukee
Building on last year's success, I'm pleased to announce Milwaukee's 2009 OneWebDay events: On Monday, September 21 (7:00pm, UWM Union Theater), UW-Milwaukee's Center for Information Policy Research and School of Information Studies is hosting a free screening of the Girl…
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