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…
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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…
Commentary for the “Eagle Eye” DVD
UW-Milwaukee has issued a nice press release regarding my contribution to the DVD bonus material for the action/thriller movie “Eagle Eye,” which features sophisticated surveillance technologies as one of its plot devices. The closing paragraph pretty much sums up where…
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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CEPE 2009: Eighth International Conference of Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry
The call for papers for the 8th International Conference of Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry, to be held June 27-29, 2009 in Corfu, Greece, has been posted: CEPE2009 welcomes high quality paper and panel proposals in all areas of computer/IT ethics. …
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