The Department of Culture & Communication at New York University, where I'm earning my PhD, has re-vamped its website. In it, you can find program descriptions, faculty and PhD student bios, course listings [.doc], faculty searches, and the like. I'd…
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I will be attending the "Countours of Privacy: Social, Psychological and Normative Perspectives" conference in Ottawa this weekend, sponsored by Members of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada research group, "On the Identity Trail: Understanding the Importance…
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NYU's Department of Culture & Communication (my department) is holding its annual Graduate Student Conference on November 11, 2005, where I will be on a panel on Google: Don't Be Evil: Political, Culture and Ethical Aspects of Google Google has…
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The Yale Information Society Project is hosting a symposium on "Regulating Search: A Symposium on Search Engines, Law, and Public Policy": Search is big business, and search functionality increasingly shapes the information society. Yet how the law treats search is…
I am presenting this paper today at the 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR). The panel is titled "Search Engines - Their Politics; Their Logics":The Value Implications of the “Google Paradigm” for Organizing, Distributing…
Alejandro Diaz, a grad student at Stanford University in Communications (with a BA in Computer Science), has written an excellent (and nearly 200-page) honors thesis entitled "Through the Google Goggles: The Sociopolitics of Search Engine Design" [pdf]. Here is the…
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I've returned from the CEPE and SPT conferences in The Netherlands motivated to increase my advocacy for the "values in design" perspective for understanding the social, political and ethical implications of technology. At CEPE, the theme was "Ethics of New…
I am on my way to The Netherlands to particpate in two exciting conferences. I will be presenting my paper "Surveillance, Privacy and the Ethics of Vehicle Safety Communication Technologies" [PDF] at the International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry.…
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I will presenting my paper "Media Ecology & Values in Design: A Combined Approach to Understanding the Biases of Media Technology" at the 6th Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association at Fordham University today. The abstract:In recent years, a…
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