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Michael Zimmer, PhD, is a digital privacy and data ethics scholar at Marquette University

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Information Society Series book announcement: After Access: Inclusion, Development, and a More Mobile Internet

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I’m very pleased to announce that the 7th book in the MIT Press collection “Information Society Series” I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: After Access: Inclusion, Development, and a More Mobile Internet by Jonathan Donner Almost anyone with a $40 mobile phone and…

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Call for Chapters: “Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges”

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I am extremely happy to announce this call for chapters for "Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges", which I am co-editing with Dr. Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda at the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and the Institute for…

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The Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress: Challenges for Information Practice and Information Policy

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I'm very excited to announce the publication of "The Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress: Challenges for Information Practice and Information Policy" in the July 2015 issue of First Monday. This work develops some of my earlier posts (here,…

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CFP for First Monday special issue: “A Decade of Web 2.0: Reflections, Critical Perspectives, and Beyond”

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How I am Celebrating Choose Privacy Week 2015

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Today marks the start of Choose Privacy Week, the annual initiative (always May 1-7) of the American Library Association that invites the public into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. Along with Center for Information Policy Research,  I've been a proud…

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UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies Seeking Assistant Professor in Information Technology

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The School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in Information Technology at the rank of Assistant Professor. Ideal candidates will be interested in research and pedagogy in information technology from a variety…

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IR15 Presentation: “Privacy and Control in Mark Zuckerberg’s Discourse on Facebook”

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This week I'm attending the 15th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers -- IR15: Boundaries and Intersections -- in Daegu, Korea. I had the great privilege to present on a research collaboration with Dr. Anna Lauren Hoffmann, where we…

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The West Bend Challenges: Open Access and Intellectual Freedom in the Twenty-First Century

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I'm very excited to announce the publication of a special issue of Library Trends dedicated to the 2009 controversy over select Young Adult books at the West Bend Community Memorial Library. The special issue, titled "The West Bend Challenges: Open Access and Intellectual…

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Special Issue of International Review of Information Ethics on “The Digital Future of Education”

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I'm pleased to announce the publication of a special issue (full 1MB pdf) of the International Review of Information Ethics on the topic of “The Digital Future of Education”, co-edited with Johannes Britz. Here's an excerpt from our introduction, and the table of contents: Our contemporary information…

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A Topology of Twitter Research: Disciplines, Methods, and Ethics

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I'm pleased to announce the publication of "A Topology of Twitter Research: Disciplines, Methods, and Ethics" in the Aslib Journal of Information Management, a project I co-authored with Nick Proferes. It appears in a special issue dedicated to "Twitter data analytics",…

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