I've received a preview copy of an important forthcoming volume, "Design and Ethics: Reflections on Practice," edited by Emma Felton, Oksana Zelenko, Suzi Vaughan. This book marks an important contribution to the growing "ethical design" or "values in design" community…
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Privacy Week 2012 Film screening: Big Brother, Big Business: The Data-Mining and Surveillance Industries
Join the UW-Milwaukee Center for Information Policy Research and the UWM Libraries for a special screening of the short documentary film "Big Brother, Big Business: The Data-Mining and Surveillance Industries" in celebration of Choose Privacy Week, an annual initiative of…
Concurring Opinions hosting Online Symposium on Configuring the Networked Self
I'm honored and thrilled to be a part of an online symposium featuring Julie Cohen's important new book, Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice, hosted at Concurring Opinions the week of March 5. Thanks…
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iConference 2012: The ethical (re)design of the Google Books project
I'm currently in Toronto, Canada for iConference 2012, presented by the iSchools organization, a worldwide collective of 33 Information Schools. The theme of the conference is "Culture-Design-Society", and I will be presenting a paper titled "The ethical (re)design of the…
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Information Society Series Book: The Reputation Society
I’m very pleased to announce that the third book in the MIT Press “Information Society Series” I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: The Reputation Society: How Online Opinions Are Reshaping the Offline World Edited by Hassan Masum…
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CFP: Internet Research 13.0: Technologies (2012 – Salford, UK)
The 13th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) is being held October 18-21, 2012 in Salford (Greater Manchester) UK. The full call for papers is below: Call for Papers Internet Research 13.0: Technologies The…
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Call for papers: Ethics of Secrecy
Along with Daniel Nagel and Matthias Rath, I am co-editing a special issue of the International Review of Information Ethics on the topic of "Ethics of Secrecy". The full call for papers is below, and available here. Abstract submission deadline…
Presentations at PRIM&R 2011 “Adancing Ethical Research”
This weekend I have the great privilege of sharing my research and perspectives on Internet research ethics at the 2011 "Advancing Ethical Research" conference held by Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R). On the opening morning of the conference,…
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Preview of Association of Internet Researchers IR.12 Conference
I'm looking forward to spending next week in Seattle, WA for the for the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Internet Research 12.0 - Performance and Participation. (Full program is available here) Monday, Elizabeth Buchanan and I are convening a doctoral…
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Information Society Series Book: Opening Standards – The Global Politics of Interoperability
I'm very pleased to announce that the second book in the MIT Press "Information Society Series" I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: Opening Standards: The Global Politics of Interoperability Edited by Laura DeNardisSeptember 2011 Openness is not…
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