Only a few days before the State of Missouri passed a law restricting private contact between students and teachers on social media, I was contact by UW-Milwaukee's Department of Curriculum & Instruction to help social media guidelines for the student…
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Announcing CIPR Student Travel Grant for AoIR 2011 Internet Research Conference
I am pleased to announce the following student travel grant opportunity for IR 12 in Seattle. The Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) is pleased to again offer a CIPR Student Award in Information Policy & Ethics, to sponsor one…
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Nadine Kozak joins UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies as 2011-2012 Postdoctoral Fellow in Information Policy
As CIPR Co-Director, I'm very pleased to make this announcement: The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies (SOIS) and the Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) is proud to welcome Dr. Nadine Kozak as the 2011-12 Postdoctoral Fellow in…
My Research in The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Harvard’s Privacy Meltdown”; some annotations
The Chronicle of Higher Education has published an article featuring my critique of the privacy protections and research methods related to the “Taste, Ties, and Time” (T3) Facebook research study conducted by a set of Harvard sociologists. Written by Marc…
Extending Search for Information Policy/Ethics Faculty Position at UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies
The School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is extending its search for a new faculty member (open rank) with a specialty in information policy & ethics. Applicants should have a strong background in information policy, including, but not limited to, ethical, cultural, technological or political issues as they relate to the information professions, systems, and infrastructures that make up our global information society.
Promoting Ethical Literacy in Youth
I am currently in New Orleans for the American Library Association Annual Conference and Exhibition, where I will be speaking on the program “Promoting Ethical Literacy in Youth: How Librarians Can Partner with Parents and Teachers”, hosted by the ALA’s…
Call for Participation: Doctoral Colloquium at the Association of Internet Researchers 2011 Annual Conference
The 12th annual conference for the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Internet Research 12.0 - Performance and Participation, will be held October 10-13, 2011 in Seattle, Washington. I'm pleased to be organizing this year's doctoral colloquium pre-conference with Elizabeth Buchanan.…
Libraries as Freedom of Information Gazebos
I recently attended the 9th annual Information Ethics Roundtable hosted by the University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science. This year's theme was "Human Rights as Information Rights,"and featured a great collection of papers. I presented a…
2011 Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE) Program Posted, Registration Open
The program for the 2011 Computer Ethics/Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE) conference has been posted, and features an impressive collection of international scholars and students in computer & information ethics, presenting papers on topics in the following themes: Intercultural & Interdisciplinary Computer…
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Information Ethics & WikiLeaks (April 14)
If you are in the Milwaukee area and interested in the intersections of information ethics and WikiLeaks, please join me for a discussion on April 14 with the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Chapter of the Special…
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