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

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Information Society Series Book: Opening Standards – The Global Politics of Interoperability

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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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My Research in The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Harvard’s Privacy Meltdown”; some annotations

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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…

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New book: Contours of Privacy

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I few years ago I presented a paper at the “Countours of Privacy: Social, Psychological and Normative Perspectives” conference in Ottawa, sponsored by Members of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada research group and their “On the Identity Trail: Understanding the Importance and Impact of Anonymity and Authentication in a Networked Society” research project. I'm thrilled to announce that, after a peer review process and the hard work of David Matheson, a collection of papers from this conference has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in an edited volume, "Contours of Privacy".

Information Society Series: An Interdisciplinary Book Series on Technology, Law, and Society

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I'm delighted to announce the launch of a new book series I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis, Ph.D, the Executive Director of the Yale Information Society Project: Information Society Series: An Interdisciplinary Series on Technology, Law, and Society Series Editors,…

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Values and Pragmatic Action: The Challenges of Introducing Ethical Intelligence in Technical Design Communities

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I've written a lot here about the need for companies to engage in value-conscious design of their products and services. This, admittedly, is no simple task. Ever since spending a few weeks thinking about this topic a few years ago,…

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Special issue of First Monday: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0

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I am pleased to announce the (open) publication of a special issue of First Monday on "Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0." This special issue was born from a panel I organized at AoIR, and features amazing contributions from Trebor Scholz,…

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Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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I'm pleased to announce that Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives has, after 2 years in the making, been published in the Information Science and Knowledge Management series by Springer. Co-edited with Amanda Spink, Web Search is a collection of chapters approaching…

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