Hannah Yale, and art student here at UW-Milwaukee, has created an amazing gurellia art project, in collaboration with the UWM Library, called "The Original Google Project." Here's the description from its Facebook page: This project was designed as a collaboration…
Category: Information Ethics
Update on West Bend Library Controversy: Board Members Removed, ALA and Free Speech Groups Object
The controversy over the status of various GLBTQ-themed books (and now, apparently, any "sexually explicit" books) in the young adult section at the West Bend Library has taken a turn for the worse. The city's common council voted against reappointing…
UW-M School of Information Studies Statement of Support for the West Bend Library
In recent weeks, two citizens of West Bend, Wisconsin have petitioned the West Bend Community Memorial Library to remove gay-themed books from a section designated “Young Adults,” arguing the books should be reclassified and placed in a restricted area requiring…
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Facebook’s Attempt at Open Governance
After reverting to its old terms of service in the face of increasing criticism, Facebook has followed up on its promise to give users "a lot of input in crafting" the next version of the social networking giant's TOS. Today,…
Values and Pragmatic Action: The Challenges of Introducing Ethical Intelligence in Technical Design Communities
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,…
School Bans Teacher-Student Communication on Social Networks
A Milwaukee-area school district has enacted a policy banning communication between school staff and students on social networking Web sites and instant messaging services. According to this report, the school board seems to be concerned over the fact they can't…
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Electronic Medical Records: Threats & Opportunities
It has been a while since I wrote about electronic/online medical records, but two stories popped onto my radar that deserve mention. The first focuses on the inherent threats of having medical information stored and displayed electronically: bugs. Apparently one-third…
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Blacklisting Wikipedia to Prevent Spread of Child Porn Increases Spread of Child Porn
File this under "duh" - via Wired Threat Level: Wikipedia's functionality was returning to normal Tuesday after an internet watchdog group removed the online encyclopedia from a child porn watchlist. The brouhaha began Saturday, when the England-based Internet Watch Foundation…
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A Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
http://blip.tv/play/AdmOeIz4Yw Educators often use (or want to use) copyrighted materials from mass media and popular culture in building students’ critical thinking and communication skills. For example, I often have students analyze a particular website or a television ad to identify…
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CFP: The Ethics of Information Organization
I am pleased to announce that the Center for Information Policy Research and the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are hosting an important conference on "The Ethics of Information Organization". The full CFP is below: The…
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