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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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…
Last week, the Wisconsin Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee (JFC) passed a budget omnibus motion that affects the entire University of Wisconsin system. Sections 23-26 of the budget measure includes new telecommunication rules that would have extraordinarily negative ramifications, particularly for…
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I'm pleased to announce that the first book in the MIT Press "Information Society Series" I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: Interfaces on Trial 2.0 By Jonathan Band and Masanobu Katoh March 2011 ISBN-10: 0-262-01500-5 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01500-4…
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Building from the successful event on Minding the Gaps: WikiLeaks and Internet Security in the 21st Century held at UW-Milwaukee, I will be joining my colleague Dr. Joyce Latham to discuss Intellectual Freedom vs. WikiLeaks at the Brookfield Public Library…
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If you're in Milwaukee on February 4, please join us for this event organized by UW-Milwaukee's Center for 21st Century Studies, and co-sponsored by the Center for Information Policy Research. Full details here. Minding the Gaps: WikiLeaks and Internet Security…
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[This three-part post is authored by SOIS PhD student Anthony Hoffmann; access other student posts here.] Asserting Rights Online, Part I: Online Intermediaries and “Digital Citizenship” Recently, Danielle Citron has initiated a discussion at Concurring Opinions regarding the subject…
[This post is authored by SOIS PhD student Liza Barry-Kessler; access other student posts here.] The FCC recently announced that it will vote on “preserving the open Internet” at its December 21, 2010 meeting. This will be a high profile…
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[This post is authored by SOIS PhD student Jeremy Mauger; access other student posts here.] Section 3.7(e) Google’s Exclusion of Books Google may, at its discretion, exclude particular Books from one or more Display Uses for editorial or non-editorial reasons.…
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[This post is authored by SOIS PhD student Nick Proferes; access other student posts here.] A threat to individual online privacy often serves as a call to digital arms. It’s been nearly a month since the Firefox Add-On “FireSheep” was…
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