Wired News writes about Prof. Markus Giesler's ethnographic study of iPod users called "iPod Therefore iAm." Giesler uncovers the formation of a new "cyborg consumer":According to Giesler's preliminary research, the iPod isn't simply an updated Walkman. It's an entirely new…
Category: Issues
No Place to Hide
(Via Privacy Digest) The New York Times reviews Robert O'Harrow's new book No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society:...Mr. O'Harrow provides in these pages an authoritative and vivid account of the emergence of a "security-industrial…
Seeking Better Web Searches
Scientific American is seeking better Web searches. They report on all sorts of innovations happening outside the Google-Yahoo-MSN zone that the press is usually reporting on, including GPS-enhanced searches from University of Maryland, Shape Retrieval and Analysis from Princeton, musical…
Tool for Thought
Steven Johnson writes a fascinating essay in the NY Times Sunday Book Review on the tool he uses for organizing and collecting thoughts - a wonderful example of an innovative information interface. Consider how I used the tool in writing…
What Contracts Can’t Do: The Limits of Private Ordering in Facilitating a Creative Commons
Today I attended the latest Colloquium on Information Technology & Society hosted by the Information Law Institute (of which I'm a Student Fellow), at New York University School of Law. Professor Niva Elkin-Koren of Haifa University Law School gave an…
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Workshop Values in Computer Design and Information System Design
I've been accepted as a Graduate Fellow to the Values in Computer Design and Information System Design workshop hosted by the Center for Science, Technology & Society at Santa Clara University. It should prove to be an ecxellent opportunity to…
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The Age of Egocasting
Christine Rosen's article "The Age of Egocasting" in the latest The New Atlantis provides needed insight on the impact of new technology (such as TiVo & iPod) on our desire to feel "in control" of the media that we experience.…
Technopolis
Just came across Langdon Winner's blog, Technopolis: Technopolis, a weblog by Langdon Winner, offers occasional reflections on historical, philosophical, and contemporary questions that involve the perplexing intersection of human ends and means.
The Digital Person
I just finished Daniel Solove's The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age. Here are excerpts from my review of the book for the academic journal Ethics & Information Technology....Solove, an associate law professor at George Washington University…
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