Michael Zimmer, PhD, is a digital privacy and data ethics scholar at Marquette University
I'm excited to share the newest book published in the “Information Society Series” at MIT Press that I co-edit with Laura DeNardis. Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P by Robert Gehl Summary An exploration of the Dark Web—websites accessible…
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Over at the Center for Information Policy Research, we've posted the final report for the IMLS-funded project “Library Values & Privacy in our National Digital Strategies: Field guides, Convenings, and Conversations” which I've been working on over the past year with Bonnie Tijerina at Data & Society. From…
(I posted this earlier today on the PERVADE (Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research) team's Medium channel) The growth of research projects relying on pervasive data — big datasets about people’s lives and activities that can be collected without them knowing —…
Read More How Contextual Integrity can help us with Research Ethics in Pervasive Data
I'm happy to share the (open) publication of a new article "Addressing Conceptual Gaps in Big Data Research Ethics: An Application of Contextual Integrity" in Social Media + Society. In this article, I revisit the OkCupid data collection and release controversy,…
Since 2006, two years after Facebook's launch and right about when I joined the platform, I've been posting on this blog (at least as long as blogging was a thing) about numerous privacy concerns related to the social network.Posts include…
I am hiring a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to work on the PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research project! This is a 12-month position, with possible renewal for a 2nd year. Details below. Please join us! Position: Postdoctoral Research Assistant Project: PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics…
[Note: this PhD position is no longer available. See recent posting for a Postdoctoral Research Associate here] Are you a graduate student interested in big data, data ethics, internet research, or internet research ethics? Are you looking for a funded…
Read More Funded PhD Position to Join PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research
I'm thrilled to announce PERVADE (Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research), a collaborative, 4-year research project funded by a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study how diverse stakeholders - big data researchers, platforms, regulators, and user communities -…
Read More New NSF Grant Project: PERVADE — Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research
I am extremely happy to announce the publication of "Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Challenges, Cases, and Contexts", which I was lucky to co-edit with Dr. Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda at the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and the Institute…
I'm thrilled to announce that the "Privacy" special issue of the American Library Association’s Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy (JIFP) has now been published. The issue can be accessed here, and subscription information is here. Here is my introduction to the…
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