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…
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Discussions of social media platforms and their impact on communication, collaboration, sociability, privacy, and norms of information flow.
Seeking Postdoctoral Research Associate to Join PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research
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…
New NSF Grant Project: 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 -…
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New Book: “Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Challenges, Cases, and Contexts”
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…
First Monday special issue: “A Decade of Web 2.0: Reflections, Critical Perspectives, and Beyond”
I am extremely happy to announce the publication of “A Decade of Web 2.0: Reflections, Critical Perspectives, and Beyond”, a special issue of First Monday that I was privileged to co-edit with Dr. Anna L. Hoffmann. The issue includes an impressive set of…
The Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress: Challenges for Information Practice and Information Policy
I'm very excited to announce the publication of "The Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress: Challenges for Information Practice and Information Policy" in the July 2015 issue of First Monday. This work develops some of my earlier posts (here,…
CFP for First Monday special issue: “A Decade of Web 2.0: Reflections, Critical Perspectives, and Beyond”
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IR15 Presentation: “Privacy and Control in Mark Zuckerberg’s Discourse on Facebook”
This week I'm attending the 15th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers -- IR15: Boundaries and Intersections -- in Daegu, Korea. I had the great privilege to present on a research collaboration with Dr. Anna Lauren Hoffmann, where we…
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A Topology of Twitter Research: Disciplines, Methods, and Ethics
I'm pleased to announce the publication of "A Topology of Twitter Research: Disciplines, Methods, and Ethics" in the Aslib Journal of Information Management, a project I co-authored with Nick Proferes. It appears in a special issue dedicated to "Twitter data analytics",…
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Washington Post Essay: Mark Zuckerberg’s theory of privacy
This week marks the 10th anniversary of Facebook, and to help commemorate this milestone I wrote an essay for The Washington Post that postulates an early framework of Mark Zuckerberg's theory of privacy, based on a preliminary analysis of the…
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