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4S: Privacy and Surveillance in Web 2.0

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 11, 2007in Events, Privacy, Values In Design

I am currently attending the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Montreal. Earlier today I had the pleasure of participating on a panel I co-organized with Anders Albrechtslund titled, "Ways Knowing Everything About Each Other:…

Discipline & Punish: The Game

Posted by Michael Zimmeron November 6, 2006in Events, Privacy, Values In Design

I sat in on a fascinating panel on surveillance in MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games) at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annual meeting in Vancouver last week: DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH: THE GAME ABSTRACT: This panel brings together…

Recovering…in Vancouver

Posted by Michael Zimmeron November 3, 2006in Events, Values In Design

Blogging has been light again lately as I've been recovering from my extended European tour (which included a terrible cold mid-way through, unhelped by Europe's restrictions on cold medication available over-the-counter). Here's a quick summary: I presented at the Social…