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“Privacy in Web-Search” Panel Discussion 3/30/07

Posted by Michael Zimmeron March 21, 2007in Privacy, Search Engines

I'm pleased to announce I will be moderating a panel discussion on "Privacy in Web Search" as part of the ITS Colloquium at NYU Law's Information Law Institute. The panelists are: Ramsey Homsany, Senior Counsel, Google Daniel Howe, Ph.D. Candidate,…

CEPE 2007: Seventh International Computer Ethics Conference

Posted by Michael Zimmeron March 5, 2007in Events, Information Ethics, Values In Design1 Comment

Noëmi Manders-Huits (Delft University of Technology) and I have been accepted to present our paper “Values and pragmatic action: The challenges of engagement with technical design communities” at CEPE 2007: Seventh International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry, hosted by…

University Professor Chastised For Using Tor

Posted by Michael Zimmeron February 8, 2007in Internet, Privacy

Here's a chilling first-person account of a university professor who was asked to stop using the anonymizing network software, Tor. University IT and campus security staffers came knocking on Prof. Paul Cesarini's door asking why he was using Tor, and…

NYU Council for Media and Culture

Posted by Michael Zimmeron February 5, 2007in Academic

The website for NYU's Council for Media & Culture, who co-sponsored our "Identity and Identification in a Networked World" symposium, has launched: The Council for Media and Culture provides a forum for scholarly and public ventures that probe the form…

IINW in First Monday

Posted by Michael Zimmeron December 5, 2006in Internet, Publications, Values In Design

I am pleased to announce that selected papers from the “Identity and Identification in a Networked World” graduate student symposium held at New York University in September have been published in a special issue of First Monday. Here are titles…

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…

Debrief: Social Software and Web 2.0 seminar

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 8, 2006in Events, Social Media, Values In Design3 Comments

I presented at the Social Software and Web 2.0: Critical Perspectives and Challenges for Research and Business seminar and workshop a few days ago at Aalborg University in Denmark. My talk, "The Panoptic Gaze of Web 2.0: How Web 2.0…

Light Blogging

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 2, 2006in Events, Social Media2 Comments

Blogging has been light lately as I have been quite busy in "real life": I'm pleased to announce that the "Identity and Identification in a Networked World" graduate student symposium was a smashing success this past weekend. Well over 100…

Critical Perspectives on Social Software and Web 2.0

Posted by Michael Zimmeron September 6, 2006in Events, Privacy, Social Media2 Comments

Anders Albrechtslund has organized an amazing Social Software and Web 2.0: Critical Perspectives and Challenges for Research and Business seminar and workshop hosted by Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark on October 6, 2006: Social software and Web 2.0 are concepts (or…

NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant

Posted by Michael Zimmeron July 21, 2006in Mobility, Privacy, Professional, Search Engines, Values In Design5 Comments

I am pleased to announce that I have been awarded a Science & Society Dissertation Improvement Grant from the Division of Social and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation. This grant will support my dissertation research of the value…