Conferences – MichaelZimmer.org

International Symposium on Internet Ethics presentation: “Internet Ethics Issues and Action in the United States”

Posted by Michael Zimmeron September 6, 2012in Events, Information Ethics, Internet

Next week I will be a featured speaker at the first "International Symposium on Internet Ethics" hosted by the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) and Korea Society of Internet Ethics (KSIE). Alongside other international representatives, I will be presenting…

CIPR Student Travel Grant for AoIR 2012 Internet Research Conference

Posted by Michael Zimmeron July 25, 2012in Academic

I'm again pleased to announce this funding opportunity for graduate students attending Internet Research 13 in Salford, UK: The UW-Milwaukee Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) is pleased to again offer a CIPR Student Award in Information Policy & Ethics,…

ICA 2012: Researching Social Media: Ethical and Methodological Challenges

Posted by Michael Zimmeron May 26, 2012in Events, Internet Research Ethics, Social Media

I'm currently in Phoenix, AZ for the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, participating on an important panel on "Researching Social Media: Ethical and Methodological Challenges", organized by Anders Olof Larsson (Uppsala) and Hallvard Moe (Bergen). The panel is…

iConference 2012: The ethical (re)design of the Google Books project

Posted by Michael Zimmeron February 9, 2012in Events, Information Ethics, Search Engines, Values In Design

I'm currently in Toronto, Canada for iConference 2012, presented by the iSchools organization, a worldwide collective of 33 Information Schools. The theme of the conference is "Culture-Design-Society", and I will be presenting a paper titled "The ethical (re)design of the…

CFP: Internet Research 13.0: Technologies (2012 – Salford, UK)

Posted by Michael Zimmeron December 22, 2011in Events, Internet

The 13th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) is being held  October 18-21, 2012 in Salford (Greater Manchester) UK. The full call for papers is below: Call for Papers Internet Research 13.0: Technologies The…

Presentations at PRIM&R 2011 “Adancing Ethical Research”

Posted by Michael Zimmeron December 1, 2011in Events, Internet Research Ethics

This weekend I have the great privilege of sharing my research and perspectives on Internet research ethics at the 2011 "Advancing Ethical Research" conference held by Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R). On the opening morning of the conference,…

Preview of Association of Internet Researchers IR.12 Conference

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 7, 2011in Events, Internet

I'm looking forward to spending next week in Seattle, WA for the for the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Internet Research 12.0 - Performance and Participation. (Full program is available here) Monday, Elizabeth Buchanan and I are convening a doctoral…

Libraries as Freedom of Information Gazebos

Posted by Michael Zimmeron April 21, 2011in Events, Libraries1 Comment

I recently attended the 9th annual Information Ethics Roundtable hosted by the University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science. This year's theme was "Human Rights as Information Rights,"and featured a great collection of papers. I presented a…

Debrief: Internet Research 11.0 Conference (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 26, 2010in Events, Internet, Internet Research Ethics, Privacy, Social Media

Last week I attended Internet Research 11.0: Sustainability, Participation, Action, the 11th annual conference for the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), in Gothenburg, Sweden. This is the conference I look forward to the most each year, thanks to the steady…

2011 ALISE Information Ethics SIG CFP: Innovations in Teaching Information Ethics Across Contexts

Posted by Michael Zimmeron July 22, 2010in Events, Information Ethics

I have been charged with convening a panel for the Information Ethics special interest group of ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education), to be held at its 2011 annual conference.I've decided to focus on how LIS scholars and…