Forwarded per request Lois Ann Scheidt MPA MIS SPHR CCP Doctoral Student School of Library and Information Science Indiana University Bloomington IN USA Webpage: http://www.loisscheidt.com Blog: http://www.professional-lurker.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:49:06 -0600 From: Bruce Henderson <bruce.henderson@colorado.edu> Subject: Re: ethics; continuatiion of New Research for New Media subject: Ethics of Internet Research conference deadline now April 30; ethics of linking paper added Deadline extended until April 30; ethics of linking presentation added The New Media Center at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and The Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota, invite you to apply for participation in an upcoming workshop and symposium: Understanding Internet Research Ethics Please join us and our distinguished speakers and workshop leaders for three days of exploring and discussing ethics issues involving Internet research. The workshop/symposium will be held from June 17-19, 2004, at the University of Boulder at Colorado. Complete conference information is at http://newmedia.colorado.edu/ethics We are asking attendees to submit questions or scenarios involving Internet research ethical dilemmas to be discussed fully during the conference. The deadline for registration and submission of scenarios is EXTENDED TO APRIL 30. The speakers and workshop leaders for this conference are: NEW: Michael J. Bugeja, director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University, is an ethicist and author of 18 books, including Living Without Fear: Understanding Cancer and the New Therapies and Living Ethics: Developing Values in Mass Communication. His latest work, Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age, is forthcoming in August from Oxford Univ. Press. Dr. Bugeja is a frequent source about media, technology and ethics, interviewed by American Journalism Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, Columbia Journalism Review, Newsday, and Fox News and CBS radio. His writing and creative works have appeared in a variety of publications, including Harpers, The Chronicle Review, Word & World, Editor & Publisher, Quill, Journalism Educator, and Journalism Quarterly. His awards include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, and an Ohio Arts Council fellowship, among others. Dr. Bugeja and Daniela Dimitrova, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Iowa State University, will present their co-authored paper examining the ethics of using online citations, entitled "The Half-Life of Internet Footnotes." o Charles Ess is Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Distinguished Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Drury University, Springfield, Missouri. He has chaired the ethics working committee of the Association of Internet Researchers ( AoIR ). The committee developed the first interdisciplinary, international set of ethical guidelines for online research, as approved by AoIR in November, 2002 ( ). More recently, Dr. Ess has served as a consultant for the RESPECT Project of the European Commission, as it seeks to develop ethical guidelines for socio-economic research throughout the European Union. o Elizabeth Buchanan is an assistant professor and co-director of the Center for Information Policy Research at the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the editor of the 2003 book "Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies", and is a guest editor for a forthcoming special issue of Journal of Information Ethics. She currently teaches courses in ethics and technology, research methods, distance education, and intellectual freedom. Elizabeth has recently published a chapter in Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World: Theory and Practice, and has two chapters in the second edition of Readings in Cyberethics o Annette Markham is an assistant professor at University of Illinois at Chicago, where she teaches courses in Internet and Identity, Ethnography, Critical Organizational Communication, and Interpretive Qualitative Methods. Her ethnographically based research of Internet use and experience is well represented in her book _Life Online: Researching real experience in virtual space_ (AltaMira, 1998). Her current research explores the methodological practices and epistemological challenges of studying Internet-mediated cultural contexts and of conducting qualitative research using internet-based technologies. o Phil Weiser has a joint appointment at the University of Colorado in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Department and the School of Law and serves as the Executive Director of the Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program. He is currently working on a book (with Jon Nuechterlein) on "Understanding Telecommunications Policy: The Law and Economics of Competition in the Digital Age," which will be published in the spring of 2005 by MIT Press. Weiser served as the Senior Counsel for Telecommunications Policy to Joel Klein, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, at the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Weiser teaches and writes in the areas of telecommunications regulation, antitrust policy, intellectual property and constitutional law. Bruce Henderson Associate Professor Director, New Media Center School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Colorado at Boulder Nora Paul Director, Institute for New Media Studies School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Minnesota