Hi All, For those of you in the Chicago area (or even if you're not), you might consider attending the 2nd Annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics. October 29, 2012 Loyola University Chicago, IL website, registration, flyers, etc: http://digitalethics.org/events/international-symposium-digital-ethics/ Besides the featured speaker, Sherry Turkle, there's a fantastic lineup of speakers, including many of our own AOIR members. I've listed the papers below, so you can get a flavor of the event. Hope to see some of you there, annette - *Contextual Integrity Confronts New Models of Education and Healthcare* – Helen Nissenbaum, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, and Computer Science, at New York University - *Big Real Problems: Emerging Ethics Issues in Human Experimentation in Virtual Worlds* – Joshua Fairfield, Associate Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University - *Identity, Authority and Unease: Examining the articulation of ethical positions in accounts of new media use/research -*Natasha Whiteman, Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, University of Leicester - *The Ethics of Twitter Research: A Topology of Disciplines, Methods and Ethics Review Boards* – Michael Zimmer & Nicholas Proferes, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - *Degrees of Trust and Levels of Moral Agency in the Context of Autonomous Machines*, Herman Tavani, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Rivier University - *Virtue Ethics and Digital ‘Flourishing’: An Application of Philippa Foot to Life Online* – Patrick Lee Plaisance, Colorado State University - *Online security and individuals rights, an ethical balance* – Mariaroarosaria Taddeo, University of Hertfordshire - *The Junk File Case: Identity collisions and the ethics of connectivity * – Guillaume Latzko-Toth, Université Laval - *Control, Communication, and Conflict on Facebook Memorial Pages* – Nicole B. Ellison, Associate Professor, Michigan State University, and Alice Marwick, Microsoft Research - *Click here to comment: Combining ethical and legal perspectives on Section 230* – Susan Keith, Rutgers University - *Should virtual cybercrime be brought under the scope of the criminal law?* – Litska Strikwerda, University of Twente - *Journalists and Social Media: Professional Restrictions and Their Ethical Implications* – Erica Bailey, Virginia Tech - *Re-Inventing Media Ethics Amid a Digital Revolution* – Stephen J. A. Ward, Burgess Professor of Journalism Ethics, University of Wisconsin - *The Emerging Uses of Ethical Principles in Journalist’s Privilege Law* – Jason M. Shepard, California State University, Fullerton - *The Ethics of Unpublication* – Jasmine McNealy, Syracuse University & Laurence Alexander, University of Florida. - *The Ethical Implications of an Elite Press* – Jane B. Singer, University of Iowa - *The Internet and Authoritarian States: Ethical Issues in Transnational Digital Activism* – Cameran Ashraf, University of California, Los Angeles - *“Yes, Vinton, there is a Human Right to the Internet”* – Kay Mathiesen, University of Arizona - *A Case Study of Censor Circumvention in Chinese Micro-blogging Site* – Yiran Wang, University of California, Irvine - *Secrets and Lies: Digital Media Ethics and Integrity in Global Perspective* – Twyla Gibson, Harvard University - *YouTube Shakespeares: Ethical Issues in Humanities and Literary Research Contexts* – Valerie Fazel, Arizona State University - *Digital ethics and the Pascua Yaqui Tribe: When moral rights about culture trump legal rights about digital image gathering* –Kevin R. Kemper, University of Arizona - *From Battlefield to Newsroom: Ethical and Legal Implications of Drone Technology in Journalism* – Kathleen Bartzen Culver, University of Wisconsin-Madison - *In Context: Ethical Implications of Digital Surveillance* – Jan Fernback, Temple University - *The Curator’s Code: Toward an Ethics of Curation?* – Shawn McIntosh, Columbia University - *The Ethics of Online Coursework: Instructor Responsibilities, Student Participation, and Managing Public-Private Learning-*Vanessa P. Dennen, Florida State University - *Reading Privacy: The Role Interface Aesthetics Play in eReader Privacy Disclosure Decisions* – J. Richard Stevens, University of Colorado at Boulder - Plug away: disclosure of material connections in social media channels – David Kamerer, Loyola University Chicago - *Playing with ethics: Digital games and moral dilemmas: *Mia Consalvo, Canada Research Chair in Game Studies & Design, Concordia University - *The Virtual Other: Thinking about virtuality and the future of ethics* – Lucas D. Introna, Professor & Associate Dean for Research, Centre for the Study of Technology & Organisation, Lancaster University - *Beyond good and evil? Analyzing moral decision-making in mainstream video games* – Thorsten Busch, University of St. Gallen - *Biases on Truthfulness: Using a Game to Prompt Self-Reflection* – Ralph Vacca, New York University ***************************************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Guest Professor, Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago amarkham@gmail.com http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Twitter: annettemarkham