Michael Zimmer, PhD, is a privacy and internet ethics scholar, most notable for his work in online privacy, the ethical dimensions of social media & internet technologies, libraries & privacy, and internet research ethics.
Dr. Zimmer is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he also serves as Director of the Center for Information Policy Research.
Highlights…
- Collaborating with Dr. Jessica Vitak (University of Maryland) and Drs. Jason Pridmore and Daniel Trottier (Erasmus University) on the NSF-funded project “Mapping Privacy and Surveillance Dynamics in Emerging Mobile Ecosystems: Practices and Contexts in the Netherlands and US“.
- Collaborating with Bonnie Tijerina at Data & Society, along with the American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom and the New York Public Library, on the IMLS-funded project “Library Values & Privacy in our National Digital Strategies”
- Collaborating with my colleague Dr. Nadine Kozak on “Assessing the Implementation of CIPA-Mandated Internet Filtering in U.S. Public Libraries”.
- Co-editing a book on Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Challenges, Cases, and Contexts with Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda, to be published in 2017 by Peter Lang.
- Editing a special issue on “Privacy” for the Spring 2017 issue of the American Library Association’s Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy (JIFP).
- Writing a book Privacy Rights: A Documentary and Reference Guide, to be published by ABC-CLIO/Greenwood.
- Zimmer, M. & Tijerina, B. (2017). Foundations of privacy in libraries. In B. Newman (Ed.), Protecting Patron Privacy in the 21st Century Library. Rowman & Littlefield.
- Zimmer, M. & Caldwell-Stone, D. (2017). Privacy law and regulation. In B. Newman (Ed.), Protecting Patron Privacy in the 21st Century Library. Rowman & Littlefield.
- Leurs, K. & Zimmer, M. (Eds.). (2017). Platform Values: #AoIR16 Special Issue. Information, Communication and Society, 20(6).
- Buchanan, E.A., & Zimmer, M. (2016). Internet research ethics (revised). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy(Fall 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).
- Hoffmann, A., Proferes, N., and Zimmer, M. (2016). “Making the World More Open and Connected”: Mark Zuckerberg and the Discursive Construction of Facebook and Its Users. New Media & Society
- Zimmer, M. & Hoffmann, A. L. (2016). Preface: A decade of Web 2.0 – Reflections, critical perspectives, and beyond. First Monday, 21(6).
- Zimmer, M. (2015). The Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress: Challenges for information practice and information policy. First Monday, 20(7)
- “Ethics of Big Data II” symposium, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI (April 28, 2017)
- Workshop on “The Ethics of Data Access, Use, and Sharing for Human Subjects Research” Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R), Boston, MA (March 1, 2017)
- Association of Internet Researchers annual conference, Berlin, Germany (October 5-8, 2016)
- Values in Design Council / Future Internet Architecture meeting, Arlington, VA (September 20-21, 2016)
- “Ethics in Library Research Data Services: Conceptual Gaps + Policy Vacuums“, ALISE Webinar on Ethics in Library Research Data Services (August 30, 2016)
- “AI Now: The Social and Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in the Near-Term”, Invitation-only workshop organized by The White House and New York University, New York, NY (July 7, 2016)
- Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Washington, DC (June 2-3, 2016)
- “Challenges and Futures for Ethical Social Media Research” ICWSM 2016 Ethics Workshop, Cologne, Germany (May 17, 2016)
- “Catalyzing by Design,” Privacy by Design workshop #4, Computing Community Consortium, Washington, DC (January 6-7, 2016)
- “Beyond IRBs: Designing Ethical Review Processes for Big Data Research,” Future of Privacy Forum – NSF Workshop, Washington, DC (December 10, 2015)
- Thrive Global, “Tech Companies May Soon Know More About Your Emotions Than You Do” by Drake Baer (May 5, 2017)
- New York Magazine, “How Facebook Can Fix Its Fake-News Problem” by Drake Baer (November 14, 2016)
Software Engineering Daily, “Zuckerberg Files With Michael Zimmer and Nick Proferes” podcast (September 28, 2016) - The Wall Street Journal, “WhatsApp to Share User Data With Facebook” by Deepa Seetharaman and Brian Fitzgerald (August 25, 2016)
- The Atlantic, “Can Twitter Fit Inside the Library of Congress?” by Andrew McGill (August 4, 2016)
- WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio, “Big Data Research Creates Ethical Concerns” with Joy Powers (May 31, 2016)
- Promoting Inclusiveness in Course Planning April 12, 2017
- Information Society Series Book Announcement: Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community April 10, 2017
- New Project: Assessing the Implementation of CIPA-Mandated Internet Filtering in U.S. Public Libraries April 3, 2017
- #AOIR2016 special issue of Information, Communication & Society: Platform Values March 15, 2017
- Call for Papers: “Privacy” Issue of Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy (Spring 2017) December 9, 2016
- Information Society Series Book Announcement: The End of Ownership November 4, 2016
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