Michael Zimmer, PhD, is a digital privacy and data ethics scholar at Marquette University
I'm thrilled to announce PERVADE (Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research), a collaborative, 4-year research project funded by a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study how diverse stakeholders - big data researchers, platforms, regulators, and user communities -…
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Following up on my recent editorial at Wired, “OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils Of Big-Data Science”, I have posted an expanded version of that opinion piece at Ampersand, the blog for Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R), a space committed to promoting dialogue and…
Read More More on OkCupid and the Ethics of Big Data Research
I'm excited to join (another) NISO project, in partnership with the Research Data Alliance, focusing on the privacy implications of shared research data. I'll be joining Todd Carpenter (NISO) and Bonnie Tijerina as co-chairs leading this effort. The RDA/NISO Privacy Implications of…
Read More Joining NISO-RDA Working Group on Privacy Implications of Research Data Sets
I'm pleased to announce the publication of "A Topology of Twitter Research: Disciplines, Methods, and Ethics" in the Aslib Journal of Information Management, a project I co-authored with Nick Proferes. It appears in a special issue dedicated to "Twitter data analytics",…
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Today I have the great privilege of presenting the preliminary results of a research project exploring the ethics of Twitter-based research, co-authored with Nick Proferes, at the second annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics, hosted by the Center for Digital…
Recently, I was approached by a team of researchers concerned with the research ethics issues related to using Facebook to recruit human subjects. Specifically, the team was planning to use Facebook advertisements in order to target certain users for a…
Read More Thoughts on Privacy and the Use of Facebook to Recruit Research Subjects
On Friday October 12, 2012, I will be delivering the keynote address at the Virginia IRB Consortium Conference at the University of Virginia. My talk is "Research, the Cloud, and the IRB" (slides are below). While the presentation shares some…
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On Friday October 5, 2012, I will have the great pleasure of presenting my work on "Research Ethics in the 2.0 Era: New Challenges for Researchers and IRBs" for the University of Pittsburgh Institutional Review Board Educational Series. I've discussed…
I'm thrilled to announce that the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has published a new entry on "Internet Research Ethics", written by Elizabeth Buchanan and myself. I'm confident the existence of this entry in such a popular and prestigious publication will help increase awareness of these important issues.
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