Center For Information Policy Research

Information Ethics Fellow Program

 

The Center for Information Policy Research at the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is pleased to announce its 2007-08 Information Ethics Fellows. The IE Fellows Program was initiated in 2006 to highlight prominent scholars in the information ethics field, and to promote innovative research in IE.

 

2008-09 Fellows to Include:

Rafael Capurro, Dennis Ocholla, Nancy Kranich, Annette Markham, and Jeremy Hunsinger

 

 

The 2007-08 IE Fellows Program hosts:

Fellows:

Rafael Capurro Dr. Rafael Capurro, Founder and Director of the International Center for Information Ethics, and Editor, International Review of Information Ethics. Dr. Capurro’s work will focus on cross-cultural issues in information ethics.
Bob, Climbing Dr. Robert Hauptman, Professor Emeritus, St. Cloud University, Editor, Journal of Information Ethics, Dr. Hauptman will explore authorial ethics.
Dr. Annette Markham, Communications Scholar and Research Consultant, Author of Life Online. Dr. Markham will participate in the CIPR NSF grant on Internet Research ethics, and continue her scholarship in online ethnography.

 

Junior Fellows:

Jeremy Hunsinger
 Jeremy Hunsinger, Doctoral Candidate, Science and Technology in Society, Virginia Tech, who will continue his work examining the construction of norms within the interfaces of open source software production and how that structures the mode of production of the internet.

 

 

The Fellows spend time in residence at the CIPR, contributing to its Colloquia and Occasional Paper series, and lecturing in SOIS courses. Fellows receive a stipend and access to the CIPR Resource Center, and engage in collaborative work with CIPR Faculty Associates.

The 2006-07 Fellows include Dr. Charles Ess, who focused on east-west perspectives on information and computer ethics, and Dr. Toni Samek, who presented her work on information work and human rights worldwide.

The CIPR's research agenda revolves around social, ethical, economic, legal, and technical aspects of information and information technologies with a focus on such key information policy issues as intellectual property (copyright, patents, etc.), privacy, equity of access to information, ethics of information use and service, censorship, cyberlaw, and government, corporate, and international information policies.

The CIPR reflects the mission and philosophy of the School of Information Studies: Information, our focus; interdisciplinary, our mindset; and international, our scope.

All CIPR lectures are streamed and archived at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/archive.html

For more information, contact cipr@sois.uwm.edu or Elizabeth Buchanan, Director, CIPR, at buchanan@sois.uwm.edu