michael zimmer curriculum vitae

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1. Michael T. Zimmer

2. General Information

2.1. Formal Education

September 2007, Ph.D. in Media, Culture and Communication, New York University

May 2002, M.A. in Media Ecology, New York University

May 1994, B.B.A. in Marketing (Gender Studies specialization) University of Notre Dame

2.2. Significant Continuing Education

2.2.4 Summer Doctoral Programme. Oxford Internet Institute, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA. July 2007.

2.2.3 Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar. The Surveillance Project, Queens University, Kingston, Canada. June 2007.

2.2.2 Graduate Student Workshop on “Values in Computer Design and Information System Design.” Center for Science, Technology & Society, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA. July 2005.

2.2.1 Graduate WebShop Seminar on the “Impact of the Internet on Society.” Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. June 2003.

2.3. Academic and Professional Positions Held

2.3.5 August 2008 – present. Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

2.3.4 August 2007 – July 2008. Resident Fellow and Post-Doctoral Associate in Law, Information Society Project, Yale Law School

2.3.3 August 2004 – May 2007. Student Fellow, Information Law Institute, New York University School of Law

2.3.2 August 2004 – May 2005. Instructor, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University

2.3.1 September 1994 – August 2001. Marketing Manager / Product Manager / Senior Pricing Analyst, Universal Payment Processing, Milwaukee, WI

3. Research, Scholarship, and Professional Activities

3.1. Articles and papers published or accepted for publication in academic and professional print and electronic journals

Rev. 6/10/2014


3.1.19 Zimmer, M. & McCleer, A. (in press). The 2009 West Bend Community Memorial Library Controversy: Understanding the Challenge, the Reactions, and the Aftermath. Library Trends. [refereed]

3.1.18 Zimmer, M. & Proferes, N. (2014). A topology of Twitter research: Disciplines, methods, and ethics. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 66(3), 250-261. [refereed]

3.1.17 Zimmer, M. (2014). Librarian attitudes regarding information and Internet privacy. Library Quarterly, 84(2), 123-151. [refereed]

3.1.16 Zimmer, M. (2013). Assessing the treatment of patron privacy in library 2.0 literature. Information Technology and Libraries, 32(2), 29-41. [refereed]

3.1.15 Zimmer, M. (2013). Patron privacy in the “2.0” era: Avoiding the Faustian bargain of library 2.0. Journal of Information Ethics, 22(1), 44-59. [refereed]

3.1.14 Nagel, D., Rath, M., & Zimmer, M. (2012). Secrets about secrecy: An introduction. [Preface: Special issue on Ethics of Secrecy]. International Review of Information Ethics, 17, 1-2.

3.1.13 Britz, J., Hoffmann, A., Ponelis, S., Zimmer, M., & Lor, P. (2012). On considering the application of Amartya Sen’s capability approach to an information-based rights framework, Information Development, 29(2), 106-113. [refereed]

3.1.12 Buchanan, E.A., & Zimmer, M. (2012). Internet research ethics. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.). Available online at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-internet-research/ [refereed]

3.1.11 Zimmer, M. (2012). The ethical (re) design of the Google Books Project. Proceedings of the 2012 iConference, 363-369. [refereed]

3.1.10 Zimmer, M. (2010). Innovations and challenges in teaching information ethics across educational contexts. International Review of Information Ethics, 14, 17-22. [invited]

3.1.9 Zimmer, M. (2010). “But the data is already public”: On the ethics of research in Facebook. Ethics and Information Technology, 12(4), 313-325. [refereed]

3.1.8 Manders-Huits, N., & Zimmer, M. (2009). Values and pragmatic action: The challenges of introducing ethical intelligence in technical design communities. International Review of Information Ethics, 10, 37-44. [refereed]

3.1.7 Zimmer, M. (2009). Renvois of the past, present and future: Hyperlinks and the structuring of knowledge from the Encyclopédie to Web 2.0. New Media & Society, 11(1&2), 107-125. [refereed]


3.1.6 Zimmer, M. (2008). Vie privée et quête de la perfection des moteurs de recherche audiovisuals [Privacy and the quest for the perfect audiovisual search engine]. Questions de Communication, 14, 115-139. [referred; translated into French]

3.1.5 Zimmer, M. (2008). Preface: Special issue on critical perspectives on Web 2.0. First Monday, 13(3). Available online at http://firstmonday.org/article/view/2137/1943

3.1.4 Zimmer, M. (2008). The externalities of search 2.0: The emerging privacy threats when the drive for the perfect search engine meets Web 2.0. First Monday, 13(3). Available online at http://firstmonday.org/article/view/2136/1944 [refereed]

3.1.3 Zimmer, M. (2008). Privacy on planet Google: Using the theory of “contextual integrity” to expose the privacy threads of Google’s quest for the perfect search engine. Journal of Business & Technology Law, 3(2), 109-126. [refereed]

3.1.2 Zimmer, M. (2005). Surveillance, privacy and the ethics of vehicle safety communication technologies. Ethics and Information Technology, 7(4), 201-210. [refereed]

3.1.1 Zimmer, M. (2004). The tensions of securing cyberspace: The internet, state power & the national strategy to secure cyberspace. First Monday, 9(3). Available online at http://firstmonday.org/article/view/1125/1045 [refereed]

3.2. Books and Monographs

3.2.1 Spink, A., & Zimmer, M. (Eds.). (2008). Web search: Multidisciplinary perspectives. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.

3.3. Chapters in Books Published by Appropriate Publishers

3.3.9 Zimmer, M. (in press). Privacy law and regulation. In P. Ang & R. Mansell (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society. Wiley-Blackwell.

3.3.8 Zimmer, M. (2013). Internet privacy across borders: “Trading up” or a “Race to the bottom”?. In R. Beck (Ed.), Law and Disciplinarity: Thinking beyond Borders. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. [invited]

3.3.7 Zimmer, M., & Proferes, N. (2013). Privacy on Twitter, Twitter on privacy. In A. Bruns, K. Weller, J. Burgess, M. Mahrt & C. Puschmann (Eds.), Twitter and Society (169-181). New York, NY: Peter Lang. [invited]

3.3.6 Zimmer, M., & Hoffmann, A. (2012). Privacy, context, and oversharing: Reputational challenges in a Web 2.0 world. In H. Masum & M. Tovey (Eds.), The Reputation Society: How Online Opinions are Reshaping the Offline World (pp. 175-184). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [refereed]


3.3.5 Manders-Huits, N., & Zimmer, M. (2012). Values and pragmatic action: The challenges of engagement with technical communities in support of value-conscious design. In S. Vaughn, E. Felton, & O. Zelenko (Eds.), Design & Ethics: Reflections on Practice (pp. 57-73). London: Routledge. [refereed]

3.3.4 Zimmer, M. (2011). Privacy protection in the next digital decade: “Trading up” or a “race to the bottom”? In B. Szoka & A. Marcus (Eds.), The Next Digital Decade: Essays on the Future of the Internet (pp. 477-482). Washington, DC: TechFreedom. [invited]

3.3.3 Zimmer, M. (2010). Web search studies: Multidisciplinary perspectives on web search engines. In J. Hunsinger, M. Allen, & L. Klastrup (Eds.), International Handbook of Internet Research (pp. 507-521). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. [invited]

3.3.2 Zimmer, M. (2009). Privacy on the roads: Mobility, vehicle safety communication technologies, and the contextual integrity of personal information flows. In D. Matheson (Ed.), Contours of Privacy (pp. 219-240). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars. [refereed]

3.3.1 Zimmer, M. (2008). The gaze of the perfect search engine: Google as an infrastructure of dataveillance. In A. Spink & M. Zimmer (Eds.), Web Searching: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 77-99). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.

3.9. Research Projects Conducted and Grants Received

3.9.6 June 2012 – August 2013. “The Zuckerberg Files: How Facebook Talks About Privacy.” Support from UWM School of Information Studies Small Award Grant Opportunity (SAGO) program ($1,932), and UWM Office of Undergraduate Research Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) program (two summer awards of $500 each), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Office of Undergraduate Research.

3.9.5 September 2011 – August 2013. “Values in Design in the Future Internet Architecture.” National Science Foundation. Senior Personnel. (Principle Investigator: Helen Nissenbaum, New York University)

3.9.4 September 2011 – August 2012. “Librarian Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Informational Privacy.” American Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom. Principle Investigator, $28,744.

3.9.3 July 2010 – September 2011. “Assessing the Treatment of Patron Privacy in Library 2.0 Literature.” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Information Studies Internal Research Grant. Principle Investigator, $6000.

3.9.2 July 2009 – June 2011. “Internet Research Ethics Digital Library, Resource Center, and Commons.” National Science Foundation. Senior Personnel. (Principle Investigators: Elizabeth Buchanan and Charles Ess)


3.9.1 September 2006 – August 2007. “Privacy on the Roads: Values, Technical Design and the Flow of Personal Information on the Transportation and Information Superhighways.” National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant. Principle Investigator, $12,000.

3.10. Book Reviews, Editorials, Interviews, and Other Minor Publications

3.10.12 Zimmer, M. (2014, February 4). Mark Zuckerberg’s theory of privacy. The Washington Post, C1-C2.

3.10.11 Zimmer, M. (2013). Commentary: Studying cyborgs: re-examining internet studies as human subjects research. Journal of Information Technology 27, 313–314.

3.10.10 Zimmer, M. (2011, April 22). Facebook’s censorship problem. The Huffington Post. Available at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-zimmer/facebooks-censorship-prob_b_852001.html

3.10.9 Hoofnagle, C., & Zimmer, M. (2010, June 2). How to win friends and manipulate people. The Huffington Post. Available at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-jay-hoofnagle/how-to-win-friends-and-ma_b_598572.html

3.10.8 Buchanan, E., & Zimmer, M. (2009). West Bend Public Library challenge: The good, the bad, the ugly. Wisconsin Library Association Intellectual Freedom Roundtable Newsletter, 15(2).

3.10.7 Zimmer, M. (Reviewer). (2009). Search Engine Society. Halavais, A. Cambridge: Polity. In New Media & Society 11(6), 1071-1074.

3.10.6 Zimmer, M. (2008). Privacy and the drive for the perfect audiovisual search engine, In IRIS Special: Searching for Audiovisual Content, special report of the European Audiovisual Observatory

3.10.5 Zimmer, M. (Reviewer). (2008). Theorizing Surveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond, Lyon, D. (Ed.). Portland, OR: Willan. In Surveillance & Society 5(2), 203-205.

3.10.4 Zimmer, M. (Reviewer). (2008). Privacy protection in the network society: “Trading up” or a “race to the bottom”? [Review of the books The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in Global Perspective, by C. Bennett & C. Raab, and Negotiating Privacy: The European Union, the United States, and Personal Data Protection, by D. Heisenberg]. In The Information Society, 24(1). 65-67.

3.10.3 Zimmer, M. (2005, December/January). The value implications of the practice of paid search. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

3.10.2 Zimmer, M. (Reviewer). (2004). The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age, Solove, D. New York: NYU Press. In Ethics and Information Technology, 6(4), 301-302.


3.10.1 Zimmer, M. (Reviewer). (2004). Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society (4th ed.), Crowley, D. & Heyer, P. (Eds.). Boston: Pearson. In Explorations in Media Ecology, 3(2), 143-146.

3.11. Papers and Other Presentations at Academic and Professional Meetings

3.11.54 Zimmer, M. (2014, March). “The Zuckerberg Files: Why Making Everything Mark Zuckerberg Says Public can Protect your Privacy” Center for Professional & Applied Ethics, UNC-Charlotte. Charlotte, NC. [invited speaker]

3.11.53 Zimmer, M. (2014, March). “New Media, New Ethics: How Internet-Based Research Demand Renewed Attention to Research Ethics” Center for Professional & Applied Ethics, UNC-Charlotte. Charlotte, NC. [invited speaker]

3.11.52 Zimmer, M. (2013, October). “Is Library User Privacy still Paramount in the 2.0 Era?” Conversations on Morality, Politics, and Society, Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. [invited speaker]

3.11.51 Zimmer, M. (2013, February). “Patron Privacy in the ’2.0′ Era: Avoiding the Faustian Bargain of Library 2.0.” Information Privacy Workshop at iConference 2013. Fort Worth, TX. [refereed abstract]

3.11.50 Zimmer, M., Thiele, J., & Kapusniak, R. (2013, February). “Ebooks and cross generational perceived privacy issues.” iConference 2013. Fort Worth, TX. [refereed poster]

3.11.49 Zimmer, M. (2012, October). “Ethics of Social Media Research.” Integrating Research Ethics & Scholarship Educational Series, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI. [invited speaker]

3.11.48 Zimmer, M. (2012, October). “Research, the Cloud, and the IRB.” Sixth Annual Virginia IRB Consortium Conference. Charlottesville, VA. [invited keynote speaker]

3.11.47 Zimmer, M. (2012, October). “Internet Research Ethics: Conceptual Gaps for Ethicists, Researchers, IRBs.” University of Pittsburgh Institutional Review Board Educational Series. Pittsburgh, PA. [invited speaker]

3.11.46 Zimmer, M. & Proferes, N. (2012, October). “The Ethics of Twitter Research: A Topology of Disciplines, Methods and Ethics Review Boards.” 2nd Annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics, Center for Digital Ethics & Policy, Loyola University Chicago. Chicago, IL. [refereed abstract]

3.11.45 Zimmer, M. (2012, September). “Internet Ethics Issues and Action in the United States.” International Symposium on Internet Ethics, Korean Internet Security Agency. Seoul, South Korea. [invited speaker]

3.11.44 Zimmer, M. (2012, June). “Perspectives on Youth & Privacy.” American Library Association Annual Conference. Anaheim, CA, June. [invited panelist]


3.11.43 Zimmer, M. (2012, May). “New Media, New Ethics: How Social Media-based Research Demands New Attention to Research Ethics.” International Communication Association, Phoenix, AZ. [refereed abstract]

3.11.42 Zimmer, M. (2012, May). “The Ethical (Re)Design of the Google Books Project.” Current Research Webinar Series, Institute of Museum and Library Services. Washington, DC. [invited speaker]

3.11.41 Zimmer, M. (2012, April). “Library Privacy in the ‘2.0’ Era: Avoiding a Faustian Bargain.” Information Ethics Roundtable. New York, NY. [refereed paper]

3.11.40 Zimmer, M. (2012, February). “Assessing the Treatment of Patron Privacy in Library 2.0 Literature.” iConference 2012. Toronto, Canada. [refereed poster]

3.11.39 Zimmer, M. (2011, December). “Research Ethics in the 2.0 Era: Conceptual Gaps for Ethicists, Researchers, IRBs.” Advancing Ethical Research conference, Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R), Washington, DC. [invited plenary speaker]

3.11.38 Zimmer, M. (2011, December). “Internet Research Ethics: Issues and Challenges.” Department of Energy Human Subjects Working Group Workshop, Washington, DC. [invited speaker]

3.11.37 Zimmer, M. (2011, November). “Promoting Ethical Literacy in the Age of Facebook.” Visions & Expressions Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha. Waukesha, WI. [invited speaker]

3.11.36 Zimmer, M. (2011, October). “Research Ethics in the Digital Era.” International Symposium on Digital Ethics, Center for Digital Ethics, Loyola University Chicago. Chicago, IL. [refereed abstract]

3.11.35 Zimmer, M. (2011, June). “Promoting Ethical Literacy in Youth: How Librarians Can Partner with Parents and Teachers.” American Library Association Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA. [invited panelist]

3.11.34 Zimmer, M. (2011, June). “Youth, Privacy, and Freedom: Using Libraries to Engage Young People.” Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference. Washington, DC. [invited panelist]

3.11.33 Britz, J., Ponelis, S., Zimmer, M., & Lor, P. (2011, April). “From Codification to Actualization: Applying Amartya Sen's Capability Approach to an Information-Based Rights Framework.” Information Ethics Roundtable, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ. [refereed paper]

3.11.32 Zimmer, M. (2010, October). “The Laws of Social Networking, or, How Facebook Feigns Privacy.” Association of Internet Researchers Conference. Gothenburg, Sweden. [refereed abstract]

3.11.31 Zimmer, M. (2010, July). “Research Ethics in the 2.0 Era: Conceptual Gaps for Ethicists, Researchers, IRBs.” Presentation before the Secretary’s Advisory


Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP), Office for Human Research Protections, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Washington, DC. [invited panelist]

3.11.30 Zimmer, M. (2010, May). “Library 2.0 and Patron Privacy: Avoiding a Faustian Bargain.” Privacy Day, UWM Libraries, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, May.

3.11.30 Zimmer, M. (2010, April). “The Google Books Settlement: Preserving Intellectual Freedom in the Face of Googlization.” Featured speaker for WLA Intellectual Freedom Round Table, Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians conference. Milwaukee, WI. [invited speaker]

3.11.29 Zimmer, M. (2010, February). “Subject Privacy and the Release of the Tastes, Ties, and Time Dataset.” Workshop: Revisiting Research Ethics in the Facebook Era: Challenges in Emerging CSCW Research, Computer Supported Cooperative Work Conference. Savannah, GA. [refereed abstract]

3.11.28 Zimmer, M. (2009, October). “‘But the Data is Already Public’: On the Ethics of Research in Facebook.” Association of Internet Researchers Conference. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [refereed abstract]

3.11.27 Zimmer, M. (2009, August). “Thoughts on Privacy and the Google Book Settlement: What’s At Stake, Why We Need to Advocate, and What We Can Do.” The Google Books Settlement and the Future of Information Access, UC-Berkeley School of Information. Berkeley, CA. [invited panelist]

3.11.26 Zimmer, M. (2009, June). “‘But the Data is Already Public’: On the Ethics of Research in Facebook.” International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry. Corfu, Greece. [refereed abstract]

3.11.25 Zimmer, M. (2009, April). “Library 2.0, Access to Knowledge & Patron Privacy: Avoiding a Faustian Bargain.” Library 2.0 Symposium, Information Society Project, Yale Law School. New Haven, CT. [invited panelist]

3.11.24 Zimmer, M. (2008, August). “Contextual Integrity as a Normative Guide for Privacy.” Society of American Archivists Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA. [invited panelist]

3.11.23 Zimmer, M. (2008, May). “Renvois of the Past, Present and Future: Hyperlinks, Discourse Networks, and the Structuring of Knowledge from the Encyclopédie to Web 2.0.” Pre-conference on the Long History of New Media, International Communication Association Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada. [refereed paper]

3.11.22 Zimmer, M. (2008, April). “Privacy and Audiovisual Search.” Expert Workshop on “Audiovisual Search: Regulatory Challenges for Audiovisual Abundance,” Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [invited lecture]


3.11.21 Zimmer, M. (2007, October). “The Externalities of Search 2.0: The Flow of Personal Information in the Drive for the Perfect Search Engine.” American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI. [refereed paper]

3.11.20 Zimmer, M. (2007, October). “Surveillance 2.0: Peer-to-Peer Surveillance, Amateur Data Mining, and the (Unintended?) Consequences of Web 2.0.” Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada. [refereed abstract]

3.11.19 Zimmer, M. (2007, October). “Search 2.0: Web 2.0, Personal Information Flows, and the Drive for the Perfect Search Engine.” Association of Internet Researchers Conference. Vancouver, Canada. [refereed abstract]

3.11.18 Zimmer, M. (2007, September). “Privacy and Quaero's Quest for the Perfect Search Engine: Threats and Opportunities.” Forum on Quaero: A Public Think Tank on the Politics of the Search Engine, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands. [invited speaker]

3.11.17 Zimmer, M. (2007, September). “Privacy, Contextual Integrity, and the Quest for the Perfect Search Engine.” Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [invited lecture]

3.11.16 Zimmer, M. (2007, July). “Values & Pragmatic Action: The Challenges of Engagement with Technical Design Communities.” International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry. San Diego, CA. [refereed abstract]

3.11.15 Zimmer, M. (2006, December). “Driving for the Perfect Search: Values, Technical Design, and the Flow of Personal Information in Spheres of Mobility.” Information Society Project Speaker Series, Yale Law School. New Haven, CT. [invited lecture]

3.11.14 Zimmer, M. (2006, November). “The Panoptic Gaze of Web Search Engines.” National Communication Association Annual Conference. San Antonio, TX. [refereed paper]

3.11.13 Zimmer, M. (2006, November). “Values & Pragmatic Action: The Challenges of Engagement with Technical Design Communities.” Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference. Vancouver, Canada. [refereed abstract]

3.11.12 Manders-Huits, N. & Zimmer, M. (2006, October). “Values & Pragmatic Action: The Challenges of Engagement with Technical Design Communities.” Philosophy Department Colloquium, Delft University of Technology, Delft. The Netherlands. [invited lecture]

3.11.11 Zimmer, M. (2006, October). “Values & Pragmatic Action: The Challenges of Engagement with Technical Design Communities.” Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of Twente. Enschede, The Netherlands. [invited lecture]

3.11.10 Zimmer, M. (2006, October). “Surveillance in Spheres of Mobility: Ethics, Values, and the Design of Networked Vehicle Information Systems.” Department


of Philosophy and the History of Technology, Royal Institute of Technology. Stockholm, Sweden. [invited lecture]

3.11.9 Zimmer, M. (2006, October). “The Panoptic Gaze of Web 2.0: How Web 2.0 Platforms act as Infrastructures of Dataveillance.” Seminar on Social Software and Web 2.0: Critical Perspectives and Challenges for Research and Business. Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. [invited lecture]

3.11.8 Zimmer, M. (2005, November). “Privacy on the Roads: How the Design of New Vehicle Safety Communication Technologies Impact Drivers’ Privacy in Public.” Contours of Privacy: Social, Psychological and Normative Perspectives. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. [refereed abstract]

3.11.7 Zimmer, M. (2005, October). “The Value Implications of the ‘Google Paradigm’ for Organizing, Distributing and Accessing Information.” Association of Internet Researchers Conference. Chicago, IL. [refereed abstract]

3.11.6 Zimmer, M. (2005, July). “Privacy and the Design of Vehicle Safety Communication Technologies.” Society for Philosophy and Technology Conference. Delft, The Netherlands. [refereed paper]

3.11.5 Zimmer, M. (2005, July). “Surveillance, Privacy and the Ethics of Vehicle Safety Communication Technologies.” International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry. Enschede, The Netherlands. [refereed paper]

3.11.4 Zimmer, M. (2005, June). “Media Ecology and Value Sensitive Design: A Combined Approach to Understanding the Biases of Media Technology.” Media Ecology Association Conference. New York, NY. [refereed paper]

3.11.3 Zimmer, M. (2005, April). “Privacy and the Design of Vehicle Safety Communication Technologies.” Science and Technology in Context: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference. Washington, DC. [refereed abstract]

3.11.2 Zimmer, M. (2004, November). “The Tensions of Securing Cyberspace.” National Communication Association Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. [refereed paper]

3.11.1 Zimmer, M. (2004, February). “The Ideology of Control in Interface Technologies.” MIT-RPI-Cornell STS Graduate Student Conference. Troy, NY. [refereed abstract]

3.12. Editorials, Reviews, and Interviews of One’s Research by Others

3.12.3 Quinn, M. (2013). An interview with Michael Zimmer. Ethics for the Information Age (5th ed.) (pp. 263-265). Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.

3.12.2 Parry, M. (2011, July 15). Harvard Researchers Accused of Breaching Students’ Privacy. Chronicle of Higher Education 57(40), A1-A10. Available at http://chronicle.com/article/Harvards-Privacy-Meltdown/128166/ [feature story based on research article 3.1.9]


3.12.1 Zimmer, M. (2008, April). The Faustian bargain with Web 2.0. [Audio podcast interview]. First Monday Podcast. Available at http://www.firstmondaypodcast.org/archive.htm

3.14. Reports of Completed Research

3.14.3 Values-in-Design Council Future Internet Architecture Meeting Reports: Fort Collins, CO (April 2012); Arlington, VA (October 2012); Salt Lake City, UT (March 2013). Public reports in support of National Science Foundation grant project “Values in Design in the Future Internet Architecture” [paid senior personnel]

3.14.2 “Date-Restricted Searches and Archived Copies of Web Documents related to Ketek and Myasthenia.” Private report to Jacquart & Lowe, S.C. [paid expert legal testimony]

3.14.1 “Framework for Best Practices to Protect Patron Privacy in Library 2.0 Applications and Services.” Private report to New York Public Library in support of IMLS-funded project “Homework NYC Widgets: A decentralized approach to homework help on the web” [paid consultant]

3.17. Research Proposals Under Review

3.18.4 “The Zuckerberg Files: Understanding Mark Zuckerberg’s Philosophy of Information.” UW-Milwaukee Faculty Research and Creative Activities Support (FRACAS) Award Program. Principle Investigator, $14,815.

3.18.3 “Best Practices for Protecting Privacy in Library 2.0.” Institute of Museum and Library Services. Principle Investigator, $288,277.

3.18.2 “Civility in the Digital Age.” Planning Grant for NEH America’s Historical & Cultural Organizations. Humanities Advisor. (Principle Investigator: Rita Hamlet, Howard County Library System, Columbia, MD)

3.18.1 “Reducing Urban Women’s HIV Sex Risk: Soap Opera Videos on Mobile Devices.” National Institute of Health. Research Ethics Advisor. (Principle Investigator: Rachel Jones, Northeastern University)

3.18. Research or Professional Awards

3.19.1 Finalist, World Technology Award for Ethics, World Technology Network, 2013

3.20. Other Significant Research, Scholarship, and Professional Activities

3.20.22 Paper Respondent: Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Washington, DC. (June 2014)

3.20.21 Organizer: Panel on “Values Interventions: Ethics scholarship in action.” iConference 2013, Fort Worth, TX. (February 2013)


3.20.20 Paper Respondent: “Research Development Paper Roundtable.” iConference 2013, Fort Worth, TX. (February 2013)

3.20.19 Invited Speaker: “Internet Research.” U.S. Department of Energy, Human Subjects Working Group Workshop. (December 2011)

3.20.18 Paper Respondent: Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Berkeley, CA. (June 2011)

3.20.17 Invited Participant: Innovation Outreach Program on Innovation & Privacy, Microsoft, New York, NY. (April 2011)

3.20.16 Invited Speaker: “WikiLeaks & Information Ethics.” Law Library Association of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI. (April 2011).

3.20.15 Invited Participant: Webinar on “Privacy ‘Hot Topics’ and Programs to Educate & Engage Library Users.” American Library Association, Office of Intellectual Freedom (March 2011)

3.20.14 Invited Participant: Workshop on “Privacy & Youth.” American Library Association, Office of Intellectual Freedom, Chicago, IL. (March 2011)

3.20.13 Invited Participant: Workshop on “Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of Personally Identifiable Information.” National Science Foundation / DARPA, Washington, DC. (February 2011)

3.20.12 Invited Speaker: “Wikileaks vs. Intellectual Freedom.” Brookfield Public Library, Brookfield, WI. (February 2011)

3.20.11 Organizer: Panel on “Innovations and Challenges in Teaching Information Ethics Across Contexts.” Association for Library and Information Science Education, San Diego, CA. (January 2011)

3.20.10 Organizer: Panel on “On the Philosophy of Facebook.” Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden. (October 2010)

3.20.9 Invited Participant: Workshop on “Ethics and Internet Research Commons: Building a Sustainable Future.” Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden. (October 2010)

3.20.8 Invited Participant: Workshops on “Facilitating Better and Faster IRB Approvals for DML Research.” Project of MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning initiative. Irvine, CA (May 2010) and Palo Alto, CA (August 2010)

3.20.7 Featured Participant: Webinar on “What do Newer Generation Faculty Want from IT Services?” EDUCAUSE Live. (July, 2010)

3.20.6 Paper Respondent: Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Center on Law and Information Policy. George Washington University, Washington, DC. (June 2010)


3.20.5 Organizer: Workshop on “Identifying Challenges and Opportunities for an African Information Ethics.” Access to Knowledge Conference, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT. (February 2010)

3.20.4 Paper Respondent: Faculty Workshop on “The Surprising Failure of Data Anonymization.” Center on Law and Information Policy, Fordham Law School, New York, NY. (January 2010)

3.20.3 Organizer: Panel on “On the Challenges of Implementing Library 2.0 Services.” 2009 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (November 2009)

3.20.2 Invited Participant: Public Interest Roundtable and Consultation. Google, Mountain View, CA. (February 2009)

3.20.1 Invited Participant: Data Confidentiality Workshop. National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA. (May 2007)

4. Teaching

4.1. Instruction in the Classroom

4.1.1 List of All Courses Taught

Fall 2008: L&I SCI 120: Information Technology Ethics3 credits, face-to-face, undergraduate, 9 students (LLC)

L&I SCI 490: Senior Capstone3 credits, face-to-face, undergraduate, 9 students

Spring 2009: L&I SCI 110: Introduction to Information Science3 credits, face-to-face, undergraduate, 33 students

L&I SCI 120: Information Technology Ethics3 credits, face-to-face, undergraduate, 27 students

L&I SCI 490: Senior Capstone3 credits, online, undergraduate, 17 students

Fall 2009: L&I SCI 110: Introduction to Information Science3 credits, face-to-face, undergraduate, 48 students



Fall 2010: L&I SCI 691: Special Topics: Search Engine Society3 credits, face-to-face, undergraduate/graduate, 28 students


L&I SCI 960: Doctoral Seminar in Information Policy3 credits, face-to-face, graduate, 7 students



Summer 2011: L&I SCI 691: Special Topics: Search Engine Society3 credits, online, undergraduate/graduate, 18 students

Fall 2011: L&I SCI 110: Introduction to Information Science3 credits, face-to-face, undergraduate, 31 students

L&I SCI 110: Introduction to Information Science3 credits, face-to-face, undergraduate, 49 students

L&I SCI 110: Introduction to Information Science3 credits, online, undergraduate, 42 students


Summer 2012: L&I SCI 691: Special Topics: Search Engine Society3 credits, online, undergraduate/graduate, 15 students

Fall 2012: INFOST 110: Introduction to Information Science & Technology3 credits, face-to-face, undergraduate, 24 students

INFOST 110: Introduction to Information Science & Technology3 credits, online, undergraduate, 35 students

INFOST 110: Introduction to Information Science & Technology3 credits, online, undergraduate, 25 students

Spring 2013: INFOST 120: Information Technology Ethics3 credits, face-to-face, undergraduate, 36 students

Summer 2013: INFOST 691: Special Topics: Search Engine Society3 credits, online, undergraduate/graduate, 13 students

Fall 2013: INFOST 120: Information Technology Ethics3 credits, face-to-face, undergraduate, 33 students

INFOST 120: Information Technology Ethics3 credits, online, undergraduate, 30 students


4.1.2 Student Supervision

Doctoral Dissertation Supervision:Marta Magnuson (Urban Education, co-chair, completed 2012)Anthony Hoffmann (Information Studies, co-chair, in progress)Liza Barry-Kessler (Information Studies, chair, in progress)Jeremy Mauger (Information Studies, chair, in progress)Nicholas Proferes (Information Studies, chair, in progress)Adriana McCleer (Information Studies, committee member, in progress)Katie Morrisey (English, committee member, in progress)

Doctoral Independent Readings/Research Supervision:2009: 12010: 12011: 7

Master’s Thesis Supervision:Anthony Hoffmann (MLIS, committee member, completed 2009)Matthew McCarthy (Sociology, committee member, completed 2012)

Graduate MLIS Fieldwork Supervision:2009: 12011: 22012: 12013: 1

Undergraduate BSIST Independent Readings/Research Supervision:2011: 12012: 1

Undergraduate BSIST Internship Supervision:2009: 12010: 12011: 32012: 4

Undergraduate Research Scholar Mentoring:2011: 1 (McNair Scholars program)2012: 1 (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows program)2013: 1 (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows program)

4.1.3 Teaching Awards

SOIS Teaching Award: Fall 2011Fall 2012Spring 2013

4.2. Program Development, Implementation, and Management


4.2.2 Organizing Colloquia, Institutes, Workshops, or Other Programs.

4.2.2.4 PhD Workshop with Dr. Annette Markham on Remixed Methods for Qualitative Research. Sponsored by Center for Information Policy Research, 6 students attending. (April 2013)

4.2.2.3 PhD Dissertation Proposal Workshop with Information Policy Faculty. Sponsored by Center for Information Policy Research, 6 students attending. (January 2013)

4.2.2.2 Doctoral Student Colloquium, Association of Internet Researchers annual conference. 34 students attending. (October 2011)

4.2.2.1 Doctoral Reading Group on “Information & Power”, Center for Information Policy Research (co-organized with Dr. Joyce Latham). 6 students attending. (Spring 2011)

4.3. Other Teaching Activities

4.3.4 Invited Lecturer, “PhD course on Internet Research and Ethics.” Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. (2014, March)

4.3.3 Invited Lecturer, Ethics 101 and Internet Research Ethics, “Responsible Conduct of Research Seminar Series.” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School. (recurring, 2011-2013)

4.3.2 Invited Faculty, “Research, the Cloud and the IRB.” Workshop at Advancing Ethical Research conference, Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R), Washington, DC. (2011, December)

4.3.1 Invited Lecturer, “Web 2.0 in the Library: Fundamentals, Applications, and Implications.” Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria. (November 2011, online)

5. Service

5.1. Membership or Leadership in Department, School, College, Division, University, or System Committees and/or Task Forces.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee:

5.1.11 Athletic Board (Chancellor’s designee), 2012 - 2013

5.1.10 School of Information Studies Dean Search & Screen, 2012 - 2013

5.1.9 Responsible Conduct of Research Advisory Board, 2012 - present

5.1.8 Digital Futures Grant Proposal Review Committee, 2011 - 2013


5.1.7 Digital Arts and Culture Certificate Program, Faculty Advisory Committee, 2011 - present

5.1.6 Center for 21st Century Studies, Faculty Advisory Committee, 2010 - present

5.1.5 Open Access and Scholarly Communication Task Force (Provost appointee), 2010 - present

5.1.4 Information Technology Policy Committee (Elected, faculty governance), 2010 - 2013

5.1.3 Email/Calendaring Evaluation Working Group (Provost task appointee), 2010 - 2011

5.1.2 Research Data Protection Policy Committee (ad hoc), 2009

5.1.1 PantherLink Subscription Center Steering Committee (ad hoc), 2009-2011

UW-M School of Information Studies:

5.2.7 MSIST Program Ad Hoc Committee, 2013 - 2013

5.2.6 Search & Screen Committee (IST faculty positions), 2012 - 2013

5.2.5 Diversity & Equity Committee, 2012 - 2013

5.2.4 Research Committee, 2011 - 2012

5.2.3 Search & Screen Committee (Information Policy faculty positions), 2010 - 2011

5.2.2 Academic Planning Committee, 2009 - 2010

5.2.1 Undergraduate Program Committee, 2008 - 2011

5.2. Major Responsibility for Coordination of Programs, Departments, or Centers

5.2.3 Director, Center for Information Policy Research, 2012 - present

5.2.2 Co-Director, Center for Information Policy Research, 2011 - 2012

5.2.1 Director, BS in Information Science & Technology Program, School of Information Studies, 2010-2011

5.3. Involvement in Student Activities

5.3.1 Faculty Advisor, SOIS Undergraduate Student Organization, 2008 - 2010


5.4. Service and or Membership and Office in Professional Organizations

5.4.2 Treasurer and Executive Committee Member, Association of Internet Researchers, 2009-present (elected to three 2-year terms by membership)

5.4.1 Ethics Committee Member, Association of Internet Researchers, 2009-present

5.5. Special Assignments for Professional Organizations

5.5.5 Privacy Subcommittee, Intellectual Freedom Roundtable, American Library Association. 2013 - present

5.5.4 Co-chair, organizing committee, Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry conference. Milwaukee, WI. (2011)

5.5.3 Organizer, SIG on Information Ethics, ALISE 2011 annual conferences. (2010, 2011)

5.5.2 Coordinator, SIG-III International Paper Contest, ASIS&T 2010 annual conference. (2010)

5.5.1 Co-chair, local organizing committee, Internet Research 10: International Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Milwaukee, WI. (October 2009)

5.6. Other Community, Regional, State, and National Service Activities

Research Grant Proposal Reviewer: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Institution of Museum and Library Services National Science Foundation Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Journal Editorial Board Membership: International Review of Information Ethics Internet Research

Journal Article Manuscript Reviewer: Aslib Proceedings Ethics and Information Technology First Monday Information Development The Information Society International Review of Information Ethics Internet Research Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Library Quarterly New Media & Society


Surveillance & Society

Academic Press Book Series Editor: “The Information Society” series, MIT Press (co-editor with Dr. Laura DeNardis)

Academic Press Book Manuscript Reviewer: MIT Press NYU Press Polity Sage

Academic Conference / Workshop Reviewer: Association of Internet Researchers annual conference (2009-2013) iConference (2013) CSCW conference workshop: “Measuring Networked Social Privacy” (2013) CSCW conference workshop: “Reconciling Privacy with Social Media Goals”

(2012) Ethics of Information Organization conference (2009, 2012) Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry conference (2009, 2011, 2013) CHI conference workshop: “Privacy for a Networked World: Bridging Theory

and Design” (2011) INTERACT conference workshop: “Values in Design - Building Bridges

between RE, HCI & Ethics” (2011) International Communication Association annual conference (2009)

Public Service and Advocacy: Advisory Board, Future of Privacy Forum (2010 – present) Member, Digital Privacy and Security Working Group, Center for Democracy

and Technology (2010 – present) Member, Digital Due Process Coalition (2010 – present)

michael zimmer curriculum vitae

Documents

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