Ethics, Info, Tech: Contested Voices, Values, Spaces

The Ebook version of my Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published on December 11, 2025 and the Hardback, Cloth, and Paperback versions will be available on January 8, 2026. Preorders are available via Amazon and this Bloomsbury webpage: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ethics-information-and-technology-9781440856662/

Web Trolls Winning as Incivility Increases; New York Times, 8/14/14

Senator Quits Montana Race After Charge of Plagiarism; New York Times, 8/7/14

Should Germans Read ‘Mein Kampf’?; New York Times, 7/7/14

Big Data Comes To College; NPR, 7/4/14

Privacy Group Complains to F.T.C. About Facebook Emotion Study; New York Times, 7/3/14

Did Facebook's experiment violate ethics?; CNN, 7/2/14

Facebook’s Secret Manipulation of User Emotions Faces European Inquiries; New York Times, 7/2/14

Why I Left 60 Minutes: The big networks say they care about uncovering the truth. That’s not what I saw; Politico, 6/29/14

Online, the Lying Is Easy: In ‘Virtual Unreality,’ Charles Seife Unfriends Gullibility; New York Times, 7/1/14

On the Next Docket: How the First Amendment Applies to Social Media; New York Times, 6/30/14

Here Are All the Other Experiments Facebook Plans to Run on You: An exclusive preview; Slate, 6/30/14

Facebook experiment may have broken UK law; Aljazeera, 7/2/14

Facebook’s experiment is just the latest to manipulate you in the name of research; Pew Research Center, 7/2/14

Should Facebook Manipulate Users?: Jaron Lanier on Lack of Transparency in Facebook Study; New York Times, 6/30/14

Facebook Study Sparks Soul-Searching and Ethical Questions: Incident Shines Light on How Companies, Researchers Tap Data Created Online; Wall Street Journal, 6/30/14

Facebook Added 'Research' To User Agreement 4 Months After Emotion Manipulation Study; Forbes, 6/30/14

Major Ruling Shields Privacy of Cellphones: Supreme Court Says Phones Can’t Be Searched Without a Warrant; New York Times, 6/25/14

Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’ Blocked in China; New York Times, 6/27/14

Stem-cell advances may quell ethics debate; (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal via USA Today, 6/22/14

Unblinking Eyes Track Employees: Workplace Surveillance Sees Good and Bad; New York Times, 6/21/14

‘Klinghoffer’ Composer Responds to Met’s Decision; New York Times, 6/18/14

Colleges and Evangelicals Collide on Bias Policy; New York Times, 6/9/14

Kennedy letters fiercely protected for decades; Boston Globe, 6/10/14

Why freelancers need a code of ethics; Forbes, 5/30/14

In Season of Protest, Haverford Speaker Is Latest to Bow Out; New York Times, 5/13/14

Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding; New York Times, 5/10/14

Warning: The Literary Canon Could Make Students Squirm; New York Times, 5/17/14

U.S. Attorney Subpoenas Records of Ethics Panel; New York Times, 4/30/14

The real tragedy of Donald Sterling's racism: it took this long for us to notice: The LA Clippers owner made his millions off racist housing policies. Where was the NBA and presidential outrage then?; Guardian, 4/28/14

Open data: slow down Whitehall's approach has the subtlety of a smash-and-grab-raider and it must take its own advice on best practice; Guardian, 4/18/14

A Disturbing Tape and a Potential Moral Quandary: Comments Linked to Sterling Put Clippers Players in Ethical Bind, 4/26/14

DuckDuckGo: the plucky upstart taking on Google with secure searches; Guardian, 4/4/14

Sweeping Away a Search History; New York Times, 4/2/14

Ex-Ethics Chief in Ga. Wins Retaliation Lawsuit; Associated Press via ABC News, 4/4/14

The Price of a Slur; New York Times, 4/2/14

G.M. Secrecy on Crashes Adds to Families’ Pain; New York Times, 4/2/14

Ethics report could help NASA weigh risks of long-term space travel; Los Angeles Times, 4/2/14

Optic Nerve: millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ; Guardian, 2/27/14

Big Data Means Big Questions on How That Information Is Used; New York Times, 3/3/14

Pitt faces animal rights scrutiny; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 3/2/14

F.D.A. Weighs Fertility Method That Raises Ethical Questions; New York Times, 2/25/14

At Newark Airport, the Lights Are On, and They’re Watching You; New York Times, 2/17/14

A Chilling Phone Call Adds to Hurdles of Publishing Xi Jinping Book; New York Times, 2/19/14

An Education in Ethics; HuffingtonPost.com, 2/25/14

Concern Grows Over Academic Freedom in Egypt; Chronicle of Higher Education via New York Times, 2/23/14

Edward Snowden leaks spur new privacy industry; Financial Times, 2/21/14

Booksellers bare all to protest censorship attempt of ‘Everybody Gets Naked’ children’s book; New York Daily News, 2/20/14

Some Bot to Watch Over Me; New York Times, 2/19/14

Microsoft denies global censorship of China-related searches; Reuters, 2/12/14

Bing censoring Chinese language search results for users in the US; Guardian, 2/11/14