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/

If Not Trump, What?; New York Times, 4/29/16

Online degrees could make universities redundant, historian warns; Guardian, 4/17/16

VW C.E.O. ‘Personally’ Apologized to President Obama in Plea for Mercy; New York Times, 4/28/16

Social Media, Where Sports Fans Congregate and Misogyny Runs Amok; New York Times, 4/28/16

UC-Davis chancellor placed on administrative leave after revelations of ‘scrubbing’ Internet; Washington Post, 4/28/16

How America's rich betrayed their fellow citizens; Guardian, 4/25/16

Boston College ordered by US court to hand over IRA tapes; Guardian, 4/25/16

Book Debate Raises Questions of Self-Censorship by Foreign Groups in China; New York Times, 4/27/16

Mitsubishi Motors Says False Mileage Tests Done Since 1991; Associated Press via New York Times, 4/26/16

VW Presentation in ’06 Showed How to Foil Emissions Tests; New York Times, 4/26/16

It’s OK to End Friendships Over Trump; Slate, 4/26/16

Revenge porn: the industry profiting from online abuse; Guardian, 4/26/16

Post-Gazette loses court fight to block state agencies from deleting emails; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4/26/16

Why You Probably Shouldn't Say 'Eskimo'; NPR, 4/24/16

Captain America: Civil War viral video debates the 'Avengers impact', Entertainment Weekly, 4/23/16

Cassandra Clare Created a Fantasy Realm and Aims to Maintain Her Rule; New York Times, 4/23/16

Turkey’s Crackdown on Critics of Erdogan Snares Dutch Journalist; New York Times, 4/24/16

Timbuktu's 'Badass Librarians': Checking Out Books Under Al-Qaida's Nose; NPR, All Things Considered, 4/23/16

Europe’s Web Privacy Rules: Bad for Google, Bad for Everyone; New York Times, 4/25/16

Is Open Access To Research Biden's Answer To Curing Cancer?; Forbes, 4/22/16

Pennsylvania Announces Open Data Portal; Government Technology, 4/18/16

Gov. Wolf signs open data executive order; Technical.ly, 4/18/16

USPTO appeals to Supreme Court for ruling on racially tinged trademarks; Ars Technica, 4/22/16

A Tale of Two Chickens; Sustainable Food Trust, 4/22/16

The ‘deep and disturbing decline’ in global press freedom; Washington Post, 4/20/16

Google Case Ends, but Copyright Fight Goes On; Publishers Weekly, 4/22/16

How Officials Distorted Flint’s Water Testing; New York Times, 4/21/16

ESPN Finally Grows Tired of Curt Schilling’s Barbed Language; New York Times, 4/21/16

PNC pulls plug on coin-counting machines; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4/22/16

How to Explain Mansplaining; New York Times, 4/20/16

Bystander Revolution: Take The Power Out Of Bullying

How do we make the Guardian a better place for conversation?; Guardian, 4/22/16

Monica Lewinsky: ‘The shame sticks to you like tar’; Guardian, 4/22/16

Captain America: Civil War – conflicted heroes and a clash of philosophies; Guardian, 4/21/16

How to Be Good: Why you can’t teach human values to artificial intelligence; Slate, 4/20/16

Mitsubishi Motors Admits Falsifying Fuel Economy Tests To Make Emissions Levels Look More Favorable; Reuters via Huffington Post, 4/20/16

The Courage To Inform: Our mission requires brave librarians; Library Journal, 4/18/16

Have Comment Sections on News Media Websites Failed?; New York Times, 4/18/16

We will look back at cyber-harassment as a disgrace – if we act now; Guardian, 4/15/16

The terror of swatting: how the law is tracking down high-tech prank callers; Guardian, 4/15/16

UC Davis Tries to Scrub Pepper-Spray Incident From Web, Which Means It’s Now the First Result on Google; New York Magazine, 4/15/16

Hardly Anyone Trusts The Media Anymore; Huffington Post, 4/18/16

Obama’s Secrecy Problem; Slate, 4/15/16

Doonesbury; GoComics.com, 4/17/16

Oxford professor calls for European ethical codes on patient data; Guardian, 4/12/16

Panama Papers: inside the Guardian's investigation into offshore secrets; Guardian, 4/16/16

Captain America: Civil War reaction: 7 non-spoilery thoughts; Entertainment Weekly, 4/15/16

Tweaking Genes to Save Species; New York Times, 4/16/16

The Right to Privacy for Children Online; New York Times, 4/15/16

Cirque Du Soleil Scraps Shows In Protest Over North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Law; Huffington Post, 4/15/16