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/

What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory; The Guardian, July 30, 2018

What Is QAnon: Explaining the Internet Conspiracy Theory That Showed Up at a Trump Rally; The New York Times, August 1, 2018

‘We are Q’: A deranged conspiracy cult leaps from the Internet to the crowd at Trump’s ‘MAGA’ tour; The Washington Post, August 1, 2018

The Shape of Mis- and Disinformation; Slate, July 26, 2018

China takes its political censorship global. Will America resist?; The Washington Post, July 26, 2018

Google 'working on censored search engine' for China; The Guardian, August 1, 2018

'Peanuts' First Black Character Franklin Turns 50; NPR, July 30, 2018

Honey Badger may not care, but the ‘creative genius’ who took him viral just won a big victory; The Washington Post, August 1, 2018

Big Data Is Getting Bigger. So Are the Privacy and Ethical Questions.; The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 31, 2018

Reporting ‘with neither fear nor favor’ earns ethics award for MPR, NPR reporters; Minneapolis Public Radio (MPR), July 30, 2018

Open data offer risks and rewards for conservation; Editorial, July 24, 2018

Tech president tightening ethics controls after money scandals; Atlanta Journal Constitution, July 27, 2018

The framers worried about corruption. Their words may now haunt the president.; The Washington Post, July 27, 2018

2018 National Trademark Exposition, July 27-28, 2018, Washington, D.C.

Gwyneth Paltrow didn't want Condé Nast to fact-check Goop articles; The Guardian, July 25, 2018

Why public libraries are still essential in 2018; Forbes, July 24, 2018

Artificial Intelligence Shows Why Atheism Is Unpopular; The Atlantic, July 23, 2018

My terrifying deep dive into one of Russia's largest hacking forums; The Guardian, July 24, 2018

Embracing the privacy-first mindset in the post-GDPR world; AdNovum Singapore via Enterprise Innovation, July 23, 2018

We Need Transparency in Algorithms, But Too Much Can Backfire; Harvard Business Review, July 23, 2018

Facebook's pledge to eliminate misinformation is itself fake news ; The Guardian, July 20, 2018

The Essay That Helped Bring Down the Soviet Union; The New York Times, July 20, 2018

Farting unicorn row: artist reaches settlement with Elon Musk; The Guardian, July 21, 2018

It’s impossible to lead a totally ethical life—but it’s fun to try; Quartz, July 15, 2018

Two men charged with stealing more than $8 million in rare books from Carnegie Library; The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 20, 2018

The intelligence community has never faced a problem quite like this; The Washington Post, July 19, 2018

Trump Wants Putin to Keep Meddling to Get Himself Reelected; The Daily Beast, July 19, 2018

Stop calling it ‘meddling.’ It’s actually information warfare.; The Washington Post, July 17, 2018

Shadow Politics: Meet the Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News; Wired, 7/18/18

“I Was Devastated”: Tim Berners-Lee, the Man Who Created the World Wide Web, Has Some Regrets; Vanity Fair, July 1, 2018

One Job AI Won't Replace? Chief Ethics Officer; Fortune, July 17, 2018

“A shameless lie”: Holes poked in Donald Trump’s assertion that he misspoke when praising Putin; Salon, July 17, 2018

This sad, embarrassing wreck of a man; The Washington Post, July 17, 2018

After a stunning news conference, there’s a newly crucial job for the American press; The Washington Post, July 16, 2018

We are a deeply stupid country; The Washington Post, July 16, 2018

Trump and Putin vs. America; The New York Times, July 16, 2018

UN Report Sets Forth Strong Recommendations for Companies to Protect Free Expression; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), June 27, 2018

OIF Responds to Library Bill of Rights Meeting Room Amendment; American Libraries, July 10, 2018

CIA Ethics Education: Background and Perspectives; Congressional Research Service, June 11, 2018

Is ‘Balanced Intellectual Property’ Code For ‘Anti-Intellectual Property’?; Above The Law, June 28, 2018

How Using A Drone Changed The Way This Photographer Saw Inequality; HuffPost, July 3, 2018

The U.S. government recruited black men to watch them die; The Washington Post, July 3, 2018

The legacy of Thomas Parran is more troubling than you thought; The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 8, 2018

FCC Refuses to Back Down From Plan to Strip Phone and Internet Subsidies for American Indians; Gizmodo, July 7, 2018

OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong; The Verge, April 16, 2018

Pruitt is gone. Congress still doesn’t care about ethics.; The Washington Post, July 6, 2018

Ethics Watchdog Releases One-Word Statement On Pruitt Resignation; HuffPost, July 5, 2018