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/

Statement by President Joe Biden on the Omicron COVID-⁠19 Variant; The White House, November 26, 2021

Biden pressed to support intellectual property waiver for COVID-19 vaccines; Marketplace, November 26, 2021

Nursing unions around world call for UN action on Covid vaccine patents; The Guardian, November 29, 2021

Frustrated by vaccine inequity, a South African lab rushes to replicate Moderna’s shot; The Washington Post, November 28, 2021

193 countries adopt first-ever global agreement on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence; UN News, November 25, 2021

Final Report: Commission on Information Disorder; Aspen Institute, November 2021

Opinion: America is sick with information disorder. Time for a cure.; The Washington Post, November 23, 2021

‘Maus’ Author Art Spiegelman: ‘We Are on the Brink of Fascism’; The Daily Beast, November 28, 2021

How to Ethically Respond to Negative Online Reviews; ABA Journal, August 23, 2021

Librarians help students navigate an age of misinformation – but schools are cutting their numbers; The Conversation, November 5, 2021

Ethics of news photos in a digital world; Northern Wyoming News, November 18, 2021

After COVID boom, ebook aggregators face licensing questions from Congress; The Verge, November 18, 2021

Artificial intelligence is getting better at writing, and universities should worry about plagiarism; The Conversation, November 4, 2021

After 25 years, Miami-Dade’s Ethics Commission remains a guardian of the public trust | Opinion; Miami Herald, November 19, 2021

Maryland lawmaker-doctor won’t face ethics violation for tuning into legislative meetings from the operating room; The Baltimore Sun, November 19, 2021

Spotsylvania School Board rescinds explicit book ban; The Free-Lance Star, November 16, 2021

AMA calls for privacy guidelines governing mail-order DNA tests; American Medical Association (AMA), November 16, 2021

Responsible AI Guidelines: Operationalizing DoD's Ethical Principles for AI; Defense Innovation Unit

The Department of Defense is issuing AI ethics guidelines for tech contractors; MIT Technology Review, November 16, 2021

NY ethics commission rescinds approval for Cuomo book deal; AP, November 16, 2021

Thinking Through the Ethics of New Tech…Before There’s a Problem; Harvard Business Review, November 9, 2021

The NIH and Moderna Are Fighting Over Who Owns Their Vaccine; Intelligencer, November 10, 2021

Why Culture And Ethics Are More Important Than Ever; Forbes, October 28, 2021

This Program Can Give AI a Sense of Ethics—Sometimes; Wired, October 28, 2021

Learning the Art of Civil Discourse; Ole Miss University of Mississippi News, October 22, 2021

Ethics By Design: Steps To Prepare For AI Rules Changes; Forbes, October 21, 2021

How Facebook neglected the rest of the world, fueling hate speech and violence in India; The Washington Post, October 24, 2021

EXPLAINER: Just what are ‘The Facebook Papers,’ anyway?; Associated Press, October 25, 2021

Copyright Law and Machine Learning for AI: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?; Co-Sponsored by the United States Copyright Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Tuesday, October 26, 2021 10 AM - 3 PM EDT

AI-ethics pioneer Margaret Mitchell on her five-year plan at open-source AI startup Hugging Face; Emerging Tech Brew, October 4, 2021

FACEBOOK EXEC: WE'RE NOT LIKE BIG TOBACCO BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE USE OUR PRODUCT; Vanity Fair, October 4, 2021

Facebook runs the coward’s playbook to smear the whistleblower; The Verge, October 5, 2021

Facebook whistleblower: The company knows it’s harming people and the buck stops with Zuckerberg; CNBC, October 5, 2021

Here are 4 key points from the Facebook whistleblower's testimony on Capitol Hill; NPR, October 5, 2021