Philosopher Helen Nissenbaum is one of the leading thinkers about the ethical issues we face in digital spaces. Her work on privacy as “contextual integrity”… Read More »Helen Nissenbaum on Ad Nauseum, resistance through obfuscation, and weapons of the weak
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I spoke this morning at the tenth incarnation of BIF, Business Innovation Factory, an annual conference in Providence, RI that focuses on storytelling. It’s got… Read More »A public apology – on screwing up by not questioning assumptions – my talk at #BIF10
Michael Brown was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson on Saturday August 9, 2014. After his body lay in the hot street for four… Read More »Self-segregation on social networks and the implications for the Ferguson, MO story
The Atlantic was kind enough to run a lightly edited version of this post. I’m posting here after their publication so that this remains in… Read More »When Being Happy is Political
This January, a few hundred employees of Alibaba, the massive online retailer and digital payments company, participated in an interesting experiment. Like many Chinese, they… Read More »Water monitoring in China, and the changing role of citizenship