[Jobs] information ethics fellow 1 feb

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

Information Ethics Fellow Program:

Call for Proposals, 2007-08


The Center for Information Policy Research at the School of  
Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is accepting  
proposals for its Information Ethics Fellows Program. The IEFP was  
established in 2006 to highlight prominent scholars and their  
contributions to the field of Information Ethics. The 2006-07 Fellows  
include Dr. Charles Ess, Distinguished Research Professor, Drury  
University, and Dr. Toni Samek, Associate Professor, University of  
Alberta.

This call is for a Junior Fellow, an individual who is in the early  
stages of their professional career in academia and interested in  
pursuing IE scholarship. For example, individuals completing doctoral  
dissertations on topics in information ethics, or new junior faculty,  
are eligible to apply. The Junior Fellow will benefit from  
collaboration with the CIPR Senior Fellows, as well as CIPR Faculty  
Associates.


The 2007-08 IEFP features Senior Fellows Dr. Rafael Capurro, Founder  
and Director of the International Center for Information Ethics, and  
Dr. Robert Hauptman, Editor, Journal of Information Ethics.  Dr.  
Capurro’s work will focus on cross-cultural issues in information  
ethics research, and Dr. Hauptman’s on authorial ethics.


The CIPR is particularly interested in international and  
intercultural issues in information ethics work, and specifically,  
ethical issues in online research. The field of online research  
ethics is an emerging cross-disciplinary field that identifies and  
examines how research is conducted in online environments and that  
seeks to recognize and resolve subsequent ethical dilemmas. The CIPR  
encourages applications that focus on ethics and models of human  
subjects protections; specific areas of online research such as  
privacy, informed consent, mass registration and surveillance,  
suspect communities, online research with minors, emerging  
technologies (blogs, social networking spaces); legal issues in  
online research; or other methodological issues in online research  
and writing.


The Fellow is expected to spend 4-5 days in residence at the CIPR,  
contributing to its colloquia series, guest lecturing in appropriate  
courses, and writing a paper for the CIPR Occasional Paper Series.  
The schedule will be determined at a mutually convenient time. The  
Fellow will participate in other online activities throughout the  
year. While in residence, the Fellow will have research time and  
access to the UWM Libraries, as well as the CIPR resources, which  
include an exhaustive library of articles and materials on Internet  
Research Ethics, the result of a project begun by the American  
Association for the Advancement of Science, and a repository of  
scholarly materials on various aspects of information policy.


The Fellow will receive a stipend of $2000 (US). The CIPR will pay  
travel (up to $1000) and accommodations while in Milwaukee.


The Center, directed by Elizabeth Buchanan since August 2006,  
facilitates information policy research through its lecture series,  
research paper series, and outreach activities, and its information  
ethics fellows program. With information infrastructures and  
technologies and the globalization of information evolving at a  
faster pace than our social, legal, and educational systems, it is  
imperative that information policy issues be examined systematically  
in an interdisciplinary environment.  The CIPR's research agenda  
revolves around social, ethical, economic, legal, ideological, and  
technical aspects of information and information technologies with a  
focus on such key information policy issues as intellectual property  
(copyright, patents, etc.), privacy, equity of access to information,  
ethics of information use and service, censorship, cyberlaw, and  
government, corporate, and international information policies.
Applicants should send a 1-2 page letter of interest, outlining his  
or her research interests, and intended area of study, a CV, and one  
letter of professional recommendation.


Applications are due by February 1, 2007, with notification by March  
15, 2007.


Address correspondence to Elizabeth Buchanan, Director, CIPR, UW- 
Milwaukee, School of Information Studies, cipr at sois.uwm.edu


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