SOIS PhD student, Jeremy Mauger, provides the following review of The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright, by Hector Postigo. The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright. Hector Postigo. Cambridge, MA: The MIT… Read More
Note: Liza Barry-Kessler’s presentation has been moved to a special SOIS Barriers to Access brown bag lunch on November 7. Details to follow. Two members of the SOIS community will be participating in the 13th annual Internet Research conference in Salford, UK… Read More
The Center for Information Policy Research welcomes Dr. Rina Ghose as the 2012-2013 Senior Research Fellow. Dr. Ghose is an associate professor in the UW-Milwaukee Department of Geography, with research interests in Critical GIS/GIS and Society, which aims to critically examine the intertwined relationships between GIS… Read More
Update: This talk has been moved to a larger room: 1st floor student lounge in NWQ-B. Details and RSVP link below. The Center for Information Policy research, in partnership with the Social Studies of Information Research Group, welcomes UW-Milwaukee Department of Geography professor Dr…. Read More
CIPR director Michael Zimmer will be a featured speaker at the first “International Symposium on Internet Ethics” hosted by the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) and Korea Society of Internet Ethics (KSIE), held in Seoul, South Korea, September 11-12, 2012. Alongside other international… Read More
CIPR faculty fellow Dr. Jean Preer (SLIS-Indiana) will be presenting her research “Prepare to be Challenged!” at the 2012 annual conference of the Wisconsin Library Association. While most public libraries now have some sort of process allowing challenges to works in their collection… Read More
The Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) is seeking a Senior Research Fellow for the 2012-2013 academic year. Established in 1998 within the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies (SOIS), CIPR is a multidisciplinary research center for the study… Read More
Under the dual leadership of SOIS faculty Joyce Latham and Michael Zimmer, the Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) had one of its most active academic years during 2011-2012. A key goal for CIPR this past year was to involve more faculty and… Read More
The UW-Milwaukee Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) is pleased to again offer a CIPR Student Award in Information Policy & Ethics, to sponsor one student (undergraduate, graduate or post-doc) for the Association of Internet Researchers IR 13 Conference in Salford, UK. The amount… Read More
Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Social Studies of Information School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is accepting applications for aPostdoctoral Fellowship in the Social Studies of Information for the 2012-2013 academic… Read More