In celebration of Choose Privacy Week, the American Library Association‘s Office for Intellectual Freedomhas released preliminary findings from a new survey on “Librarian Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Informational Privacy” that Michael Zimmer, Director of the Center for Information Policy Research, conduced on their behalf with generous support… Read More
SOIS PhD student Adriana McCleer recently won “best poster” at Student Research Day for her preliminary analysis of the following case study: The Dismantling of Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies Program: A Case Study and Critical Analysis The Mexican American Studies (MAS)… Read More
[This opinion piece is presented by SOIS PhD student, Jeremy Mauger] On April 10th, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington upheld a ruling that allows filtering software to deny adults the ability to access constitutionally protected… Read More
** Unfortunately this event has been canceled. We will announce a new date once it has been rescheduled. Apologies for any inconvenience. ** CIPR welcomes UW-Milwaukee Department of Geography professor Dr. Rina Ghose, who will discuss her research on the social and policy… Read More
Join the Center for Information Policy Research and the UWM Libraries for a special screening of the short documentary film “Big Brother, Big Business: The Data-Mining and Surveillance Industries” in celebration of Choose Privacy Week, an annual initiative of the American Library Association that invites… Read More
Please join the Center for Information Policy Research for a CIPR Brown Bag Research Lunch on Thursday, April 12, 2012 featuring SOIS PhD student Liza Barry-Kessler, who will present: “GrandFamily Housing with a Branch Library: A Case Study in Mixed-Use… Read More
CIPR Co-Director Joyce Latham will be presenting a keynote lecture at the UWM Libraries on Monday, March 19th, 11 am-12 pm, in W 190 (library instruction room B). Professor Latham will be speaking about open inquiry through creation, support and… Read More
CIPR is proud to be among the sponsors for “Out of the Attic and Into the Stacks“, an unconference on Feminism and Library & Information Studies, to be held March 9-11, 2012 at UW-Milwaukee. This unconference (details on what this… Read More
For Spring 2012, UW-Milwaukee’s Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) is pleased to make available travel funds for members of the UW-Milwaukee community engaging in research related to the mission of the Center. CIPR focuses on key information policy issues… Read More
Susan Crawford’s “The New Digital Divide,” published December 3, 2011 in the New York Times, is an important article that discusses crucial issues about uneven broadband access in the U.S. Crawford identifies a major challenge we face—bridging the broadband digital divide… Read More