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HELEN NISSENBAUM
Department of Media, Culture & Communication
New York University, 239 Greene Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10003 (212) 998-5251
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum
POSITIONS
New York University 2007 - Present
Professor, Department of Media, Culture & Communication and Computer Science
Faculty Fellow, Information Law Institute. NYU Law School
New York University 2001 - 2007
Associate Professor, Department of Media, Culture & Communication and Computer Science
Faculty Fellow, Information Law Institute. NYU Law School
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 2000-2001
Member, School of Social Science
Princeton University 1991-2001
1998-2001 Research Associate. University Center for Human Values
1991-1998 Associate Director. University Center for Human Values and the Program in Ethics & Public Affairs
1991-2001: Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs and Computer Science Department. Coordinator, Program in Science, Technology and Ethics
Stanford University
1985-1991: Assistant Director. Symbolic Systems Program
1983-1985: Postdoctoral Research Affiliate. Center for the Study of Language & Information
EDUCATION
- Ph.D Philosophy (1983) Stanford University, Stanford CA
- M.A. Social Sciences in Education (1978) Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- B.A. Mathematics and Philosophy (1975) University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
- B.A. Honors in Philosophy, First Class (1976) University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
- Philosophy and politics of technology: ethical, social and political implications of information and communications technology (privacy, security, accountability, intellectual property rights, electronic publication, computing in education);
- Information and communications policy;
- Applied and professional ethics (engineering ethics, scientific integrity and research ethics)
GRANTS
Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation. Science of Design Collaborative Research: Values-at-Play - Integrating Social Factors into Design CNS 0613893, September 2006. $537,243 (Total grant: $790,757)
Principal Investigator. United States Department of Homeland Security. The Politics of Facial Recognition Systems. $60,073
Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation. Collaborative Research: A Workshop on Values in the Design of Information Technology SES-0352632, June 2004: ($32,291)
Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation. Collaborative Research: ITR-0331542: Sensitive Information in a Wired World. September 2003: $406,000 (Total grant: $12.5 million). [Press Release]
Project Director: Ford Foundation Grant. Values in Technology Design: Democracy, Autonomy, and Justice. May 2003: $100,000
Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation, Grant SBR-0135590. Research Agenda Workshop on Internet Research Ethics, December 14-15, 2001, Lancaster University. $20,529
Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation, Grant SBR-9806234. Societal Values in an Age of Information Technology. $75,000
Co-Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation, Grant SBR-9729447. Network Security Responsive to Human Values: Theory and Practice (Co-Investigators: E. Felten, Princeton University and B. Friedman, Colby College) $463,257
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES
M. Flanagan and H. Nissenbaum. "A Game Design Methodology to Incorporate Activist Themes," Proceedings of the CHI 2007 conference, April 28 - May 3, San Jose, California.
M. Flanagan, D. Howe, and H. Nissenbaum, "Design Methods Outline for Activist Gaming." In Worlds in Play, S. de Castell and J. Jensen (eds.) Peter Lang
M. Flanagan and H. Nissenbaum, "Design Heuristics for Activist Games." In Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Computer Games, Y.B. Kafia, J. Denner, C. Heeter, and J. Sun (eds.) Cambridge: MIT Press
M. Flanagan, D. Howe, and H. Nissenbaum, "Values in Design: Theory and Practice" (pdf) In Information Technology and Moral Philosophy Jeroen van den Hoven and John Weckert (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
Y. Benkler and H. Nissenbaum, "Commons-Based Peer Production and Virtue" (pdf) Journal of Political Philosophy 14 (4), 2006: 394-419.
A. Barth, A. Datta, J. Mitchell, and H. Nissenbaum, "Privacy and Contextual Integrity: Framework and Applications," (pdf) Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2006
H. Nissenbaum, "Where Computer Security Meets National Security," (pdf) Ethics and Information Technology, Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2005, 61-73 (Also, In Cybercrime, Eds Jack Balkin, James Grimmelmann, Eddan Katz, Nimrod Kozlovski, Shlomit Wagman and Tal Zarsky, New York, NYU Press)
M. Flanagan, D. Howe, and H. Nissenbaum. "New Design Methods for Activist Gaming," (pdf) Proceedings from DiGRA 2005, 16-20 June, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
M. Flanagan, D. Howe and H. Nissenbaum, "Values at Play: Design Tradeoffs in Socially-Oriented Game Design" (pdf) Proceedings of CHI 2005, 751-760
H. Nissenbaum, "Values in Technical Design," (pdf) Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics New York: Macmillian, 2005, Ixvi-Ixx
H. Nissenbaum, "Information Technology and Ethics" (pdf) Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, Great Barrington, MA, Berkshire Publishing Group, 2004, 235-239
H. Nissenbaum, "Will Security Enhance Trust Online, or Supplant It?" (pdf) In R. Kramer and K. Cook (eds.) Trust and Distrust Within Organizations: Emerging Perspectives, Enduring Questions, Russell Sage Publications (2004): 155-188.
H. Nissenbaum, Hackers and the Contested Ontology of Cyberspace," (pdf) New Media and Society, Vol 6(2): 195-217.
H. Nissenbaum, "Privacy as Contextual Integrity," (pdf) Washington Law Review Vol 79, No. 1, February 2004: 119-158
H. Nissenbaum, "New Research Norms for a New Medium," (pdf) In The Commodification of Information. N. Elkin-Koren and N. Netanel (editors) The Hague: Kluwer Academic Press, 2002. 433-457.
H. Nissenbaum, "Hackers and the Battle for Cyberspace" Dissent, Fall 2002, 50-57
H. Nissenbaum, "Securing Trust Online: Wisdom or Oxymoron" (pdf) Boston University Law Review June 2001 Volume 81, No.3 635-664 (Reprinted in B. Kolko (ed.) Virtual Publics: Policy and Community in an Electronic Age. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983)
L.J. Camp, C. McGrath, H. Nissenbaum, "Trust: A Collision of Paradigms" (pdf) Financial Cryptography 2001: Conference Proceedings, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
H. Nissenbaum, "How Computer Systems Embody Values" (pdf) IEEE Computer, Mar. 2001, 120, 118-119
L. Introna and H. Nissenbaum, "Shaping the Web: Why the Politics of Search Engines Matters" (pdf) The Information Society, 16(3):1-17, 2000
L. Introna and H. Nissenbaum, "Defining the Web: The Politics of Search Engines" IEEE Computer, January 2000. 54-62
H. Nissenbaum, "Can Trust be Secured Online? A Theoretical Perspective" Etica e Politica No. 2, December 1999
H. Nissenbaum, "The Puzzle of Priority: New Conventions in Research for the Context of Electronic Publication," The Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics Vol 1, No. 1, July 1999: 44-68
H. Nissenbaum, "The Meaning of Anonymity in an Information Age" The Information Society 15:141-144, 1999 (Reprinted in Readings in CyberEthics (2001) R.A. Spinello and H.T. Tavani (eds.) Sudbury: Jones and Bartlett)
L. Introna and H. Nissenbaum, Sustaining the Public Good Vision of the Internet: The Politics of Search Engines, Center for the Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Working Paper #9, 1999, Princeton University
H. Nissenbaum and D. Walker, "A Grounded Approach to Social and Ethical Concerns about Technology and Education," Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol 19, No. 4, 1998: 411-432
H. Nissenbaum, "Protecting Privacy in an Information Age: The Problem of Privacy in Public," (pdf) Law and Philosophy, 17: 559-596, 1998
H. Nissenbaum and D. Walker, "Will Computers Dehumanize Education? A Grounded Approach to Values at Risk" Technology in Society, 20 (1998) 237-273
H. Nissenbaum, "Values in the Design of Computer Systems" (1998) Computers in Society, 38-39, March 1998
H. Nissenbaum, "Values in Computer System Design: Bias and Autonomy" Ethics and Information Technology, Delhi: New Academic Press, 1998
H. Nissenbaum, "Toward an Approach to Privacy in Public: The Challenges of Information Technology" (pdf) (1997) Ethics and Behavior, 7(3), 207-219 (Reprinted in Readings in CyberEthics (2001) R.A. Spinello and H.T. Tavani (eds.) Sudbury: Jones and Bartlett)
C. Mitcham and H. Nissenbaum, "Ethics and Technology," (1998) Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, London and New York: Routledge
H. Nissenbaum, "Information Technology Ethics" (1998) Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, London and New York: Routledge
B. Friedman and H. Nissenbaum, "Bias in Computer Systems" (pdf) ACM Transactions on Information Systems July 1996. 330-347
H. Nissenbaum, "Accountability in a Computerized Society" (pdf) in Science and Engineering Ethics (1996) 2, 25-42
H. Nissenbaum, "Should I Copy My Neighbor's Software?" in Computers, Ethics, and Social Responsibility, D. Johnson and H. Nissenbaum (eds.) Prentice Hall, 1995. 201-213. (Reprinted in Business Ethics for the 21st Century (1997) D.M. Adams and E.W. Maine (eds.) Mountain View: Mayfield Publishing Company.) (Reprinted in Computers and Ethics in the Cyberage (2001) D. M. Hester and P.J. Ford (eds.) Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall) (Reprinted in Ethics for Everyday (2001) David Benatar (Ed.) New York: McGraw-Hall)
B. Friedman and H. Nissenbaum, "Software Agents and User Autonomy" Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents. Feb., 1997 New York: ACM
B. Friedman and H. Nissenbaum, Bias in Computer Systems, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Technical Report No. CSLI-94-186, 1994, Stanford
B. Friedman and H. Nissenbaum, "Discerning Bias in Computer Systems" in S. Ashlund, K. Mullet, A. Henderson, E. Hollnagel, & T. White (Eds.), InterCHI '93 Adjunct Proceedings Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp141-142
H. Nissenbaum, "Casual Copying," Proceedings of the National Conference on Computing and Values, 15-22, August 1991
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
H. Nissenbaum, Privacy and Contextual Integrity (Manuscript in preparation. Under contract with Stanford University Press)
M. Price and H. Nissenbaum (eds.), Academy and The Internet (New York, Peter Lang Publishing Company, 2004)
D. Johnson and H. Nissenbaum (Eds.), Computers, Ethics, and Social Values,(Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1995)
H. Nissenbaum, Emotion and Focus (University of Chicago Press, 1985)
EDITORIAL BOARDS
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Invited Participant, Symposium on E-Learning: New National and International Policy Perspectives, Boulder, CO, February 2006
National Academy of Sciences, NRC Committee on Privacy and the Information Age (5/02-present)
Board of Advisors, Public Knowledge
Board of Trustees, e-thepeople. Appointed 2004
Advisory Panel, Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology, National Science Foundation. 1999 - 2002
National Academy of Sciences, Committee, On Being a Researcher/Scholar in the Digital Age
Member, Sub-Commission on the Ethics of the Information Society, UNESCO_World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST)
Member, ACM Committee on Licensing of Software Engineers
Research Fellow, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Oxford University
Advisory Committee. AAAS, Project on Anonymity on the Internet. 1997
Site Visit Evaluation Team, New Haven Connecticut. National Science Foundation, Ethics and Values Studies Program
Invited participant, National Science Foundation Workshop on Human Information Processing and Decision Making in Complex Information Systems, Washington DC. April 2001
Invited participant, National Science Foundation Workshop on Science, Technology and Democracy. July 1994, Washington DC
Invited participant, National Science Foundation Workshop on Human Dimensions of Knowledge Networking: Access, Usability, Impact. July, 1997. Santa Barbara
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
- Selection Committee, SSRC Digital Cultures and Information Project, 2004
- Workshop Co-Director (with Monroe Price), Public Values, System Design and the Public Domain, March 3-7, 2003. Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center Bellagio, Italy
- Workshop Director, 2002. Cross-disciplinary Workshop on Public Design, Information Law Institute, New York University School of Law
- Program Committee, International Conference on Computer Ethics: A Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE'01), University of Lancaster, December 2001
- Advisory Board. Public Knowledge
- Advisory Board. Ethics Center in Science and Engineering on the World Wide Web
- Executive Board. Society for Philosophy and Technology. 1996 - present
- Member, APA Committee on Philosophy and Computing
- Program Committee, ACM Computing Policy Conference. Washington DC, May 1998
- Program Committee, International Conference on Computer Ethics: A Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE'98), London School of Economics December 1998
- Conference Organizer, 1998. Design for Values: Ethical, Societal & Policy Dimensions for Information Technology, DIMACS National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center
SERVICE AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
- Director, Colloquium on Information Technology and Society, Information Law Institute of the NYU School of Law, 2000-07
- Departmental Search Committee, 2005-06
- Steinhardt Technology Steering Committee, 2004-06
- Steinhardt Dean’s Advisory Committee for Associate Dean Search, 2004-05
- Humanities Council Steering Committee, 2005-08
- University Task Force on Culture and Communication, 2003-04
- Service Award, Steinhardt School of Education, 2002-03
- Chair, Departmental Search Committee, 2002-03
- Chair, Study Committee for Departmental Policy and Priorities, 2003-04
- Ph.D. Advising and Miscellaneous Departmental Committees
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS: 2000 - present
- "Contextual Integrity in Ubicomp Design" Annual Meeting of the AAAS, St. Louis, Feb. 2006
- "Contextual Integrity: A Conservative Approach to Privacy" Yale University Technology and Ethics Working Group Speaker Series, November 17, 2005
- "Plagiarism, Self-plagiarism, and Norms of Scientific Research,", Conference on Plagiarism across the Science Disciplines, NYU Medical Center, October 1 2005
- "New Design Methods for Activist Gaming" (with M. Flanagan & D. Howe), International Conference of the Digital Games Research Association, Vancouver, June 16-20, 2005
- "A Cultural approach to Privacy: Meeting the Challenges of Information Technology" Colloquium, Program in Science, Technology and Society, Drexel University, May 4, 2005.
- "Values at Play" Command Lines: Conference on the Emergence of Governance in Global Cyberspace, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 29-30, 2005
- "Privacy as Contextual Integrity" Symposium on Law and Information Society, Fordham University Law School, April 7-8, 2005
- "Values at Play: Design Tradeoffs in Socially-Oriented Game Design" (with Mary Flanagan and Daniel Howe) CHI 2005, Oregon. April 7, 2005
- "Privacy in Context" Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University, Canberra Australia. March 15, 2005
- "Anonymity and Contextual Integrity" "The Concealed: I Anonymity, Identity and the Prospect of Privacy", University of Ottawa, March 4-5, 2005
- "Contextual Integrity: Privacy as a Cultural Value", Glasscock Humanities Center, Texas A&M University, February 15, 2005
- "Securing the Internet as Public Space: Project Planning Meeting", American Academy of Arts and Sciences, December 8, 2004
- "Values as a Design Criterion: Challenges and Commitments" Workshop on New Directions in Understanding Ethics and Technology, University of Virginia, October 27-30, 2004
- "Privacy as Contextual Integrity" Seminar of the Computer Laboratory Security Group, University of Cambridge, U.K. July 9, 2004
- "Social and Ethical Implications of Computing" NYC Microsoft Research Lecture Series, May 19, 2004
- "Privacy as Contextual Integrity" Sapienta Colloquium, Philosophy Department, Dartmouth College, May 7, 2004
- "When Computer Security Meets National Security: Two Conceptions of Security Online" Conference on Computer Crime and Security, Yale Law School March 26-27, 2004
- "Privacy as Contextual Integrity" Conference on Privacy-Preserving Data-Mining, DIMACS, Rutgers University, March 15-17, 2004
- "Privacy as Contextual Integrity" Rock Ethics Lectures, Pennsylvania State University February 4, 2004
- "Ethical and Cultural Foundations of Privacy" Conference on Technology, Values, and the Justice System, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle. January 16-17, 2004
- "Privacy and Contextual Integrity" Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. Washington DC, December 2003
- "Two Conceptions of Security Online" presented at the Symposium on "The Dis/Simulations of War and Peace," June 2003, Watson Institute, Brown University
- "The Virtue of Commons-Based Peer Production" (with Yochai Benkler) presented at the Conference on Computer Ethics - Philosophical Enquiry, June 2003, Boston College
- "Big Brother Technologies" Choices and Challenges, Virginia Tech Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, March 27, 2003
- "Two Conceptions of Trust Online" Conference on Trust and Honesty, Budapest Collegium, December 2002
- "Private v. Public: A Red Herring for Privacy" Presentation to the New Jersey State Bar Association Judicial Administration Forum on Privacy vs. Public Access: Court Records and Proceedings, September 2002
- "Privacy Online and Contextual Integrity" Conference on The Future of Internet Regulation, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University, May 2002
- "Privacy and Contextual Integrity: Where Philosophy Meets the Social Sciences" Summer Institute, SSRC Program on Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security, Columbia University, June 2002
- "National Security and Personal Security: Competing Philosophical Conceptions of Network Security" Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry 2001, University of Lancaster. December 2001
- "The Ethics of P2P" Panel Presentation. The O_Reilly Peer-to-Peer & Web Services Conference, Washington DC. November 2001
- "Competing Conceptions of Computer Security" Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. Alexandria, Virginia. November 2001
- "Hackers and Other Contested Entities of Cyberspace" University Lecture Series, Carnegie-Mellon University. April 2001.
- "Privacy and Contextual Integrity" School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study. March 2001 (Also presented at Friends of the Institute Forum, April 2001)
- "Privacy in Public and Contextual Integrity" Workshop Series, Committee on Philosophy, Politics and Public Affairs and the Center for Information Policy, University of Maryland. February 2001
- "Privacy and Technologies of Information" Joint Colloquium, Department of Philosophy and Information School, University of Washington, Seattle. January 2001
- "Privacy and Technologies of Information" Joint Colloquium, Department of Computer Science and Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia. January 2001
- "Can Trust be Secured Online?" Colloquium, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University. December 2000
- "The Politics of Search Engines" Colloquium, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT. November 2000
- "Securing Trust" Conference on Trust Relationships. Boston University School of Law. September 2000
- "Securing Trust: Wisdom or Oxymoron?" Keynote Address. Internet Research 1.0: The State of the Interdiscipline, First meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers. September 2000
- Invited Participant. Value Sensitive Design Workshop. University of Washington, Seattle. September 2000
- "Can Trust be Secured Online?" Keynote Address. Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry. Dartmouth College. July 2000
- "Hackers and Other Contested Entities of Cyberspace" Conference on Social Ontology. Erasmus University Rotterdam. July 2000
- "Securing Trust Online: Wisdom or Oxymoron?" Conference on A Free Information Ecology in the Digital Environment. New York University School of Law. April 2000
- "The Politics of Search Engines" Innovation Policy Colloquium, New York University, School of Law. February 2000
- Invited Panelist. Interdisciplinary Conference on the Impact of Technological Change on the Creation, Dissemination, and Protection of Intellectual Property. The Ohio State University College of Law. February 2000
Ph.D. Dissertations
Gaia Bernstein, NYU Law School, Dissertation Committee 2005
Azi Lev-On, NYU Politics Department, Dissertation Committee 2005
Bilge Yesil, NYU Department of Media, Culture & Communication, Dissertation Committee 2005
Michael Zimmer, NYU Department of Media, Culture & Communication, Dissertation Chair
Joseph Reagle, NYU Department of Media, Culture & Communication, Dissertation Chair
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