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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
SERVICE AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS: 2000 - present