Curriculum Vitae

Charles M. Ess


Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies

Professor, Philosophy and Religion

Drury University

900 N. Benton Ave. Home: 646 S. Weller

Springfield, MO 65802 Springfield, MO 65802

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Email: cmess@drury.edu Homepage: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html


Education:

Ph.D.-1983: Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University

M.A.- 1975: Philosophy (minor in Greek), Penn State

B.A.- 1973: Philosophy and German, Texas Christian University (graduated with university honors, philosophy departmental honors, Phi Beta Kappa)


Dissertation: Analogy in the Critical Works: Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy as Analectical Thought (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1983.)


Academic Positions:

2009-2012: Professor with specific responsibilities (med særlige opgaver), Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.

2007: Visiting [Full] Professor, Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. (fall semester).

Professeur Invité (guest professor), Institute Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres (IUFM) (a unit of le laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en didactique education et formation [LIRDEF]), Centre Universitaire Vauban, Nîmes, France. June.

2006-2007 Information Ethics Fellow, the Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

2005-2008: Professor II, in affiliation with the Programme for Applied Ethics, Globalization Program, Norwegian Science and Technical University (NTNU).

2005-2006: Erasmus Mundus Scholar, Masters Course in Applied Ethics (NTNU, Linköping University, Sweden, and Utrecht University, The Netherlands – funded by the European Commission.

2005-2008: Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, American Association for the Advancement of Science (Chair, 2007-2008)

2005-2007: Vice-President, Association for Internet Researchers (AoIR) (President, 2007-2009).

2004: Fulbright Senior Scholar, Universität Trier (Departments of Chinese [Sinologie] and Media Studies [Medienwissenschaft]), Sept. 16-Dec. 15

2004-present: Editorial Board, INSEIT Journal (International Society for Ethics and Information Technology).

2004-present: Editorial Board, International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction

2004-present: Editorial Board, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

2003: Visiting [Full] Professor, Department of Digital Aesthetics & Communication, IT-University, Copenhagen (sabbatical leave, fall)

2003-present: Editorial Board, new media and society (Sage)

2003-2009: Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Drury University

2002-present: Research Associate, Information Ethics Group, Oxford Computing Laboratory

2002-2005: Academic Advisory Panel, Pew Internet and American Life Project

2002-2005: Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, American Association for the Advancement of Science

2002-present: Editorial Board, Arts & Humanities in Higher Education (Sage)

2000-2005: Chair, Ethics Working Committee, Association of Internet Researchers

2001-2002: Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center, Drury University

1998-2000: Board member, ASIANetwork <www.asianetwork.org>

1996-1998: Research Associate, Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics,

Carnegie Mellon University (sabbatical leave, fall, 1996)

1995-2001: Chair, Philosophy and Religion Department, Drury College

1994: Tenure, promotion to Professor, Drury College

1988-1994: Associate Professor, Drury College

1986-1988: Assistant Professor, Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa.

(Leave replacement)

1980-1986: Assistant Professor, Rocky Mountain College, Billings, Montana.

(Tenure, leave of absence approved, 1986; promotion to

associate approved, 1988)


Languages: German (fluent); good reading, oral comprehension in French; fair reading ability – Danish, Norwegian; modest reading ability – classical and koiné Greek.


Works in progress:

Books

(with Mia Consalvo and Robert Burnett, co-editors), The Blackwell Handbook of Internet Studies. Publication date: 2009.

(with Fay Sudweeks), Culture, Technology, Communication: Contemporary Perspectives (working title). Cambridge Scholars Press. Publication date: 2009.

Book chapters

(with May Thorseth), "Global Information and Computing Ethics," in Luciano Floridi (ed.), A Philosophical Introduction to Computer Ethics. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Always on? Ethical and political dimensions of mobile communication technologies. In Kristóf Nyíri (ed.), Mobile Communications and the Ethics of Social Networking (provisional title). Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 2009.

Ethical Dimensions of New Technologies and Media, ICA Handbook of Communication Ethics, Debashish Munshi, George Cheney, Steve May (eds.). Routledge / Lawrence Erlbaum, 2009.

Journal article

“Floridi’s Philosophy of Information and Information Ethics: Current Perspectives, Future Directions,” for a special issue on “The Philosophy of Information, its Nature and Future Developments,” edited by Luciano Floridi, The Information Society.

Conference organization

Scientific Committee, 11th Laval Conference, “The Philosophy of Identity in the Virtual” / Recontres Internationales de la Réalité Virtuelle, Laval, France, April 22-26, 2009.

Program Committee, CEPE (Computer Ethics: Professional Enquiries). June 27-29, 2009. Corfu, Greece.

Program track co-chair (with Dr. Jutta Weber), “IT and Cultural Diversity,” ECAP’09, July 2-4, 2009. Barcelona, Spain.

Program track co-chair (with Dr. Evan Selinger), “Technology, culture and globalization,” 16th biennial conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, University of Twente (Netherlands), July 8-10, 2009.

AoIR Internet Research 10.0. October/September 2009. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Co-chair, CATaC’10. University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 2010.



PhD Supervision, Evaluation

2008-2009: Dissertation Committee, Johnny Søraker (University of Twente, Netherlands), "The Importance of Virtual Environments for Ideals of the Good Life and the Good Society." (Director: Philip Brey.)

Mentor, Association of Internet Researchers’ pre-conference Doctoral Colloquium, 15 October, 2008, The IT-University of Copenhagen, directed by Klaus Bruhn Jensen and sponsored by the Danish Research School / Forskerskolen MedierKommunikationJournalistik (FMKJ).

PhD Examiner, University of Canberra, Australia.

2007: PhD Evaluation Committee; First Opponent, PhD defense: Marika Lüders, "Being in mediated spaces: An enquiry into personal media practices." Department of Media and Communication, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, Norway (Fall).

Supervision: Stine Lombard, Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University.

Supervision: Tasha Buch (Danish Pedagogical University), "Educational computer games with trans-national potential: Developing a trans-national framework for educational computer game design."

Supervision: Rikke Frank Joergensen (Danish Institute for Human Rights), "The Internet: renegotiating public and private."

2006: Evaluation Committee, First Opponent, PhD defense: Janne Bromseth, "Genre trouble and the body that mattered : negotiations of gender, sexuality and identity on a Scandinavian mailing list community for lesbian and bisexual women." Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Faculty of Arts, Norwegian Science and Technical University (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. Successfully defended, 16. June 2006.

PhD preliminary examiner (information ethics), Mälardalen University, Sweden.

PhD Examiner, Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia.

2005-2006: PhD co-supervisor (with Espen Aarseth), IT-University, Copenhagen. Miguel Sicart, "The Ethics of Computer Game Design." Successfully defended, 8. December 2006.

2003: PhD Examiner, Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia.

PhD Examiner, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia.

2002: PhD Examiner, School of Communications and Multimedia, Edith Cowan University (Mount Lawley, Western Australia)



Recent Publications:

Books

Digital Media Ethics, Polity Press, 2009.

Editor, with Soraj Hongladarom, Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives. IGI Global, 2007.

Technical Editor, Existentialism for Dummies, by Christopher Panza, Gregory Gale. Wiley, 2008.

Editor, with May Thorseth, Technology in a Multicultural and Global Society. Programme for Applied Ethics: Publication Series No. 6. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, 2005.

Editor, Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2004.

Editor, with Fay Sudweeks, Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village. Preface by Susan Herring. SUNY Press Series on Computer-Mediated Communication. (June, 2001)

Editor, Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996. Includes my “Thoughts along the I-Way: Philosophy and the Emergence of Computer-Mediated Communication” (Introduction) (pp. 1-12), and “The Political Computer: Democracy, CMC, and Habermas” (pp. 197-230).


Recent book chapters

Culture and global networks: hope for a global ethics? In Jeroen van den Hoven and John Weckert (Eds.), Information Technology and Moral Philosophy, 195-225. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
[This chapter was translated into Chinese for publication in a special issue on information ethics, 耀怀 吕 (Lü Yao-huai), ed., Journal of Shanghai Teachers University.]

(with Elizabeth Buchanan) “Internet Research Ethics,” K. Himma and H. Tavani (eds.), The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics, 273-292. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

War and Peace, East and West – Online: A Comparison of How Different World Religions Use the Internet. In Hans-Georg Möller and Günter Wohlfart (eds.), Philosophieren über den Krieg: War in Eastern and Western Philosophies, 199-212. (Reihe für Asiatische und Komparative Philosophie Neue Folge Band 2). Berlin: Parerga Verlag, 2008.

When the Solution becomes the Problem: Cultures and Individuals as Obstacles to Online Learning. (Opening chapter.) In Marie-Noëlle Lamy and Robin Goodfellow (eds.) Learning Cultures in Online Education. Continuum Press, 2008.

East-West Perspectives on Privacy, Ethical Pluralism and Global Information Ethics. In Herbert Hrachovec , Alois Pichler (Eds.), Philosophy of the Information Society. (Vol. 7, Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society), pp. 185-203. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008.

Internet Research Ethics. In Adam Joinson, Katelyn McKenna, Tom Postmes, and Ulf-Dietrich Reips (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology, 487-502. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Research Ethics of Internet Research, International Encyclopedia of Communication, Blackwell Press, 2007.

Can the Local Reshape the Global? Ethical Imperatives for Humane Intercultural Communication Online. In Johannes Frühbauer, Rafael Capurro and Thomas Hausmanninger (Eds.) Localizing the Internet. Ethical Aspects in an Intercultural Perspective, 153-169.
 (Volume 4, ICIE Series.) München: Wilhelm Fink, 2007.

Liberal Arts and Distance Education: Can Socratic Virtue (arete) and Confucius' Exemplary Person (junzi) Be Taught Online? In Mark Pegrum and Joe Lockard (eds.), Brave New Classrooms: Educational Democracy and the Internet, 189-212. New York: Peter Lang, 2007.

Universal Information Ethics? Ethical Pluralism and Social Justice. In Emma Rooksby and John Weckert (eds.), Information Technology and Social Justice, 69-92. Hershey, PA: Idea Publishing, 2006.

Computer-Mediated Colonization, the Renaissance, and Educational Imperatives for an Intercultural Global Village. Ethics and Information Technology IV (1): (February, 2002), 11-22. Reprinted in: John Weckert (ed.), Computer Ethics. (The International Library of Essays in Public and Professional Ethics.) Hampshire (UK): Ashgate, 2007.

From Computer-Mediated Colonization to Culturally-Aware ICT Usage and Design. In P. Zaphiris and S. Kurniawan (eds.), Advances in Universal Web Design and Evaluation: Research, Trends and Opportunities, 178-197. Hershey, PA: Idea Publishing, 2006.

Du colonialisme informatique à un usage culturellement informé des TIC. In J. Aden (ed.), De Babel à la mondialisation: apport des sciences sociales à la didactique des langues, 47-61. Dijon : CNDP - CRDP de Bourgogne, 2006.

“Being In Place Out of Place.../ Being Out of Place In Place: CMC, Globalization, and Emerging Hybridities as New Cosmopolitanisms?” In May Thorseth and Charles Ess (eds.), Technology in a Multicultural and Global Society, 91-114. NTNU Publication Series No. 6. Trondheim, Norway: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2005.

Computer-Mediated Colonization, the Renaissance, and Educational Imperatives for an Intercultural Global Village. In Robert Cavalier (ed.), The Internet and Our Moral Lives, pp. 161-193. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press), 2004.

“Discourse Ethics,” in Carl Mitcham et al (eds.), Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. New York: MacMillan Reference, 2005.

“Das Christentum gab dem Eros Gift zu trinken …”: Can Confucian thought provide an antidote?” In Hans-Georg Möller and Günter Wohlfart (eds.), Love East and West. Parerga Verlag: Berlin, 2007, 165-182.

Computing in Philosophy and Religion, in Susan Schreibman, R.G. Siemens and John Unsworth (eds.), A Companion to Digital Humanities, pp. 132-142. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

Beyond Contemptus Mundi and Cartesian Dualism: Western Resurrection of the BodySubject and (re)New(ed) Coherencies with Eastern Approaches to Life/Death, in Günter Wollfahrt and Hans Georg-Moeller (eds.), Philosophie des Todes: Death Philosophy East and West, 15-36. Chora Verlag: Munich, 2004.

The Cathedral or the Bazaar? The AoIR document on Internet Research Ethics as an Exercise in Open Source Ethics, in Mia Consalvo et al (eds.), Internet Research Annual Volume 1: Selected Papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conferences 2000-2002, pp. 95-103. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.

(with Steve Jones), Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research: Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee, in Elizabeth Buchanan (ed.), Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies, 27-44. Hershey: Idea Group Publishing, 2003.

Cultural Collisions and Collusions in the Electronic Global Village: From McWorld and Jihad to Intercultural Cosmopolitanism, in Peter D. Herschock, Marietta Stepaniants, and Roger T. Ames (eds.), Technology and Cultural Values on the Edge of the Third Millenium, 508-527. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press and East-West Philosophers Conference, 2003.

“(Re)New(ed) Perspectives on Embodiment and Internet Research Ethics,” in May Thorseth (ed.), Applied Ethics in Internet Research, 13-29. Trondheim, Norway: Programme for Applied Ethics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. 2003.

Computer-mediated Communication and Human-Computer Interaction. 2003. In Luciano Floridi (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Information and Computing, 76-91. Oxford: Blackwell.

Epilogue: Are We There Yet? Emerging Ethical Guidelines for Online Research. 2003. In Mark D. Johns, Shing-Ling Sarina Chen and G. Jon Hall (eds.), Online Social Research: Methods, Issues, and Ethics, 253-263. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.

Electronic Global Village or McWorld? The Paradoxes of Computer-mediated Cosmopolitanism and the Quest for Universal Values. In Rolf Elberfeld, Johann Kreuzer, John Minford, and Günter Wohlfart (eds.), Komparative Ethik: Das gute Leben zwischen den Kulteren [Comparative Ethics: the Good Life between Cultures], 319-342. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2002.

Cultures in Collision: Philosophical Lessons from Computer-Mediated Communication. In James H. Moor and Terrell Ward Bynum (eds.), CyberPhilosophy: The Intersection of Philosophy and Computing, 219-242. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.

Religious Perspectives (text and video contributions), in The Issue of Abortion in America: an exploration of a social controversy on CD-ROM, Robert Cavalier, Preston Covey, Elizabeth A. Style, and Andrew Thompson. London: Routledge, 1998.

Reading Adam and Eve: Re-Visions of the Myth of Woman’s Subordination to Man, in: Marie M. Fortune and Carol J. Adams (eds.), Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook, 92-120. New York: Continuum Press, 1995.

The Political Computer: Hypertext, Democracy, and Habermas in: G. Landow (ed.), Hyper/Text/Theory, 225-267. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1994.


Journal articles, conference publications

Editor, "Floridi and His Critics,"Ethics and Information Technology 10 (2-3: 2008). Introduction: “Luciano Floridi’s philosophy of information and information ethics: Critical reflections and the state of the art.” Ethics and Information Technology 10 (2-3: 2008): 89-96.

Co-Editor (with May Thorseth), "Kant and Information Ethics, "Ethics and Information Technology 10 (4: December, 2008), 205-211.

In Mediated Spaces (Review of Marika Lüders’ being in mediated spaces, PhD thesis), Norsk Medietidsskrift [The Norwegian Journal of Media Studies] 15 (no. 3: 2008), 264-267.

(with Dan Burk, Gove Allen), Ethical Approaches to Robotic Data Gathering in Academic Research. International Journal of Internet Research Ethics
 1 (1: January, 2008). <http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/ijire/ijire_1.1_allen.pdf>

“Déclinaisons culturelles en ligne : observation « de l'autre »," special issue of Etudes De Linguistique Appliquée (Paris: Didier Klienkensick), "D’autres espaces pour les cultures,” edited by Clara Farrao. No. 146 (avril-juin 2007), 149-160.

Bridging Cultures: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Unity and Diversity Online. Introduction to special issue, Information Ethics, International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction 3 (3 –July-September, 2007), iii-x.

Cybernetic Pluralism in an Emerging Global Information and Computing Ethics. International Review of Information Ethics 7 (September, 2007). <http://www.i-r-i-e.net/inhalt/007/11-ess.pdf>

Special Theme Issue (with Akira Kawabata and Hiroyuki Kurosaki), "Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Religion and Computer-Mediated Communication," Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12 (3), April, 2007. <http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue3/ess.html>

(with May Thorseth [NTNU]), Neither relativism nor imperialism: Theories and practices for a global information ethics [introduction, pp. 91-95] and special issue on "Global Information Ethics: Cross-cultural Approaches to Emancipation, Privacy and Regulation." Ethics and Information Technology, Volume 8, Number 3, pp. 91-154.

Ethical Pluralism and Global Information Ethics. (Uehiro / Carnegie Foundations Oxford Conference lecture.) In Luciano Floridi and Julian Savulescu (eds.), “Information Ethics: Agents, Artifacts and New Cultural Perspectives,” a special issue of Ethics and Information Technology 8 (4: November 2006), 215 – 226.
[This chapter was into Japanese for simultaneous publication in: 西垣通 (Toru Nishigaki) & 竹之内禎 (Tadashi Takenouchi), eds., 国際情報倫理学 (Kokusai Joho Rinrigaku - Intercultural information ethics), NTT publishing, Tokyo, 2006.]

(with Gove Allen, Dan Burk), “Academic Data Collection in Electronic Environments: Defining Acceptable Use of Internet Resources.” Ethics and Information Technology.

Special issue (co-editor with Elizabeth Buchanan), The Ethics of E-Games. International Review of Information Ethics, Vol. 2/2005. < http://www.i-r-i-e.net/>

‘‘Lost in translation’’?: Intercultural dialogues on privacy and information ethics (Introduction to special issue on Privacy and Data Privacy Protection in Asia), Ethics and Information Technology (2005) 7 (1): 1–6.

“Culture and Computer-Mediated Communication: Toward New Understandings,” (with Fay Sudweeks), theme issue, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Culture and Computer-Mediated Communication: Toward New Understandings. Vol. 11, No. 1: October, 2005. <http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue1/ess.html/>

With Fay Sudweeks, “Communication, Culture and Praxis,” special issue of Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication, Vol. 15 (1-2), 2005. <http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/v15n12.htm>

“Liberal Arts and Distance Education: Can Socratic Virtue (arete) and Confucius' Exemplary Person (junzi) Be Taught Online?” In Soraj Hongladarom (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology and Universities in Asia (ITUA 2002), 107-137. Bangkok, Thailand: Chulalongkorn University Press.

Comparative Approaches in Philosophy of Religion, ASIANetwork EXCHANGE: A Newsletter for Teaching about Asia, Vol. XI, No. 1 (Fall, 2003), 18-22.

The RESPECT Guidelines: Ethical, Cultural, and Meta-Ethical Considerations, presentation to the RESPECT Conference (funded by the European Commission’s Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme, to draw up professional and ethical guidelines for the conduct of socio-economic research), Budapest, June 11-12, 2003. Conference presentations available from the RESPECT Project website, <http://www.respectproject.org/main/index.php>.

Liberal Arts and Distance Education: Can Socratic Virtue (arete) and Confucius' Exemplary Person (junzi) Be Taught Online? Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, vol. 2, no. 2 (June, 2003): 117-137.

(With Fay Sudweeks), Introduction and special issue on “Liberatory Potentials and Practices of CMC in the Middle East,” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 8, issue 2, 2003. <http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol8/issue2/>

Final Report of the AoIR ethics working committee, “Ethical Guidelines for Internet Research,” AoIR (Association of Internet Researchers). <aoir.org/reports/ethicsfinal.pdf>

Introduction, Ethics and Information Technology 4 (3): 177-188. Special issue on Internet Research Ethics, (co-edited with Helen Nissenbaum), based on panel presentations at the Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries (CEPE) Conference, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. December 14-16, 2001. Available online: <http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/projects_ethics.html>.

Borgmann and the Borg: Consumerism vs. Holding on to Reality. A review essay on Albert Borgmann’s Holding on to Reality, special issue of Techne, edited by Phil Mullins. 2002. <http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v6n1/ess.html>

(with Fay Sudweeks) Liberation in cyberspace ... Or computer-mediated colonization? / Liberation en Cyberspace ou Colonisation Assistee par Ordinateur? Introduction to “Global cultures: collisions and communication,” special issue of Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication, Volume 12 Numbers 3 & 4, 2002. <http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/v12n34.htm>

Cultures in Collision: Philosophical Lessons from Computer-Mediated Communication, Metaphilosophy, Vol. 33, Nos. 1/2 (January, 2002): 229-253.

Computer-Mediated Colonization, the Renaissance, and Educational Imperatives for an Intercultural Global Village. Special issue, “The Impact of the Internet on our Moral Lives,” Ethics and Information Technology IV (1): (February, 2002), 11-22.

Co-editor (with Jonathan Zhu and Fay Sudweeks), Internet Adoption in the Asia-Pacific Region, special issue of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 7: 2 (January, 2002). <http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol7/issue2/>

Initial Comments on Teaching Comparative Philosophy, ASIANetwork EXCHANGE IX (2: Winter, 2001), 20-25.

On the Edge: Cultural Barriers and Catalysts to IT Diffusion among Remote and Marginalized Communities, introduction to special issue of New Media and Society, 3 (3: September), 2001.

The Word online? Text and image, authority and spirituality in the Age of the Internet. Special issue, “The Net: New Apprentices and Old Masters / Nouveaux Horizons, Vielles Hégémonies,” Mots Pluriels et grands themes de notre temps. Revue électronique de Lettres à caractère international. 19 (Octobre/October 2001). <http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901ce.html>

We are the Borg: the Web as agent of assimilation or cultural Renaissance? - PhilTech article in ephilosopher, (Fall, 2000). <http://www.ephilosopher.com/120100/philtech/philtech.htm>

Wag the dog? Online Conferencing and Teaching, Computers and the Humanities, August - 34: 3 (August 2000), 297-309.

Cultural Collisions and Collusions in the Electronic Global Village: From McWorld and Jihad to Intercultural Cosmopolitanism, Philosophy and Social Action 26: 1-2 (March) 2000.

Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication: New Directions of Research in Computer-Mediated Communication, Guest Editorial, special issue of AI and Society, “Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication” (co-edited with Fay Sudweeks), Vol 13, 1999. Pp. 329-340.

Co-editor (with Fay Sudweeks), special issue of Javnost-the Public, “Global Cultures: Communities, Communication and Transformation.” Vol 6, 1999.

Review Essay, “Critique in Communication and Philosophy: an Emerging Dialogue?” (regarding James W. Chesebro and Dale A. Bertelsen, Analyzing Media: Communication Technologies as Symbolic and Cognitive Systems [New York: Guilford Press, 1996)]), Research in Philosophy and Technology, special issue on Philosophies of the Environment and Technology, Vol. 18, 1999. Pp. 219-226.


Recent Invited Lectures, Keynote Addresses, Translations

Invited (closing) plenary address, “The Ethics of Mobile Media.” Conference on “Mobile Communication and the Ethics of Social Networking,” Budapest, Sept. 25–27, 2008. Organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and T-Mobile Hungary.

Invited keynote address, Persons, Privacy, Community: East-West Perspectives on Technology and the Good Life. The Good Life in a Technological Culture. Workshop at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, June 12-14, 2008. Organized by Philip Brey and the New Media group, Philosophy Department, University of Twente.

Invited lecture/seminar, “IT and Ethics: Globalization as both Problem and Solution," PhD student seminar, Globalization Program, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Trondheim, April 11, 2008.

Invited lecture, "Globalization and on-line communication," as part of a 1-day conference on Media Sociology: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University. 4 December 2007.

Invited lecture, Masters/PhD seminar, "Culture, Technology, Communication: From Computer-Mediated Colonization to Culturally-Sensitive Design for Cultural Diversity, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), Glasgow University. 19-20 November, 2008.

Guest lectures, "Culture and the Ethics of Online Design," for "Internet Communication" course, International Bachelor of Marketing and Management Communication Programme, Handelshøjskolen, Århus Universitet. 13 November, 2007.

"Kant and the Net: How Kantian philosophy applies to contemporary issues in e-Science, regulation, search engines, virtual reality, and democracy online." Opening Brown-Bag Seminar, Science, Technology and Medicine Network, Aarhus University. 3 October 2007.

Guest lecture, "Ethics and privacy in the internet age" –for combined classes in Media Studies, Information Studies, interested faculty and students (e.g., philosophy). Aarhus University, 26 September 2007.

Guest lecturer, student supervision, Erasmus Mundus Master's Program in Applied Ethics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Trondheim, September 17-21, 2007.

Guest lecture, "Culture, Technology, Communication: From Computer-Mediated Colonization to Culturally-Sensitive Design for Cultural Diversity," Faculty network on globalization, Aarhus University. 7 September, 2007.

Invited plenary speaker, “Philosophy of the Information Society - Philosophie der Informationsgesellschaft,” 2007 International Wittgenstein Symposium. Kirchberg, Austria, August 5-11.

Invited plenary speaker, Zweiter internationaler Kongress „Kulturwissenschaftliche Technikforschung“ [Second international congress, "Cultural-Scientific Technology Research"], University of Hamburg, Germany, 1-3 June, 2007.

Guest lecturer, student supervision, Erasmus Mundus Master's Program in Applied Ethics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Trondheim, 13-15 December, 2006.

Information Ethics Fellow Lecture, Center for Information Policy Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. November 13, 2006.

Video available online: <http://129.89.43.24:8080/ramgen/classes/CIPR/charlesess.rm>

Final text version: <http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/docs/ess.pdf>

Invited participant, “The ethical, legal and institutional issues of e-research,” chaired by Bill Dutton, Director of the Oxford e-Social Science Project, Oxford Internet Institute; Research Methods Festival, sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council, Oxford Internet Institute and the Oxford Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford. 17-20 July, 2006. (Invitation declined because of schedule conflicts.)

Invited speaker, workshop on “Privacy and Surveillance Technology – Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” ZiF (Center of Interdisciplinary Studies), University of Bielefeld. February 10-11, 2006.

Invited speaker, 2005 Conference of the Uehiro Foundation and Carnegie Council: University of Oxford Symposium on Ethics, Oxford University, December 8-9, 2005.

Keynote address, “What should IRB members know about Internet research ethics?” IRB Member Education Symposium, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, April 25, 2005.

Panel respondent, “Japanese Religions and ICTs,” 19th World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Tokyo, Japan, 30 March, 2005.

Invited lecture, Information Ethics: Local Approaches, Global Potentials? Or: Divergence, Convergence, and Ethical Pluralism as Maintaining Distinctive Cultural Identities and (quasi?)-universal Ethics (sponsored by the Uehiru Foundation for Ethics and Education), Tokyo University, March 22, 2005.

Plenary address, “From Computer-Mediated Colonisation to Culturally-Aware ICT Usage and Design,” Conference, “Contenus culturels et didactique des langues : rôle des disciplines contributoires,” hosted by ALDIDAC (Approche Linguistique et Didactique de la Différence Culturelle), Cergy Pontoise, France, March 11, 2005.

Invited keynote address, “International Restrictions Affecting Internet Research: Conflicts, Risks, Resolutions?” National Conference (Canada) of NCEHR/CNERH (National Council on Ethics in Human research / Conseil national d’éthique en recherche chez l’humain). Ottawa, Canada, March 5, 2005.

Invited keynote address, “Information ethics: local approaches, global potentials?,” Second Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference (AP-CAP), Bangkok, Thailand, January 7 - 9, 2005.

Invited lecture, “Cross-cultural communication online: How Diverse Cultural Values and Communicative Preferences Shape Users and Uses of Computer-mediated Communication Technologies,” Informatics Institute, Humboldt University, Berlin, December 16, 2004.

Invited lecture, “Cross-cultural communication online: How Diverse Cultural Values and Communicative Preferences Shape Users and Uses of Computer-mediated Communication Technologies,” Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, December 10, 2004.

Invited lecture, “(Quasi) Global Research Ethics? Challenges, Accomplishments, More Challenges,” Networked Research and Digital Information (NERDI), KNAW-Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science, November 25, 2004, Amsterdam. Available online: <http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/en/nerdi2/lectures/charles_ess>.

Keynote address, “Can the Local Reshape the Global? Ethical Imperatives for Humane Intercultural Communication Online – Views from the Centers and the Margins,” International Conference on Information Ethics. Karlsruhe, Germany. Oct. 4 – 5, 2004.

Invited lecture, “Cross-cultural communication online: How Diverse Cultural Values and Communicative Preferences Shape Users and Uses of Computer-mediated Communication Technologies,” Carnegie Mellon Libraries, Pittsburgh, PA. August 3, 2004. Available online: <http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/FIDArchive.html>

“Research Ethics: Cases, Issues, Possible Resolutions,” presentation and conference organization, “Practical Ethics in Journalism and New Media,” University of Colorado, Boulder. June 16-19, 2004.

Workshop facilitator (with Dan Burk), “The Law and Ethics of Online Research,”Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference. Berkeley, CA. April 20-23, 2004. <www.drury.edu/ess/CFP/CFP.html>

Invited panel presentation, “What Computers Can/'t Do: Ethics and Culture Offline/Online.” Panel with Andrew Feenberg, “Computers and the Mediation of Human Experience,” sponsored jointly by the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Philosophy and Computers and the Society for Philosophy and Technology. APA Pacific meeting, Pasadena, CA. March 24-29, 2004. [cancelled because of Prof. Feenberg’s travel difficulties]

“Socratic Virtue (arete), Confucius’ Exemplary Person (junzi) and the Quest for Global Online Ethics,” Philosophy Department, University of Missouri, Columbia. March 17, 2004.

Invited panel presentation, “(Quasi-) Global Research Ethics? Challenges, accomplishments, More Challenges,” National Conference (Canada) of NCEHR/CNERH (National Council on Ethics in Human research / Conseil national d’éthique en recherche chez l’humain). Chateau Cartier, Gatineau, Quebec. March 7, 2004.

Invited commentary, “International /Interdisciplinary Applied Ethics: The RESPECT Guidelines.” RESPECT Project, workshop. European Commission. Brussels, January 21, 2004.

With Line Gulløv Lundh, “Research ethics guidelines for internet research” – a translation of “Forskningsetiske retningslinjer for internettforskning.” English translation approved by Den nasjonale forskningsetiske komité for samfunnsvitenskap og humaniora (NESH): 3. December 2003. Posted on the NESH website, <http://www.etikkom.no/Engelsk/Publications/internet03/>.

Invited lecture, “Who needs ethics? Cross-cultural approaches to legal and ethical aspects of online research.” Seminar presentation, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen. December 3, 2003. (Slides online: <http://www.itu.dk/~chess/KUA/KUAEthics.html>.)

Invited lecture, “From the Garden to Cyberspace – and Back Again? (Re)new(ed) Perspectives on Embodiment, Identity, Ethics, and Community.” Philosophy Department, Århus University, December 2, 2003. (Slides online: <http://www.itu.dk/~chess/Aarhus/Garden.html>.)

Invited lecture, “Internet Research and Information Ethics: Issues, Cross-cultural Perspectives, Convergence and/or Divergence?” Seminar presentation, Department of Media and Communication Studies, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden. November 12, 2003. (Slides online: < http://www.itu.dk/~chess/Karlstad/ethics.html>.)

Invited lecture, “Being In Place Out of Place.../ Being Out of Place In Place: CMC, Globalization, and Emerging Hybridities as New Cosmopolitanisms?” “Technology in a Multicultural and Global Society,” sponsored by the Programme for Applied Ethics and the Globalisation Project, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. Oct. 9, 2003. (Slides online: <http://www.itu.dk/~chess/NTNU/NTNU03.html>.)

Invited lecture, “Information Ethics and Intercultural Communication,” University of Canberra (in collaboration with the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics, Charles Sturt University, NSW), May 21, 2003. [CANCELED - SARS]

Invited lecture, “Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication,” University, Perth, Western Australia, May 19, 2003. [CANCELED - SARS]

Keynote speaker, “Language, culture, hybridity: towards global citizenship.” ASIA CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) Conference, Bangkok, Thailand. May 14-16, 2003. [CANCELED - SARS]

Invited lecture, “Ethics and Intercultural Communication.” Symposium, Philosophy Department, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. May 13, 2003. [CANCELED - SARS]

Invited lecture, “Open Source Ethics? Pluralism, Cross-Cultural Communication, and Global Ethics.” Information Ethics Group, Oxford Computing Laboratory, Oxford, UK. March 26, 2003.

Invited lecture, “Cross-cultural Communication and Technology.” Humanities Higher Education Research Group (HERG), Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. March 25, 2003.

Keynote speaker, “Making common ground: Methodological and Ethical issues in Internet-research,” Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. May 30 – June 2, 2002.

Invited lectures, Film & Media Studies, University of Copenhagen, University of Roskilde, IT-University Copenhagen, Denmark. May 27-29, 2002.

Keynote speaker, “Liberal Arts and Distance Education: Can Socratic Virtue (aee and Confucius' Exemplary Person (junzi) Be Taught Online?” Information Technologies and the Universities of Asia conference (sponsored by CALL Asia), Bangkok, Thailand, April 3-5, 2002.

Keynote speaker, “Why We Don't Want Privacy on the Internet,” The La Roche College Center for the Study of Ethics, co-sponsored by the Carnegie Mellon University Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics. October 24, 2001.

Keynote speaker, “Public sphere and public discourse,” opening presentation for Public Privacy: Theoretical, Ethical, and Political Dimensions of the Public Sphere in the Age of the Internet, Ohio University, 6 April 2001.

Invited lecture, “Culture / Communication / Technology: computer-mediated communication or computer-mediated colonization in the ‘electronic global village’?” University of Paderborn (Germany), May 25, 2001.

Invited lecture, “Computer-mediated Communication and Computer-mediated Culture: the Quest for Shared Values in an Electronic Global Village,” Académie du Midi / Institut für Philosophie: Ethics East-West Conference, Alet-les-Bains, France, 4-8 June 2001

Invited lecture, “Culture / Communication / Technology: computer-mediated communication or computer-mediated colonization in the 'electronic global village'?” Monday “Open Minds” series, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 5 February 2001.

Invited lecture, “Is there a Borg in your Future? Technological Determinism, Technological Instrumentalism, and Whither the Electronic Global Village?” Communication Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, 28 April 2000.

Invited lecture, “Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication: Avoiding Cybercentrism on the Fiber Optic Road to the Global Village.” Kauai Community College, Kauai, Hawai’i, 13 January 2000. Under the auspices of University of Hawai’i’s International Affairs Outreach Program of the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council.


Recent Conference Organization, Presentations,

Invited lecture, “Cultural Dimensions of New Technologies,” for the conference, “Is the Knowledge World Flat?” Sponsored by Mouvement universel pour la responsabilité scientifique (Universal Movement for Responsibility in Science) and the Ministry of Research and Higher Education (<www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr>). 24-25 November 2008, Paris.

AoIR Internet Research 9.0, "Rethinking Communities, Rethinking Place." Sponsored by IT-University (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Copenhagen University. October 15-19, 2008.

Scientific Committee, conference on “Ethics with presence and social presence technologies.” October 16, 2008, Human Technology Lab, University of Padova, Italy.

CATaC'08, "ICTs bridging cultures? Theories, obstacles and best practices / 
Les TIC: des ponts entre les cultures? Théories, obstacles, bonnes pratiques." Sponsored by 
Université de Nîmes, 
IUFM (Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres) de Montpellier, 
IUT (Institut Universitaire de Technologie) de Béziers. 24-27 June, 2008. (See <www.cataconference.org> for program, etc.)

Information and Computing Ethics: Current Perspectives – Future Directions. European Computing and Philosophy Conference (ECAP’08), Montpellier, France, 16. June 2008.

Conference co-chair, AoIR 8.0. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. October 11-14, 2007.

Faculty workshop organizer. “Kant and Information Ethics,” NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. March 19-23, 2007.

Invited topic facilitator (Cultural Diversity and ICTs), Africa Information Ethics Symposium, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. February 5 – 7, 2007.

War and Peace, East and West Online: A Comparison of How Different World Religions Use the Internet. Panel presentation, "Global Communication of Fundamentalist Knowledge," December 14–16 2006, Trondheim, Norway.

Religion on the Internet: Cross-Cultural Approaches to Conflict, Dialogue and Transformation - as part of panel on “Web Studies and Religion,” Brenda Brasher, Chair. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, annual conference: Portland, Oregon. 19-22. October 2006.

An Impending ICE (Information and Computing Ethics) Age? (Panel Presentation, Terry Bynum, Chair). North American Computers and Philosophy Conference. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. 10 August 2006.

Panel chair, organizer, “Social, Cultural, and Metaphysical Issues,” CAP Conference.

Panel Respondent, “Case-based Heuristics for Addressing Ethical Dilemmas in Internet-based Research,” Heidi McKee and James Porter, co-chairs. Internet Research 7.0: Internet Convergences (AoIR annual conference). Brisbane, Australia, 27-30 September, 2006.

Panel Chair, “Discourse Ethics and Online Religion?” AoIR 7.0.

Invited panel moderator, “Global Communication of Fundamentalist Knowledge,” NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. Dec. 14-16, 2006. (See <http://www.hf.ntnu.no/cofu/index.php?lenke=programme.php>)

Conference Co-Chair (with May Thorseth, Johnny Søraker, NTNU) – European Computers and Philosophy Conference ’06. NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. June 22-24, 2006.

Conference Co-Chair (with Fay Sudweeks), CATaC’06, Tartu, Estonia, June 27-July 1, 2006.

“War and Peace, East and West – Online: A Comparison of How Different World Religions Use the Internet ,” 16th Symposium of the Académie du Midi (East-West Philosophy). Alet-les-bains, France, June 5-9, 2006.

Pre-conference workshop, panel coordinator, Internet Research Ethics, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) annual conference, October 5-9, 2005. Chicago, Illinois.

e-Commerce as Engines of Democracy? The Case of Privacy and Data Privacy Protection Laws in Asia. Conference on “Navigating Globalization: Stability, Fluidity, and Friction,” 4 - 6 August 2005, Trondheim, Norway.

Summer Faculty Workshop: “Bridging Cultures: Computer Ethics, Culture, and Information and Communication Technologies.” (With May Thorseth and Knut Rolland [NTNU], and Luciano Floridi (Oxford). Trondheim, Norway, May 15 – June 8, 2005. (see <www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php>)

Panel moderator, “Religious Extremism: A Road Map Leading to War or Peace?”, with Jacob Needleman, Huston Smith, Paul Hanson. Southwest Missouri State University (Springfield, Missouri), First Public Affairs Conference, April 14, 2005.

Panel participant, “Research Ethics,” Association of Internet Researchers’ Fifth Annual Conference, September 22, 2004. Sussex, UK.

Panel participant, “Space as Metaphor,” Association of Internet Researchers’ Fifth Annual Conference, September 22, 2004. Sussex, UK.

Panel Coordinator, “Information Ethics and Philosophy of Information: Emerging Landscapes?” Computers and Philosophy Conference, Carnegie-Mellon University, August 2-4, 2004.

CATaC’04 (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication), conference co-chair. (The fourth biennial CATaC conference, begun in London, 1998, with Fay Sudweeks.) Karlstad, Sweden; June 28-July 1, 2004. <www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac>

“Christianity gave eros poison to drink”: Can Confucian Thought Provide the Antidote?” Académie du Midi / Institut für Philosophie: East-West Conference, Alet-les-Bains, France. May 30 - June 4, 2004.

“Technology in a multicultural (global) society,” conference organization and presentation with May Thorseth (Programme for Applied Ethics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim) and Dag Elgesem (Department of Humanistic Informatics, Bergen University, Bergen, Norway). Trondheim, Norway. October 9, 2003.

Panel respondent (based on my chapter “Are We There Yet?” in Mark Johns et al, (eds.), 2003.), “Online Social Research: Methods, Issues, and Ethics,” AoIR 4.0, Toronto, Oct. 16, 2003.

“Internet Research Ethics,” Pre-conference workshop, AoIR 4.0 conference, Toronto, October 15, 2003.

“Ethical Guidelines for Internet Research,” New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methods Symposium. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, September 4-6, 2003.

Program Committee, CEPE 2003: Fifth International Conference of Computer Ethics - Philosophical Enquiry June 25-27, 2003. Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (USA).

“Comparative Approaches in Philosophy of Religion.” Part of panel on Teaching Comparative Philosophy, ASIANetwork Annual Conference, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, April 11-12, 2003.

“Internet Research Ethics.” Computers and Philosophy Conference, Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland. March 28, 2003.

Chair, “Ethical Decision-making and Internet Research: The AoIR Ethics Working Committee’s Recommendations,” AoIR 3.0, Maastricht, the Netherlands, Oct. 14, 2002.

“Culture, Technology, Communication: Insights Old and New.” 17th annual Computers and Philosophy conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. August 8-10, 2002.

Co-chair, with Fay Sudweeks, “Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication” (CATaC) ’02. Montréal, Canada, July 13-17, 2002. Sponsored in part by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Université de Montréal.

Conference presentation, “Beyond Contemptus Mundi and Cartesian Dualism: Western Resurrection of the BodySubject and (re)New(ed) Coherencies with Eastern Approaches to Life/Death,” Académie du Midi / Institut für Philosophie: East-West Conference, Alet-les-Bains, France, May19-26, 2002.

Panel respondent, “The Impact of Computing on the Profession: Theory,” panel sponsored by the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Philosophy and Computing, APA Central Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 24-27, 2002. I responded to presentations by Barbara Becker (University of Paderborn, Germany), Gordon Graham (Kings' College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK), and Paul Thagard (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada).

Program Chair, “Computer Mediated Communications/Cross Cultural Issues,” Computers and Philosophy Conferences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. 1999-present.

With Helen Nissenbaum, panel organizer/convenor, “Internet Research Ethics,” Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries (CEPE) Conference, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. December 14-16, 2001. (NSF Grant SES-0135590)

Internet Research: An Introduction For Researchers And Teachers. A Preconference Workshop, Nancy Baym, Chair. National Communication Association (Atlanta, GA), October 31, 2001.

Preliminary Report, Ethics Working Committee, Association of Internet Researchers. October 10, 2001. <aoir.org/reports/ethics.html>

“Introduction to Philosophy: an East/West Approach,” plenary panel presentation, ASIANetwork annual conference, Cleveland, OH, April 20-22, 2001.

“The Impact of the Internet on our Moral Lives.” Invited panel presentation, American Philosophical Association Central meeting, May 3-5, 2001. Minneapolis, MN.

“Culture/Technology/Communication - Towards an Intercultural Global Village,” Conference Presentation, “Internet Research 1.0: The State of the Interdiscipline,” September 14-17, 2000, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.

Panel convenor, “Computing and World Cultures,” 15th annual Computers and Philosophy conference, Carnegie Mellon University, August 10-12, 2000.

Conference co-chair, with Fay Sudweeks, CATaC 2000, “Cultural collisions and creative interferences in the global village” (the second conference on culture, technology, and communication), Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, July 13-15, 2000. See <http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/>

Panel convenor, “Teaching and Technology,” ASIANetwork annual conference, Hickory Ridge Conference Center, Lisle, Illinois, April 28-30, 2000.

“Cultural Collisions and Collusions in the Electronic Global Village: From McWorld and Jihad to Intercultural Cosmopolitanism,” Eighth East-West Philosophers’ Conference, University of Hawaii/East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 12, 2000.

Conference Co-chair, “Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication” (CATaC), Science Museum, London, Aug. 1-3, 1998. Co-chair Fay Sudweeks (School of Information Technology, Murdoch University, Western Australia). An interdisciplinary, international conference examining how diverse cultural attitudes - including the cultures of Central and East Asia, North America, Western Europe, and of indigenous peoples - shape the appropriation and use of the Internet and the World Wide Web. CATaC is sponsored by scholarly organizations in the disciplines of communication, cultural studies, religion and philosophy, as well as the Science Museum (London), under contract with the Swiss Office of Technology Assessment.


Consultancies

Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development, College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio. April 23-25, 2003.

Ontario Council on Graduate Studies, Philosophy M.A. Program Appraisal. Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario. (On-site visit, March 19-21, 2003).

American Bible Society: “Best Practices Internet Project.” September, 2002.

Invited participant, the first Pew Internet & American Life Project academic advisory meeting, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 15, 2002.

American Bible Society: “Best Practices Internet Project.” February, 2002.

American Bible Society, “Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media.” Editor of book (conference-based chapters plus additional invited contributions) to be published in 2004.


Recent Grants:

Co-PI (with Elizabeth Buchanan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Internet Research Ethics: Discourse, Inquiry and Policy," National Science Foundation, Division of Social and Economic Sciences - Ethics and Values of Science Engineering and Technology Program. $149,999.00 / 2007-2009. SES 0646591.

Aarhus Universitets Forskningsfond (University of Aarhus Research Fund), 227,500 DKR in support of guest researcher position, Institute for Information and Media Sciences. Fall, 2007.

(with Lorna Heaton, Université de Montréal, and Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (CA$9,690 + 3,500 matching from Université de Montréal) in support of CATaC’02 (Montréal, Canada), <http://www.sshrc.ca/english/programinfo/grantsguide/conference.htm>.

(with Helen Nissenbaum, New York University) National Science Foundation (SES-0135590: $20,529.) Title: Research Agenda Workshop on Internet Research Ethics. In support of travel, accommodations, and conference registration fees for seven participants in a workshop on developing a research agenda for Internet research ethics (with Helen Nissenbaum). In conjunction with the Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries conference (CEPE), Lancaster, UK, Dec. 14-16, 2001.

(with Soraj Hongladarom, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok) Thailand Research Fund, Royal Golden Jubilee Program. This grant included travel funds ($5,500) for two trips to Thailand; one of these trips included my travel to serve as a keynote speaker for the Information Technology and the University in Asia (ITUA), April 3 to 5, 2002.

Hewlett Foundation, “Professionalizing the Liberal Arts.” 1998-2001. In concert with colleagues in architecture, we explore and incorporate the insights and pedagogical strategies of the other’s discipline into our own, beginning with a teaching unit on Thomas Jefferson as architect/philosopher in Alpha Seminar (1998-99) and in subsequent courses in both philosophy and architecture. ($2,000.00)

3M Vision Grant, “STEP UP,” (Director, Ruth Monroe, Theatre Department). 1998-2001.This grant supports philosophy students working with local middle- and elementary school at-risk students in conjunction with theatre, English, and education students, to teach critical thinking, writing, and presentation skills. ($50,000.00)

Program/consulting grant, Swiss Office of Technology Assessment. 1997-8. Ca. $ 3,500 (5,000 Sfr) in support of CATaC ‘98.


Grant proposal reviews

External reviewer, Velux Fonden (Velux Funds), Søborg, 
Denmark. (Proposal submitted in Danish, evaluation written in English.)

Outside appraiser, grant proposal, Commissione per la Ricerca dell’Università della Svizzera italiana, October, 2007.

Outside appraiser, grant proposal, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, February, 2007.

Outside appraiser, grant proposal, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, January, 2007.

Proposal reviewer, Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research, September, 2005.

Outside appraiser, grant proposal, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, January, 2005.

Proposal reviewer, National Science Foundation, March 16, 2004.

Proposal reviewer, Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research, May, 2003.

Proposal reviewer, National Science Foundation, April 16, 2003.

Outside reviewer, research proposal, Ohio University Research Committee. (March 6, 2003).

Outside appraiser, grant proposal, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, January, 2003.

Outside appraiser, “Établissement de nouveaux chercheurs” [“Establishment of new researchers”], Programme Établissement de Nouveaux chercheurs, Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies. Québec, Canada. December 3, 2001.


Recent Manuscript Reviews

MS on information ethics, IJTHI. December, 2008.

Book proposal (Internet Research Ethics), Peter Lang. December, 2008.

MS on online research ethics, Social Networks. September, 2008.

MS on Hinduism and the Internet, International Journal of Information Ethics. July, 2008.

MS, Journal of Applied Logic, February, 2008.

MS, Ethics and Information Technology, December, 2007.

MS, Learning Inquiry. November, 2007.

MS on computer worms and Confucian ethics. Ethics and Information Technology, October, 2007.

MS, Bioethics. April, 2007.

MS on cross-cultural differences regarding information ethics and behaviors, Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics. April, 2007.

Submissions for ECAP'07 (information ethics)

Submissions for CEPE 2007.

Submissions for NA-CAP 2007 (as chair of the "Social, Cultural, and Metaphysical Issues" track).

MS on Information and Computer Ethics for forthcoming book, edited by Susan Stuart and Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, April, 2006.

MS on Internet research ethics, Ethics and Information Technology, May 12, 2005.

MS on culture and CMC, International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, January 15, 2005.

MS on online learning, Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, September 15, 2004.

MS submitted to Nancy Baym (ed.), special issue of The Information Society. April 26, 2004.

MS on Plato and Feminism, Polity Press. Cambridge, UK. March 13, 2004.

MS for Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, February 25, 2004.

Review of Gitte Stald and Thomas Tufte (eds.) 2002. Global Encounters: Media and Cultural Transformation. (Luton: University of Luton Press. For: Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (David Silver, editor). <http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs>

MS for new media and society, November, 2003.

MS for new media and society, July , 2003.

MS for The Information Society, July, 2003.

MS for new media and society, April 1, 2003.

Book MS on history and philosophy of science, Columbia University Press, October-November, 2002.

Book MS on Nietzsche, Great Minds series, Blackwell Publishing, October-November, 2002.

MS for New Media and Society, September 30, 2002.

MS for New Media and Society, March 2, 2002.

MS for Ethics and Information Society. November 13, 2001.

MS for Electronic Journal of Communication/Revue Electronique de Communication. September 27, 2001.

Book MS, Routledge Publishing. July 1, 2001.

MS for Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Fall, 2000.

MS for Routledge Publishing (Critical thinking textbook). Fall, 2000.

MS for Peter Lang Publishing (“Cyber-philosophy” MS). Fall, 2000.

MS for Wadsworth Publishing (for a new edition of a popular university text on world religions). June, 2000.


Honors, Awards

Nominated for Drury University Faculty Award in Liberal Learning, 2007.

Nominated for Drury University Faculty Award in Liberal Learning, 2005.

Nominated for Drury University Faculty Award, Teaching, 2001.

Drury University Faculty Award for Scholarship. 2000.

[Rated “extraordinary” in the areas of teaching (partly on the basis of student evaluations) and scholarship by Dean Stephen H. Good as part of his review, 1997-2000.]

Nominee for Outstanding Faculty (one of four faculty chosen in “Do away with dull; recognize innovative professors,” Drury Mirror (student newspaper), March 22, 1996.

“Joe Wyatt Challenge Success Story,” 1991. My work with IRIS Intermedia (an advanced hypermedia program) was recognized as one of 101 “Joe Wyatt Challenge Success Stories” of the implementation of information technologies in higher education. An award/recognition program sponsored by EDUCOM.

Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Teaching, Drury College, 1991.

Faculty Achievement Award for Distinguished Teaching, Rocky Mountain College, 1985.

Swiss Federal Stipend. 1976-8. In support of two years’ residency and study in Zürich, Switzerland, as part of my dissertation research.

Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University. 1973-76.

Phi Beta Kappa, 1972.


Computer-related projects:

Academic Dialogue on Applied Ethics, Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics, Carnegie Mellon University, and Routledge Publishing. 1996-98. The project consisted of four on-line academic forums on meta-ethics (the “conversational ethics” of Jürgen Habermas, Hillary Putnam, John Rawls, and Richard Rorty) and the application of these positions to the issues of pornography on the Internet (specifically feminist perspectives), abortion (including religious perspectives) and physician-assisted suicide. URL: <http://www.lcl.cmu.edu/CAAE/Home/Forum/ethics.html>

Perseus Project, beta test site; Gregory Crane (Harvard), editor in chief, funded by Annenberg/CPB, published as Perseus 1.0: Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece, Yale University Press.

Intermedia Courseware Development Project. Funded by Annenberg/CPB Project, the Carnegie Trust of New York, and Apple Computer; coordinated by Dr. Robert Cavalier, Director, Center for the Design of Educational Computing, Carnegie-Mellon University. January, 1990 -- January, 1991.


Teaching Experience – Graduate Courses

Guest lecturer, student supervision, Erasmus Mundus Master's Program in Applied Ethics. NTNU (Trondheim). September 17-21, 2007.

Guest lecturer, student supervision, Erasmus Mundus Master's Program in Applied Ethics. Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. December, 2006.

Graduate Course, “Bridging Cultures: Computer Ethics, Culture, and Information and Communication Technologies.” Trondheim, Norway, May 15 – June 8, 2005. (see <www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php>) 4 European Course Transfer System credits.

Hauptseminar, “Cross-cultural Approaches to Internet Research Ethics: Basic Issues and Emerging Guidelines.” Trier University, in affiliation with the Departments of Media Studies (Medienwissenschaften) and Chinese Studies (Sinologie). October 25-December 17, 2004.

M.A. Intensive course, “Future World/s?: Cultural Homogeneity / Hybridity / Diversity Online.” IT-University, Copenhagen, Denmark. November 24 – Dec. 19, 2003.

Ph.D. course, “Internet Research Ethics: Foundations, Law and Guidelines, and Cross-cultural Perspectives.” IT-University, Copenhagen, Denmark. Oct. 27-31, 2003. (Course recognized for 4 European Course Transfer System credits: excellent student evaluations)

Graduate course, “Internet Research Ethics,” with Dag Elgesem (University of Bergen) and Chris Mann (Cambridge University). Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (Trondheim, Norway). June 3-6, 2002. See <http://www.hf.ntnu.no/fil/anvendt_etikk/eng/internet_ethics.htm>.


Teaching Experience - Drury University

Alpha Seminar: the American Experience (a multi-disciplinary course also responsible for development of writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills)

Values Analysis (an interdisciplinary applied ethics course)

Global Futures (capstone course of the Global Perspectives 21 curriculum)

Freshman Studies (a two-semester/4 semester hour course covering the Western intellectual and literary tradition)

Introduction to Philosophy

Introduction to Ethics

Introduction to Logic

History of Philosophy (three-semester sequence)

Introduction to Religious Studies

Religions of the World: Eastern

Religions of the World: Middle-Eastern

Philosophy of Religion

Philosophy of Science

Women and Religion

Seminars, Honors, Independent Study, Team-teaching

SciFi/Cy/Phi. (Science Fiction/Cyberspace/Philosophy). Honors, Spring, 2002.

“Travelers in the Dark,” from Qoholeth to Kierkegaard: Existentialism and the Search for Meaning. Honors, Fall, 2000.

ARCH 595: Senior Studio (with Bruce Moore, Acting Director, Hammons School of Architecture). Spring, 2000.

“Visual Design: Epistemology / Aesthetics / Applications / Experiment” (Honors)

“Nietzsche, Christ, and Antichrist” (an Honors course on Nietzsche)

“Sex, Webs, Texts, and Lies” (an Honors course on Plato, Nietzsche, and Postmodernism)

Critical Theory and Postmodernism (Honors)

Religion, Technology and Science (Honors)

Environmental Ethics

Kant’s Epistemology

Vertical Studio (team-taught with Christi Lewis, Hammons School of Architecture)

Design Studio (team-taught with Bruce Moore, Hammons School of Architecture)


College/University Service - Drury University

Student Affairs Committee, 2008-2009.

Faculty workshop, Teaching Critical Thinking in Alpha Seminar (GP 21). 7. August 2008.

"Norway: Vikings, Christians, and Oil, oh my!" Global Insight Luncheon Series, Drury University, April 25, 2007.

Faculty workshop, "Integrating Sustainability in the GP 21 Curriculum," part of the faculty workshop series on "Sustainability in the Curriculum." Drury University, 29 March 2007.

President, Drury Chapter, AAUP. Spring, 2007.

Faculty workshop, Teaching Critical Thinking in Alpha Seminar (GP 21). 17. August 2006.

Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2002-2005.

GP21 Council, 2001-present.

Authored Chapter 3, “Early Contributions to Building Connections on Campus” of The Drury Story, a volume on how Drury came to be the rather remarkable place we are. My task was to provide an overview of the interdisciplinary programs such as Freshman Studies, Contemporary Issues, Women’s Studies, Environmental Studies, and the Honors Program and how these laid the groundwork and fostered the interdisciplinary dialogues and experiences that became central for the development of GP21 as well as the exceptionally collegial place we know Drury to be.

(With Richard Schur) “Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Healing Wounds & Building Bridges,” Chaplain Lunch Series, March 10, 2004.

Coordinator, presenter on “Research Ethics,” as part of the Ethics-Across-the-Curriculum series directed by Dr. Lisa Esposito. With Robin Miller and Greg Eastman. April 12, 2004

Faculty Affairs (1998-2000: Chair/Secretary, 1999-2000)

Search Committee, Director, Center for Faculty Excellence (Spring, 2000)

Search Committee, faculty position in Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (Spring, 2000)

Coordinator, “Teaching with Technology” workshop (summer, 1999)

Planning Committee, Faculty Development Center (1999 - present)

Director, Undergraduate/Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Conference (1997 - 1999)

Assessment Committees: Values Analysis, Critical Thinking (1996 - present)

Academic Computing Advisory Committee (1996 - present)

Search Committee, Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. 1996-7

Global Perspectives 21 Executive Committee (1995 - present)

Facilitator, “Values Analysis: Faculty Summer Seminar,” May 13 - Aug. 4, 1997

Asian Studies Committee (1994-present)

Co-facilitator, Faculty Summer Seminar on Values Analysis, Drury College, June 26-July 7, 1995

Chair, Values Analysis Committee (1994-present)

Faculty Affairs Committee (1994-1996)

Academic Computing Committee (1994-1996)

Chair, Academic Affairs Committee (1993-94)

Search Committee, Director, Hammons School of Architecture (1994)

Women's Studies Advisory Committee (1992-93)

Orientation Leader Selection, Orientation Planning Committees (1994)

Director, Freshman Studies Program (1990 - 1995)

Chair, Academic Computing Committee (1989-90)

Faculty Development Committee (1987-90)

Think Tank (on the relationships between theory and practice in liberal arts/professional education) (1989-90)

Co-facilitator, “Classical Ethics and Contemporary Developmental Theories.” A five-day class, co-taught with Prof. Grace Lane (Education Department,Drury College), as part of the Faculty Summer Seminar, Drury College. May 15-19, 1989.

Coordinator for campus visit by Professor Peter Heywood, Biology Department, Brown University; convocation series lecture on “Biotechnology and Hunger in the Third World,” April 20, 1989.

Mission and Goals Committee (1989)

Honors Theses - Director and/or committee member: 1988 - present


Recent Community and Professional Service:

Board of Directors, Southwest Teachers Credit Union (Springfield, Missouri), 2004-2007

Elder, South Street Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 2004-7.



References: a copy of my academic dossier, including transcripts and letters of reference, may be requested from: Career Counseling and Placement Service, Pennsylvania State University, 408 Boucke Bldg., University Park, PA 16802.


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