Upcoming/Recent Lectures, Conference Presentations, Workshops, Consultancies
Forthcoming/Recent Publications


Upcoming/Recent Lectures, Conference Presentations, Workshops, Consultancies

  • Cultural Dimensions of New Technologies, "Is the Knowledge World Flat?" Paris,  24-25 November 2008.

  • Plenary address, The Ethics of Mobile Media.  Conference on "Mobile Communication and the Ethics of Social Networking.  Budapest, Sept. 25-27, 2008.

  • Keynote address, Persons, Privacy, Community: East-West Perspectives on Technology and the Good life.  Workshop, The Good Life in a Technological Culture, University of Twente, The Netherlands, June 12-14, 2008.
  • Plenary lecture, Philosophy of the Information Society' Philosophie der Informationgesellschaft, 2007 International Wittgenstein Symposium. Kirchberg, Austria, August 5-11.

  • Plenary lecture, Zweiter internationaler Kongress, Kulturwissenschaftliche Technikforschung [Second international congress, Cultural-Scientific Technology Research], University of Hamburg, Germany, 1-3 June, 2007.

  • Information Ethics Fellow Lecture, Center for Information Policy Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. November 13, 2006. Video: <http://129.89.43.24:8080/ramgen/classes/CIPR/charlesess.rm>
    Final text version: < http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/docs/ess.pdf>

  • An Impending ICE (Information and Computing Ethics) Age? North American Computers and Philosophy Conference. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. 10-12 August 2006. video of lecture archived here

  • Conference Co-Chair(with Fay Sudweeks) 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.

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

  • Keynote speaker, Oxford Symposium on Ethics, Oxford University, December 8-9, 2005.

  • Graduate Course and Summer Workshop: Bridging Cultures: Computer Ethics, Culture, and Information and Communication Technologies.(With May Thorseth and Knut Rolland [NTNU], and Dag Elgesem [Bergen]). Trondheim, Norway, May 15 - June 8, 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.

  • Commentator, The Internet, Buddhism, Shinto, Shamanism, and new religions, 19th World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Tokyo, Japan, 24 - 30 March, 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 4-5, 2005.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • (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>.

  • Can the Local Reshape the Global? Ethical Imperatives for Humane Intercultural Communication Online - Views from the Centers and the Margins, International ICIE (International Consortium for Information Ethics) Symposium: Localizing the Internet: Ethical Issues in Intercultural Perspective. 4-6 October, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.

  • Cross-Cultural Communication Online: How Diverse Cultural Values and Communicative Preferences Shape Users and Uses of Computer-mediated Communication Technologies, August 3, 2004, - Posner Center Board Room, Carnegie Mellon University.

  • Understanding Internet Research Ethics - June 16-19, 2004. Conference sponsored by the New Media Center, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder.

  • Ethical decision-making and Internet research (PDF file): Recommendations from the AoIR ethics working committee. HTML version.

  • Conference co-chair, with Fay Sudweeks, CATaC'04 (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication), "Off the Shelf or From the Ground Up? ICTs and cultural marginalization, homogenization and hybridization". (The fourth biennial CATaC conference, begun in London, 1998, with Fay Sudweeks.)

  • Workshop facilitator (with Dan Burk), The Law and Ethics of Online Research,Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference. Berkeley, CA. April 20-23, 2004.

  • (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.

  • "Technology in a multicultural and global society" conference organized by 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 9-10, 2003.

  • "Internet Research Ethics," Pre-conference workshop, AoIR 4.0 conference, Toronto, October 15 (16-19), 2003.

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

  • "Conducting ethical socio-economic research," RESPECT Project Conference (supported by the European Commission's Information Society Technologies Programme), Budapest, June 11-12, 2003.

  • "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.

  • "Open Source Ethics? Pluralism, Cross-Cultural Communication, and Global Ethics." Invited presentation, Information Ethics Group, Oxford Computing Laboratory, Oxford, UK. March 26, 2003.

  • Culture, Technology, Communication: Current and Future State of the Art?, Invited address to the Humanities Education Research Group (HERG), Open University, UK, March 25, 2003.

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

  • "Multimedial Cognition," with Willard McCarty (Senior Lecturer, Humanities Computing, Kings College, London).

  • Consultant, 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 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.

  • Graduate course, "Internet Research Ethics," with Dag Elgesem (University of Bergen) and Chris Mann (Cambridge University), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. June 3-6, 2002.

  • 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.

  • 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).

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

  • Keynote speaker, "Liberal Arts and Distance Education: Can Socratic Virtue (arete) 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.

  • Review Coordinator, "Internet and Culture" track, Association of Internet Researchers (aoir) 3.0, Maastricht, Netherlands, October 13-16, 2002.

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

  • Consultant, American Bible Society: "Best Practices Internet Project." February, 2002.

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

  • Workshop on Academic Integrity and the Web. Organized by the Center for Academic Integrity (Duke University), funded by a grant from the Hewlett Foundation. October 18, 2001. College Station, TX. (Policy recommendations from the workshop will be published by the Center for Academic Integrity.)

  • "Why We Don't Want Privacy on the Internet," The La Roche College Center for the Study of Ethics, cosponsored by the Carnegie Mellon University Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics. October 24, 2001.

  • Preliminary Report, Ethics Working Committee, Association of Internet Researchers. October 10, 2001.

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

  • "Culture / Communication / Technology: computer-mediated communication or computer-mediated colonization in the "electronic global village"? University of Paderborn (Germany), May 25, 2001.

  • "The Impact of the Internet on our Moral Lives," panel presentation, American Philosophical Association Central, May 3-5, Minneapolis, MN.

  • "Introduction to Philosophy: an East/West Approach," presentation (and panel organizer) for plenary session on "Comparative Approaches to Teaching Philosophy and Political Science," ASIANetwork, annual conference, Cleveland, OH, April 22, 2001.

  • Is There a Public Sphere in the Electronic Global Village? Philosophical and Cultural Questions.
    Or: How Do You Eat Tom Yum Kung?
    Opening Presentation for:



    Theoretical, Ethical, and Political Dimensions of the Public Sphere in the Age of the Internet
    A Workshop/Colloquium at Ohio University, Scripps School of Journalism, April 6, 2001, with
    Mark Poster (Department of History, University of California Irvine)
    Steve Jones (Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago)
    Abstracts and audio files of the presentations are available at the PublicPrivacy website

  • Panel convenor and presenter, "Critical Approaches to Bible Study in the Age of New Media: Lessons from the American Bible Society's 'New Paradigms' Project," Central States Society for Biblical Literature, Kansas City, MO, April 2, 2001.

  • "Culture / Communication / Technology: computer-mediated communication or computer-mediated colonization in the 'electronic global village'?" as part of the Monday "Open Minds" series, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 5 February 2001.

Forthcoming/Recent Publications

  • Digital Media Ethics. With a Foreword by Luciano Floridi. (Digital Media and Society Series.) Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009.

  • (with Mia Consalvo, Robert Burnett, co-editors), The Blackwell Handbook of Internet Studies.  Wiley-Blackwell.  Projected publication date: October, 2009.

  • (with May Thorseth), Global Information and Computing Ethics," in Luciano Floridi (ed.), A Philosophical Introduction to Computer Ethics. Cambridge University Press.
  • Ethical Dimensions of New Technologies and Media.  In Debashish Munshi, George Cheney, Steve May (eds.), ICA Handbook of Communication Ethics. Routledge/Lawrence Earlbaum, 2009.
  • Always on? Ethical and political dimensions of mobile communication technologies. In Kristóf Nyíre (ed.), Mobile Communications and the Ethics of Social Networking (provisional title).  Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 2009.

  • Special Issue, "Floridi and His Critics," Ethics and Information Technology 10 (2-3, 2008): 89-96.

  • Special Issue, "Kant and Information Ethics ," Ethics and Information Technology 10 (4: December, 2008), 205-211.

  • In Mediated Spaces (Review of Marika Lüder's being in mediated spaces, PhD thesis), Norsk Medietidsskrift [The Norwegian Journal of Media Studies] 15 (no. 3: 2008), 264-267.
  • 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.
  • (with Elizabeth Buchanan) Internet Research Ethics,' in K. Himma and H. Tavani (eds.), 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 Asiastische und Komparative Philosophie, Neue Folge, Band 2).  Berlin: Parerga Verlag, 2008.
  • East-West Perspectives on Privacy, Ethical Pluralism and Global Information Ethics.  In Herbert Hrachovec, Alois Pichler (eds.), Philosophy of the Information Society, pp. 185-203.  (Vol. 7, Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society.) Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 
  • When the Solution becomes the Problem: Cultures and Individuals as Obstacles to Online Learning (opening chapter). In Marie-Noelle Lamy and Robin Goodfellow (eds), Learning Cultures in Online Education. Continuum Press, 2008.

  • Co-edited with Soraj Hongladarom, Chulalongkorn University, Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives. IGI Global, 2007.

  • Internet Research Ethics. In Adam Joinson, Katelyn McKenna, Tom Postmes, and Ulf-Dietrich Reips (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology, 487-501. Oxford University Press, 2007.

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

  • Déclinaisons culturelles en ligne : observation 'de l'autre'," special issue of Etudes De Linguistique Appliquèe (Paris: Didier Klienkensick), La culture ou les cultures à l'école ou ailleurs / D'autres espaces pour les cultures, edited by Clara Farrao. No. 146 (avril, mai, juin 2007).

  • 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).

  • 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.

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

  • (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, 2006, 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.

  • Japanese translation of Ethical Pluralism and Global Information Ethics.In Toru Nishigaki & Tadashi Takenouchi (eds.), Kokusai Joho Rinrigaku - Intercultural information ethics. Tokyo: NTT Publishing. 2006.

  • 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 informè 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.

  • 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�'6.

  • Special issue (co-editor with Elizabeth Buchanan), The Ethics of E-Games. International Review of Information Ethics, Vol. 2/2005.

  • 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.

  • With Fay Sudweeks, Communication, Culture and Praxis,' special issue of Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication, Vol. 15 (1).

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Computer-Mediated Colonization, the Renaissance, and Educational Imperatives for an Intercultural Global Village. In Robert Cavalier (ed.), The Internet and Our Moral Lives,161-193. 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. 

  • "The Cathedral or the Bazaar? The AoIR document on Internet Research Ethics as an Exercise in Open Source Ethics," in Mia Consolvo (ed), Internet Research Annual Volume 1: Selected Papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conferences 2000-2002. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.

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

  • "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.

  • "Final Report, Ethics Working Committee, Association of Internet Researchers," in Elizabeth Buchanan (ed.), Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies. Hershey: Idea Group Publishing, 2003.

  • "Beyond Contemptus Mundi and Cartesian Dualism: Western Resurrection of the BodySubject and (re)New(ed) Coherencies with Eastern Approaches to Life/Death," in Gunther Wollfahrt and Hans Georg-Moeller (eds.), Death East and West. Chora Verlag: Munich, 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.

  • "Philosophy of Computer-Mediated Communication." 2003. In Luciano Floridi (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Information and Computing. Oxford: Blackwell

  • "Are We There Yet? Emerging Ethical Guidelines for Online Research." 2003. In Sarina Chen and Jon Hall (eds.), Online Social Research: Methods, Issues, and Ethics. New York: Peter Lang.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • "Liberation in cyberspace ... Or computer-mediated colonization?" Introduction to "Global cultures: collisions and communication," special issue of Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication, Vol. 12, Nos. 3 & 4, 2002.

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

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

  • Coeditor (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).

  • Editor, with Fay Sudweeks. 2001. Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. See Michel Minou's review, Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies.

  • "Introduction," Ethics and Information Technology 4(3): 177-188. 2001. Special issue on Internet Research Ethics, co-edited with Helen Nissenbaum.

  • Electronic Global Village or McWorld? The Paradoxes of Computer-Mediated Cosmopolitanism and the Quest for Universal Values. In Rolf Elberfeld, Johann Kreuzer, John Milford, and Günter Wohlfart (eds.) Ethik: Ost und West [Ethics: East and West], München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. Based on conference presentation, Akadémie du Midi, 7 June, 2001.

  • 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 Media and Society, 3(3: September). 2001.

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

  • "Wag the dog? Online Conferencing and Teaching," Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 34, no. 3 (2000).

  • Coeditor (with Fay Sudweeks), special issue of AI and Society, "Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication." Vol. 14 (1), 2000.

  • Coeditor (with Fay Sudweeks), special issue of Javnost-the Public, "Global Cultures: Communities, Communication and Transformation." Vol 6, 1999.

  • "Prophetic Communities On-line?" in a special issue on "Computer Culture and Religion," Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture 34:2 (Spring, 1999). Pp. 87-100.

  • Coeditor (with Fay Sudweeks), special issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication, "Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication." Vol. 8 (3&4), 1998. (http://www.cios.org/www/ejcmain.htm).

  • 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.

  • "The Internet and the Web: How Asian-Friendly?" THE ASIANetwork EXCHANGE: A Newsletter for Teaching about Asia, Vol VI:3 (February, 1999), 12-14.

  • "Two CD-ROM resources for Asian Studies"(a review of On Common Ground: World Religions in America (Diana L. Eck and the Pluralism Project at Harvard University, Columbia University Press) and the multimedia I Ching (Princeton University Press, 1996), THE ASIANetwork EXCHANGE: A Newsletter for Teaching about Asia.

  • Dr. Ess contributed both video and text resources on the topic "Religious Perspectives on Abortion" to 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.

  • "Cosmopolitan Ideal or Cybercentrism? A Critical Examination of the Underlying Assumptions of "The Electronic Global Village." American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Computers and Philosophy 97:2 (Spring, 1998), 48-51.

  • "Is There Hope for Democracy in Cyberspace?" in: Technology and Democracy: User Involvement in Information Technology, David Hakken and Knut Haukelid, eds. Oslo, Norway: Center for Technology and Culture, 1997. Pp. 93-111.

  • "Prophetic Communities On-line?" included in a special issue on communication for human dignity, Church and Society: the Journal of Just Thoughts (Presbyterian Church, USA), November/December 1997. Pp. 70-79.

  • "Values Analysis: an Experiment in Interdisciplinary Ethics," American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching, Fall, 1997. Pp. 115-120.

  • Editor, Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1996.  
    (My essay included in this volume, "The Political Computer: Democracy, CMC, and Habermas" (197-230) is critically reviewed by     Emma Rooksby, as part of the Women on the Verge of New Technology Conference.)

  • Review of The Modern Subject: Conceptions of the Self in Classical German Philosophy, Karl Ameriks and Dieter Sturma, eds. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1995), in Canadian Philosophical Reviews/Revue Canadienne de Comptes Rendus en Philosophie, XVI: 4 (August, 1996) 237-239.

  • "Modernity and Postmodernism in `Hypertext Notes'," EJournal (6:3 [July, 1996])

  • Guest Editor, special issue of Computer Mediated Communication Magazine , "Free Speech and Censorship on the Internet," January, 1996.

  • "Reading Adam and Eve: Re-Visions of the Myth of Women's Subordination to Man," in: Violence against Women and Children: a Christian Theological Sourcebook, eds. Marie M. Fortune, Carol J. Adams. New York: Continuum Press, 1995.

  • "The Political Computer: Hypertext, Democracy, and Habermas," in: Hyper/Text/Theory, ed. George Landow. Baltimore, MD: the Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

  • "Kant and Analogy: Texts and Interpretation" (with Walter Gulick). Special issue, "Kant Studies," Ultimate Reality and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding 17(2): June, 1994, 89-99.

  • Ess has also published numerous reviews of books in philosophy of technology, feminist philosophy, the German philosopher Immanual Kant, contemporary Continental philosophy, and computer resources for academics -- e.g., a review of a hypertext document by David Kolb for The Eastgate Quarterly.)