Information Ethics Roundtable

Spring, 2010

Bridgewater State College, Massachusetts

This Year's Topic: Consumer Health Information

For further information, contact the program chair:

Catherine Womack
Department of Philosophy
Bridgewater State College
CWomack (at) bridgew (dot) edu
 

About the Roundtable:

We live in an "information society." Information and new information technologies have become essential to our social, economic, and political interactions. The roundtable brings together researchers from several different disciplines (philosophy, information science, communications, public administration, anthropology, law, etc.) to discuss the ethical issues surrounding access to information, information privacy, intellectual property, intellectual freedom, and censorship. The first Information Ethics Roundtable in 2003 grew out of a debate in Library Quarterly between Doyle and Frické-Mathiesen-Fallis on the issue of "Censorship and Access to Information." Every year since then, the roundtable has focused on another important area of information ethics.

Previous Roundtables:

• Information Ethics Roundtable 2009 on "Misinformation and Disinformation"
• Information Ethics Roundtable 2008 on "Information Ethics and its Applications"
• Information Ethics Roundtable 2007 on "Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Property"
• Information Ethics Roundtable 2006 on "Secrecy"
• Information Ethics Roundtable 2005 on "Intellectual Property"
• Information Ethics Roundtable 2004 on "Privacy"
• Information Ethics Roundtable 2003