Friday,
April
29, 2005
Montclair
State University
Upper Montclair, New Jersey
We live in an "information society." Information and new information technologies have become essential to our social, economic, and political interactions. The roundtable provides an opportunity to learn about and discuss the ethical issues surrounding information privacy, intellectual property, intellectual freedom, and censorship. The roundtable grew out of a debate in Library Quarterly between Doyle and Fricke-Mathiesen-Fallis on the issue of censorship and access to information.
The
focus of
this year's roundtable will be Intellectual
Property. Siva
Vaidhyanathan, author of The
Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is
Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System and Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of
Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity, will be
the keynote speaker.
The
sessions from 9:30 to 12:00 will take place in the Special Collections
Room, Sprague Library. The sessions from 1:30 to 5:00 will take
place in the Philosophy and Religion Seminar Room, 430 Dickson Hall.
The
roundtable is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be
served.
Introduction:
The
roundtable was supported by funds from the Department of Philosophy and
Religion and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair
State University. The
organizers
of this roundtable are David Benfield (benfieldd@mail.montclair.edu), Tony Doyle (tdoyle@hunter.cuny.edu),
Don Fallis (fallis@email.arizona.edu),
Kay Mathiesen (mathiesenk@mail.montclair.edu),
and Catherine Womack (cwomack@bridgew.edu). For further information, contact the organizers
or write to:
Information
Ethics Roundtable
c/o Kay Mathiesen
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Montclair State University
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
Roundtable
Website for 2005: http://www.sir.arizona.edu/ier/ier05.htm
Roundtable Website for 2004: http://www.sir.arizona.edu/ier/ier04.htm
Roundtable Website for 2003: http://www.sir.arizona.edu/ier/ier03.htm
This page was last updated on April 11, 2005.