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Nicholas Proferes, a Postdoctoral Scholar at the College of Information Studies’ Ethics and Values in Design Lab, has accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Kentucky, effective this fall. Dr. Proferes joined the University of Maryland in August 2015. While at the iSchool, Proferes has been an integral part of the Ethics and Values in Design Lab, researching how developers saw social implications of their work and the values that their work would promote.

Check out the news here: https://ischool.umd.edu/news/fond-farewell-nicholas-proferes

A second paper from my project with Daniel Greene, “Platform privacies: Governance, collaboration, and the different meanings of “privacy” in iOS and Android development” has been published in New Media & Society.

I’m excited to share a new paper authored with Daniel Greene, “Linking platforms, practices, and developer ethics: Levers for privacy discourse in mobile application development”. It was recently published in the Journal of Business Ethics.

A new paper with collaborators Anne Bowser, Elizabeth Warrick, and Jennifer Preece, “Accounting for Privacy in Citizen Science: Ethical Research in a Context of Openness,” has been accepted for CSCW 2017.

With multi-campus collaborators, we’ve been awarded two new grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation:

• Search Among Secrets will create search engines for large personal datasets (such as email) that respect context-appropriate privacy norms. With Doug Oard and Jimmy Lin.
• The Development of Ethical Cultures in Computer Security Research will use historical and bibliometric methods to understand the development of ethical cultures in cybersecurity. With Megan Finn, Jevin West, and Franziska Roesner.