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Posted on October 19, 2016 1 Comment
TL;DR I’m recruiting PhD students – particularly those interested in social computing, online communities, ethics, law and policy, and/or fandom. As you may know, I am an assistant professor in the (shiny and new!) Department of Information Science at the University of Colorado in Boulder. This is an exciting place to be, because not only do we have […]
Posted on February 26, 2016 3 Comments
For years, I’ve been bringing up the fan fiction site Archive of Our Own (AO3) to folks in the HCI community, as a cool example of two things: (1) an amazingly successful open source project designed and built mostly by women; and (2) thoughtful incorporation of existing community norms into design. That last one in particular […]
Posted on November 11, 2015 Leave a Comment
Do you understand the terms that you “click to agree” to when you post content on sites like Facebook, Craigslist, or DeviantART? It’s okay, neither does anyone else! But whether blog posts, photographs, or social media status updates, you own the copyright in your original content – which means that in order for one of […]
Posted on March 17, 2015 Leave a Comment
A few years ago, I posted the following message to Facebook: I’m participating in a scavenger hunt, and my team has a list of things that we might need to complete unclaimed items: – a Stormtrooper uniform – a fireman – a snake – a string quartet – 4 plastic big wheels – a church […]
Posted on December 3, 2014 2 Comments
This piece originally appeared in an issue of XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students in 2013. Due to the ACM paywall, I am reproducing it here (as allowable under their copyright terms!), but you can also see the original, nicely formatted version by following the Authorizer link on my Publications page. Feel free to cite […]
Posted on October 29, 2014 6 Comments
Update: This paper was chosen as a Best Paper at CSCW 2015. You can download the paper here as well as the slides from my presentation here. Copyright is a difficult area of the law, but now with so many of us creating content online, it actually matters for normal people and not just lawyers […]
Posted on October 7, 2014 1 Comment
In the past year, I’ve been picking on LinkedIn a bit for the copyright licensing requirements in their Terms of Service. When talking about my work I routinely throw up a slide with this block of text as a visual demonstration of how unreadable TOS can be, and then explain worst case scenarios of what […]
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