Figure/Ground latest interview is with Professor Charles M. Ess. Dr. Ess is one of the foremost international scholars on Ethics and the Internet. He is currently a professor/researcher in The Department for Information and Media Studies at Aarhus University, and was a Distinguished Professor at Drury University in the US. He has made significant contributions within such fields as Internet research, with emphases on culturally-variable elements of Information and Communication Technology and Computer-Mediated Communication, ICTs and democratization, ICTs and religion, Internet research ethics, as well as Information and Computing Ethics – with an emphasis on cultural perspectives. In addition, Dr. Ess was a leading scholar in the creation of the biennial conference series CATaC, (CulturalAttitudes towards Technology and Communication, 1998 and onwards), and from 2007 he has been president of the Association of Internet Researchers.
He has been a guest professor at a number of important universities around the world, has published several articles and books, and supervised numerous PhD students.
URL: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/charles-ess/<http://figureground.ca/interviews/charles-ess/>
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