[Sigifp-l] Election for chair-elect

[Oltmann, Shannon M]

Hello everyone. We have two candidates for SIG-IEP chair-elect, John Burgess and Bryce Newell. I've copied their information below for your review. In addition, it is also available in the online poll.

Please follow this link: https://uky.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9mdgze73MdUwwnj to vote for one of the candidates. Please only vote one time. Voting must be completed by midnight (Eastern) on 3/24/17. (You may need to copy and paste the link rather than clicking on it.)

Candidates listed alphabetically:

John Burgess. John T. F. Burgess is an Assistant Professor and Distance Education Coordinator at the University of Alabama's School of Library and Information Studies. Building on his background in virtue ethics, Burgess' research focuses on the ethics of sustainability and questions of intergenerational justice in an LIS context. Along with Emily Knox, he is co-editing a textbook on the foundations of information ethics for ALA Neal-Schuman Publishers. This book is designed to provide students without a philosophy background the context they need to contribute to ethics research and policy creation in an informed way. As a member of the IEEE Subcommittee on Classical Ethics in ICT, Burgess is participating in the broader IEEE Ethically Aligned Design initiative. This initiative is designed to raise awareness of ethical issues surrounding the development of artificially intelligent and autonomous systems and to develop best practices for creating those systems ethically. In related service, he is the co-convener for the ALISE Information Ethics SIG the goal of which is to advocate for the importance of ethics education in iSchools and LIS programs. At the University of Alabama, he developed and teaches a course in information ethics for information professionals, and co-founded the Policy and Ethics Group to foster greater collaboration among faculty interested in information ethics and policy related teaching, research, and service projects. Burgess lives in Mobile, Alabama, USA with his wife and four sweet cats who dislike each other, and in his spare time enjoys playing and designing tabletop roleplaying games.

Bryce Newell. Bryce Newell is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) at Tilburg University (in the Netherlands). Beginning in August 2017, he will be an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Science (iSchool) at the University of Kentucky. Bryce earned his Ph.D. (Information Science) at the University of Washington Information School and his J.D. (Law) from the University of California, Davis School of Law. Bryce is a former Google Policy Fellow, a licensed attorney (California), and a documentary filmmaker. His recent and on-going research examines the use of information and communication technologies by undocumented migrants during periods of clandestine migration and border-crossing into the United States, the criminalization of voyeurism and non-consensual pornography, and the legal and social impacts of police surveillance, citizen video, and liberal freedom of information laws on personal privacy. His forthcoming book, entitled Policing, Visibility, and Power: Body-Worn Cameras, Citizen Video, and Institutional Transparency in Two American Police Departments (under advance contract with The MIT Press) is based on a multi-year empirical study of body-worn camera adoption by two municipal police departments in Washington State. The book draws on qualitative fieldwork, interviews, quantitative surveys, and legal research to critically examine how body cameras, citizen (bystander) video, and freedom of information law impact police work, promote police transparency and accountability, and increase the visibility of both police officers and civilians alike.


Dr. Shannon M. Oltmann
Assistant Professor
School of Information Science
College of Communication & Information
University of Kentucky
shannon.oltmann at uky.edu<mailto:shannon.oltmann at uky.edu>
320 Lucille Little Library
Lexington KY 40506
859-257-0788
859-257-4205 (fax)

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