Curriculum Vitae

Charles M. Ess

Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies

Professor, Philosophy and Religion

Drury University900 N. Benton Ave.

Springfield, MO 65802 Springfield, MO 65802

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Homepage: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html

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Education:

Ph.D.-1983: Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University

M.A.- 1975: Philosophy (minor in Greek), Penn State

B.A.- 1973: Philosophy and German, Texas Christian University (graduated with university honors, philosophy departmental honors, Phi Beta Kappa)

Dissertation: Analogy in the Critical Works: Kant s Transcendental Philosophy as Analectical Thought (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1983.)

Academic Positions:

2009-2012: Professor with specific responsibilities (med sarlige opgaver), Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.

2007: Visiting [Full] Professor, Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. (fall semester).

Professeur Invite (guest professor), Institute Universitaire de Formation des Maitres (IUFM) (a unit of le laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en didactique education et formation [LIRDEF]), Centre Universitaire Vauban, Nimes, France. June.

2006-2007 Information Ethics Fellow, the Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

2005-2008: Professor II, in affiliation with the Programme for Applied Ethics, Globalization Program, Norwegian Science and Technical University (NTNU).

2005-2006: Erasmus Mundus Scholar, Masters Course in Applied Ethics (NTNU, Linkoping University, Sweden, and Utrecht University, The Netherlands funded by the European Commission.

2005-2008: Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, American Association for the Advancement of Science (Chair, 2007-2008)

2005-2007: Vice-President, Association for Internet Researchers (AoIR) (President, 2007-2009).

2003: Visiting [Full] Professor, Department of Digital Aesthetics & Communication, IT-University, Copenhagen (sabbatical leave, fall)

2003-present: Editorial Board, new media and society (Sage)

2003-2009: Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Drury University

2002-present: Research Associate, Information Ethics Group, Oxford Computing Laboratory

2002-2005: Academic Advisory Panel, Pew Internet and American Life Project

2002-2005: Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, American Association for the Advancement of Science

2002-present: Editorial Board, Arts & Humanities in Higher Education (Sage)

2000-2005: Chair, Ethics Working Committee, Association of Internet Researchers

2001-2002: Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center, Drury University

1998-2000: Board member, ASIANetwork

1996-1998: Research Associate, Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics,

Carnegie Mellon University (sabbatical leave, fall, 1996)

1995-2001: Chair, Philosophy and Religion Department, Drury College

1994: Tenure, promotion to Professor, Drury College

1988-1994: Associate Professor, Drury College

1986-1988: Assistant Professor, Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa.

(Leave replacement)

1980-1986: Assistant Professor, Rocky Mountain College, Billings, Montana.

(Tenure, leave of absence approved, 1986; promotion to

associate approved, 1988)

Languages: German (fluent); good reading, oral comprehension in French; fair reading ability Danish, Norwegian; modest reading ability classical and koine Greek.

Works in progress:

Supervision: Stine Lombard, Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University.

Supervision: Tasha Buch (Danish Pedagogical University), "Educational computer games with trans-national potential: Developing a trans-national framework for educational computer game design."

Supervision: Rikke Frank Joergensen (Danish Institute for Human Rights), "The Internet: renegotiating public and private."

2006: Evaluation Committee, First Opponent, PhD defense: Janne Bromseth, "Genre trouble and the body that mattered : negotiations of gender, sexuality and identity on a Scandinavian mailing list community for lesbian and bisexual women." Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Faculty of Arts, Norwegian Science and Technical University (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. Successfully defended, 16. June 2006.

PhD preliminary examiner (information ethics), Malardalen University, Sweden.

PhD Examiner, Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia.

2005-2006: PhD co-supervisor (with Espen Aarseth), IT-University, Copenhagen. Miguel Sicart, "The Ethics of Computer Game Design." Successfully defended, 8. December 2006.

2003: PhD Examiner, Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia.

PhD Examiner, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia.

2002: PhD Examiner, School of Communications and Multimedia, Edith Cowan University (Mount Lawley, Western Australia)

Recent Publications:

Books

Digital Media Ethics, Polity Press, 2009.

Editor, with Soraj Hongladarom, Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives. IGI Global, 2007.

Technical Editor, Existentialism for Dummies, by Christopher Panza, Gregory Gale. Wiley, 2008.

Editor, with May Thorseth, Technology in a Multicultural and Global Society. Programme for Applied Ethics: Publication Series No. 6. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, 2005.

Editor, Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2004.

Editor, with Fay Sudweeks, Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village. Preface by Susan Herring. SUNY Press Series on Computer-Mediated Communication. (June, 2001)

Editor, Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996. Includes my Thoughts along the I-Way: Philosophy and the Emergence of Computer-Mediated Communication (Introduction) (pp. 1-12), and The Political Computer: Democracy, CMC, and Habermas (pp.

25 27, 2008. Organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and T-Mobile Hungary.

Invited keynote address, Persons, Privacy, Community: East-West Perspectives on Technology and the Good Life. The Good Life in a Technological Culture. Workshop at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, June 12-14, 2008. Organized by Philip Brey and the New Media group, Philosophy Department, University of Twente.

Invited lecture/seminar, IT and Ethics: Globalization as both Problem and Solution," PhD student seminar, Globalization Program, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Trondheim, April 11, 2008.

Invited lecture, "Globalization and on-line communication," as part of a 1-day conference on Media Sociology: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University. 4 December 2007.

Invited lecture, Masters/PhD seminar, "Culture, Technology, Communication: From Computer-Mediated Colonization to Culturally-Sensitive Design for Cultural Diversity, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), Glasgow University. 19-20 November, 2008.

Guest lectures, "Culture and the Ethics of Online Design," for "Internet Communication" course, International Bachelor of Marketing and Management Communication Programme, Handelshojskolen, Arhus Universitet. 13 November, 2007.

"Kant and the Net: How Kantian philosophy applies to contemporary issues in e-Science, regulation, search engines, virtual reality, and democracy online." Opening Brown-Bag Seminar, Science, Technology and Medicine Network, Aarhus University. 3 October 2007.

Guest lecture, "Ethics and privacy in the internet age" for combined classes in Media Studies, Information Studies, interested faculty and students (e.g., philosophy). Aarhus University, 26 September 2007.

Guest lecturer, student supervision, Erasmus Mundus Master's Program in Applied Ethics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Trondheim, September 17-21, 2007.

Guest lecture, "Culture, Technology, Communication: From Computer-Mediated Colonization to Culturally-Sensitive Design for Cultural Diversity," Faculty network on globalization, Aarhus University. 7 September, 2007.

Invited plenary speaker, Philosophy of the Information Society - Philosophie der Informationsgesellschaft, 2007 International Wittgenstein Symposium. Kirchberg, Austria, August 5-11.

Invited plenary speaker, Zweiter internationaler Kongress Kulturwissenschaftliche Technikforschung [Second international congress, "Cultural-Scientific Technology Research"], University of Hamburg, Germany, 1-3 June, 2007.

Guest lecturer, student supervision, Erasmus Mundus Master's Program in Applied Ethics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Trondheim, 13-15 December, 2006.

Information Ethics Fellow Lecture, Center for Information Policy Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. November 13, 2006.

Video available online: Final text version: Invited participant, The ethical, legal and institutional issues of e-research, chaired by Bill Dutton, Director of the Oxford e-Social Science Project, Oxford Internet Institute; Research Methods Festival, sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council, Oxford Internet Institute and the Oxford Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford. 17-20 July, 2006. (Invitation declined because of schedule conflicts.)

Invited speaker, workshop on Privacy and Surveillance Technology Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ZiF (Center of Interdisciplinary Studies), University of Bielefeld. February 10-11, 2006.

Invited speaker, 2005 Conference of the Uehiro Foundation and Carnegie Council: University of Oxford Symposium on Ethics, Oxford University, December 8-9, 2005.

Keynote address, What should IRB members know about Internet research ethics? IRB Member Education Symposium, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, April 25, 2005.

Panel respondent, Japanese Religions and ICTs, 19th World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Tokyo, Japan, 30 March, 2005.

Invited lecture, Information Ethics: Local Approaches, Global Potentials? Or: Divergence, Convergence, and Ethical Pluralism as Maintaining Distinctive Cultural Identities and (quasi?)-universal Ethics (sponsored by the Uehiru Foundation for Ethics and Education), Tokyo University, March 22, 2005.

Plenary address, From Computer-Mediated Colonisation to Culturally-Aware ICT Usage and Design, Conference, Contenus culturels et didactique des langues : role des disciplines contributoires, hosted by ALDIDAC (Approche Linguistique et Didactique de la Difference Culturelle), Cergy Pontoise, France, March 11, 2005.

Invited keynote address, International Restrictions Affecting Internet Research: Conflicts, Risks, Resolutions? National Conference (Canada) of NCEHR/CNERH (National Council on Ethics in Human research / Conseil national d ethique en recherche chez l humain). Ottawa, Canada, March 5, 2005.

Invited keynote address, Information ethics: local approaches, global potentials?, Second Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference (AP-CAP), Bangkok, Thailand, January 7 - 9, 2005.

Invited lecture, Cross-cultural communication online: How Diverse Cultural Values and Communicative Preferences Shape Users and Uses of Computer-mediated Communication Technologies, Informatics Institute, Humboldt University, Berlin, December 16, 2004.

Invited commentary, International /Interdisciplinary Applied Ethics: The RESPECT Guidelines. RESPECT Project, workshop. European Commission. Brussels, January 21, 2004.

With Line Gullov Lundh, Research ethics guidelines for internet research a translation of Forskningsetiske retningslinjer for internettforskning. English translation approved by Den nasjonale forskningsetiske komite for samfunnsvitenskap og humaniora (NESH): 3. December 2003. Posted on the NESH website, .

Invited lecture, Who needs ethics? Cross-cultural approaches to legal and ethical aspects of online research. Seminar presentation, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen. December 3, 2003. (Slides online: .)

Invited lecture, From the Garden to Cyberspace and Back Again? (Re)new(ed) Perspectives on Embodiment, Identity, Ethics, and Community. Philosophy Department, Arhus University, December 2, 2003. (Slides online: .)

Invited lecture, Internet Research and Information Ethics: Issues, Cross-cultural Perspectives, Convergence and/or Divergence? Seminar presentation, Department of Media and Communication Studies, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden. November 12, 2003. (Slides online: .)

Invited lecture, Being In Place Out of Place Being Out of Place In Place: CMC, Globalization, and Emerging Hybridities as New Cosmopolitanisms? Technology in a Multicultural and Global Society, sponsored by the Programme for Applied Ethics and the Globalisation Project, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. Oct. 9, 2003. (Slides online: .)

Invited lecture, Information Ethics and Intercultural Communication, University of Canberra (in collaboration with the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics, Charles Sturt University, NSW), May 21, 2003. [CANCELED - SARS]

Invited lecture, Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication, University, Perth, Western Australia, May 19, 2003. [CANCELED - SARS]

Keynote speaker, Language, culture, hybridity: towards global citizenship. ASIA CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) Conference, Bangkok, Thailand. May 14-16, 2003. [CANCELED - SARS]

Invited lecture, Ethics and Intercultural Communication. Symposium, Philosophy Department, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. May 13, 2003. [CANCELED - SARS]

Invited lecture, Open Source Ethics? Pluralism, Cross-Cultural Communication, and Global Ethics. Information Ethics Group, Oxford Computing Laboratory, Oxford, UK. March 26, 2003.

Invited lecture, Cross-cultural Communication and Technology. Humanities Higher Education Research Group (HERG), Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. March 25, 2003.

Keynote speaker, Making common ground: Methodological and Ethical issues in Internet-research, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. May 30 June 2, 2002.

Invited lectures, Film & Media Studies, University of Copenhagen, University of Roskilde, IT-University Copenhagen, Denmark. May 27-29, 2002.

Keynote speaker, Liberal Arts and Distance Education: Can Socratic Virtue (aee and Confucius' Exemplary Person (junzi) Be Taught Online? Information Technologies and the Universities of Asia conference (sponsored by CALL Asia), Bangkok, Thailand, April 3-5, 2002.

Keynote speaker, Why We Don't Want Privacy on the Internet, The La Roche College Center for the Study of Ethics, co-sponsored by the Carnegie Mellon University Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics. October 24, 2001.

Keynote speaker, Public sphere and public discourse, opening presentation for Public Privacy: Theoretical, Ethical, and Political Dimensions of the Public Sphere in the Age of the Internet, Ohio University, 6 April 2001.

Invited lecture, Culture / Communication / Technology: computer-mediated communication or computer-mediated colonization in the electronic global village ? University of Paderborn (Germany), May 25, 2001.

Invited lecture, Computer-mediated Communication and Computer-mediated Culture: the Quest for Shared Values in an Electronic Global Village, Academie du Midi / Institut fur Philosophie: Ethics East-West Conference, Alet-les-Bains, France, 4-8 June 2001

Invited lecture, Culture / Communication / Technology: computer-mediated communication or computer-mediated colonization in the 'electronic global village'? Monday Open Minds series, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 5 February 2001.

Invited lecture, Is there a Borg in your Future? Technological Determinism, Technological Instrumentalism, and Whither the Electronic Global Village? Communication Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, 28 April 2000.

Invited lecture, Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication: Avoiding Cybercentrism on the Fiber Optic Road to the Global Village. Kauai Community College, Kauai, Hawai i, 13 January 2000. Under the auspices of University of Hawai i s International Affairs Outreach Program of the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council.

Recent Conference Organization, Presentations,

Technology in a multicultural (global) society, conference organization and presentation with May Thorseth (Programme for Applied Ethics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim) and Dag Elgesem (Department of Humanistic Informatics, Bergen University, Bergen, Norway). Trondheim, Norway. October 9, 2003.

Panel respondent (based on my chapter Are We There Yet? in Mark Johns et al, (eds.), 2003.), Online Social Research: Methods, Issues, and Ethics, AoIR 4.0, Toronto, Oct. 16, 2003.

Internet Research Ethics, Pre-conference workshop, AoIR 4.0 conference, Toronto, October 15, 2003.

Ethical Guidelines for Internet Research, New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methods Symposium. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, September 4-6, 2003.

Program Committee, CEPE 2003: Fifth International Conference of Computer Ethics - Philosophical Enquiry June 25-27, 2003. Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (USA).

Comparative Approaches in Philosophy of Religion. Part of panel on Teaching Comparative Philosophy, ASIANetwork Annual Conference, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, April 11-12, 2003.

Internet Research Ethics. Computers and Philosophy Conference, Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland. March 28, 2003.

Chair, Ethical Decision-making and Internet Research: The AoIR Ethics Working Committee s Recommendations, AoIR 3.0, Maastricht, the Netherlands, Oct. 14, 2002.

Culture, Technology, Communication: Insights Old and New. 17th annual Computers and Philosophy conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. August 8-10, 2002.

Co-chair, with Fay Sudweeks, Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC) 02. Montreal, Canada, July 13-17, 2002. Sponsored in part by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Universite de Montreal.

Conference presentation, Beyond Contemptus Mundi and Cartesian Dualism: Western Resurrection of the BodySubject and (re)New(ed) Coherencies with Eastern Approaches to Life/Death, Academie du Midi / Institut fur Philosophie: East-West Conference, Alet-les-Bains, France, May19-26, 2002.

Panel respondent, The Impact of Computing on the Profession: Theory, panel sponsored by the American Philosophical Association s Committee on Philosophy and Computing, APA Central Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 24-27, 2002. I responded to presentations by Barbara Becker (University of Paderborn, Germany), Gordon Graham (Kings' College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK), and Paul Thagard (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada).

Program Chair, Computer Mediated Communications/Cross Cultural Issues, Computers and Philosophy Conferences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. 1999-present.

With Helen Nissenbaum, panel organizer/convenor, Internet Research Ethics, Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries (CEPE) Conference, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. December 14-16, 2001. (NSF Grant SES-0135590)

Internet Research: An Introduction For Researchers And Teachers. A Preconference Workshop, Nancy Baym, Chair. National Communication Association (Atlanta, GA), October 31, 2001.

Preliminary Report, Ethics Working Committee, Association of Internet Researchers. October 10, 2001.

Introduction to Philosophy: an East/West Approach, plenary panel presentation, ASIANetwork annual conference, Cleveland, OH, April 20-22, 2001.

The Impact of the Internet on our Moral Lives. Invited panel presentation, American Philosophical Association Central meeting, May 3-5, 2001. Minneapolis, MN.

Culture/Technology/Communication - Towards an Intercultural Global Village, Conference Presentation, Internet Research 1.0: The State of the Interdiscipline, September 14-17, 2000, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.

Panel convenor, Computing and World Cultures, 15th annual Computers and Philosophy conference, Carnegie Mellon University, August 10-12, 2000.

Conference co-chair, with Fay Sudweeks, CATaC 2000, Cultural collisions and creative interferences in the global village (the second conference on culture, technology, and communication), Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, July 13-15, 2000. See Panel convenor, Teaching and Technology, ASIANetwork annual conference, Hickory Ridge Conference Center, Lisle, Illinois, April 28-30, 2000.

Cultural Collisions and Collusions in the Electronic Global Village: From McWorld and Jihad to Intercultural Cosmopolitanism, Eighth East-West Philosophers Conference, University of Hawaii/East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 12, 2000.

Conference Co-chair, Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC), Science Museum, London, Aug. 1-3, 1998. Co-chair Fay Sudweeks (School of Information Technology, Murdoch University, Western Australia). An interdisciplinary, international conference examining how diverse cultural attitudes - including the cultures of Central and East Asia, North America, Western Europe, and of indigenous peoples - shape the appropriation and use of the Internet and the World Wide Web. CATaC is sponsored by scholarly organizations in the disciplines of communication, cultural studies, religion and philosophy, as well as the Science Museum (London), under contract with the Swiss Office of Technology Assessment.

Consultancies

Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development, College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio. April 23-25, 2003.

Ontario Council on Graduate Studies, Philosophy M.A. Program Appraisal. Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario. (On-site visit, March 19-21, 2003).

American Bible Society: Best Practices Internet Project. September, 2002.

Invited participant, the first Pew Internet & American Life Project academic advisory meeting, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 15, 2002.

American Bible Society: Best Practices Internet Project. February, 2002.

American Bible Society, Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media. Editor of book (conference-based chapters plus additional invited contributions) to be published in 2004.

Recent Grants:

Co-PI (with Elizabeth Buchanan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Internet Research Ethics: Discourse, Inquiry and Policy," National Science Foundation, Division of Social and Economic Sciences - Ethics and Values of Science Engineering and Technology Program. $149,999.00 / 2007-2009. SES 0646591

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Aarhus Universitets Forskningsfond (University of Aarhus Research Fund), 227,500 DKR in support of guest researcher position, Institute for Information and Media Sciences. Fall, 2007.

(with Lorna Heaton, Universite de Montreal, and Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (CA$9,690 + 3,500 matching from Universite de Montreal) in support of CATaC 02 (Montreal, Canada), .

(with Helen Nissenbaum, New York University) National Science Foundation (SES-0135590: $20,529.) Title: Research Agenda Workshop on Internet Research Ethics. In support of travel, accommodations, and conference registration fees for seven participants in a workshop on developing a research agenda for Internet research ethics (with Helen Nissenbaum). In conjunction with the Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries conference (CEPE), Lancaster, UK, Dec. 14-16, 2001.

(with Soraj Hongladarom, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok) Thailand Research Fund, Royal Golden Jubilee Program. This grant included travel funds ($5,500) for two trips to Thailand; one of these trips included my travel to serve as a keynote speaker for the Information Technology and the University in Asia (ITUA), April 3 to 5, 2002.

Hewlett Foundation, Professionalizing the Liberal Arts. 1998-2001. In concert with colleagues in architecture, we explore and incorporate the insights and pedagogical strategies of the other s discipline into our own, beginning with a teaching unit on Thomas Jefferson as architect/philosopher in Alpha Seminar (1998-99) and in subsequent courses in both philosophy and architecture. ($2,000.00)

3M Vision Grant, STEP UP, (Director, Ruth Monroe, Theatre Department). 1998-2001.This grant supports philosophy students working with local middle- and elementary school at-risk students in conjunction with theatre, English, and education students, to teach critical thinking, writing, and presentation skills. ($50,000.00)

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