Documentary Ethics, Ontology, and Politics

Published in Archival Science, 3 (8): 165-180.

The Role of Facts in Paul Otlet's Modernist Project of Documentation

This is a proof copy of a paper published in European modernism and the information society: Informing the present, understanding the past, ed. W. B. Rayward, 75–88. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate (2007).

Assembling an African Information Ethics

This paper appears in the International Review of Information Ethics, 7 (2007): 135-145. It was written for the African Information Ethics Conference: Ethical Challenges Information Age, held in Pretoria, 5-7 February 2007.

Subjectivity and Information Ethics

This is a preprint of an article published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology  © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company. The paper appeared in early 2008, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 267-277.

Foucault, Deleuze, and the Ethics of Digital Networks

This paper appears in Localizing the Internet. Ethical Issues in Intercultural Perspective. Edited by Johannes Fruhbauer, Rafael Capurro, Thomas Hausmanninger. Munich: Fink Verlag 2007. This volume is an anthology of revised papers selected from submissions to the International ICIE Symposium 2004, Localizing the Internet: Ethical Issues in Intercultural Perspective, Karlsruhe, Germany, 4-6 October, 2004.

Documentation Redux: Prolegomenon to (Another) Philosophy of Information

This paper has been published in Library Trends 54 (2004): 387-407.

Cyber-Ethics: Bodies or Bytes?

First presented at the EEI21 - MEMPHIS. An Annual Scholarly Symposium: The Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century. The University of Memphis, 5-8 October, 2000. This web version is the only clean text of the paper. The versions (print and online) published by Academic Press's  International Information and Library Review contain errors introduced by the publisher. The following paragraph is required by the publisher:

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Discourse and Documentation: Some Implications for Pedagogy and  Research

This paper has been published in The Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 42 (2000): 13-28.

The Role of the Scientific Paper in Science Information Systems

Presented at The Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 23-25 October 1998.

Published in History of Information Science: Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems. Edited by Mary Ellen Bowden, Trudi Bellardo Hahn & Robert V. Williams. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1999. © 1999 American Society for Information Science.

"Best Books" and Excited Desires: Discursive Tensions in the Writings of Melvil Dewey

This paper has been published in Libraries and Culture (1996) 32 (4): 349-371.

Taking Information Policy beyond Information Science: Applying the Actor Network Theory

Presented at Connectedness: Information, Systems, People, Organizations, the 23rd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Edmonton, Alberta, 7-10 June 1995.

The Social and Discursive Construction of New Information Technologies

Presented at 4. Internationales Symposium für Informationswissenschaft (ISI '94), 2-4 November 1994, Graz, Austria.

Published in Mehrwerk von Information-Professionalisierung de Informationsarbeit. Preceedings des 4. Internationalen Symposiums für Informationswissenschaft (ISI '94). Edited by Wolf Rauch, Franz Strohmeier, Harald Hiller, and Christian Schlögl. Konstanz: Universitätsverlag Konstanz.

Communication Technologies and Human Subjectivity: The Politics of Postmodern Information Science

Presented at the 21st Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, 12-14 July 1993.

Published in Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 19, no 2 (1994): 1-22.

The Ethics of Information Science Theory

Invited paper, presented at: Information Democracy: Creating an Agenda for Action, Session 3: Power and Control Issues in the U.S., 55th ASIS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, 26-29 October 1992.