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Identity and Identification in a Networked World
A Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium

See updated program for new times and room assignments

September 29-30, 2006
Furman Hall
245 Sullivan Street
New York University School of Law

Organizers:
Tim Schneider, JD student, NYU School of Law
Michael Zimmer, Ph.D. candidate, NYU Department of Culture & Communication
Faculty advisor: Helen Nissenbaum, NYU Department of Culture & Communication

Overview
Program (updated)
Travel Information
Sponsors

Increasingly, who we are is represented by key bits of information scattered throughout the data-intensive, networked world. Online and off, these core identifiers mediate our sense of self, social interactions, movements through space, and access to goods and services. There is much at stake in designing systems of identification and identity management, deciding who or what will be in control of them, and building in adequate protection for our bits of identity permeating the network.

This symposium will examine critical and controversial issues surrounding socio-technical systems of identity, identifiability and identification. It will showcase emerging scholarship of graduate students at the cutting edge of humanities, social sciences, artists, systems design & engineering, philosophy, law, and policy to work towards a clearer understanding of these complex problems, and build foundations for future collaborative work.

In addition to graduate student panels, keynote talks will be delivered by Professor Ian Kerr, Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law & Technology at the University of Ottawa, and Dick Hardt, CEO and founder of Sxip Identity.

The symposium is free and open to all, but you must be registered in order to attend the Friday reception and receive lunch on Friday and Saturday.

Preliminary Program (updated 26-Sept-2006)
Friday, September 29
1:00p – 2:30p Furman Hall 216	Keynote: DRM & the Automation of Virtue Prof. Ian Kerr, University of Ottawa (Lunch provided for pre-registered attendees)

2:30p – 4:00p Furman Hall 216	Student Panel: Emerging Technologies & Impacts The Nexus of Intellectual Privacy and Copyright Alex Cameron, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa Copyright Contraband Eddan Katz, Information Society Project, Yale Law School Privacy and Identity: Technologies of identification and shifting boundaries, autonomy, and public-private tensions in a digital world Lorraine Kisselburgh, Media, Technology, and Society, Purdue University Should libraries continue their transition to RFID tags in circulating items, considering governmental interest (a la the USA Patriot Act) in patron records? Olivia Nellums, Library & Information Science, Syracuse University Moderator: Prof. Ian Kerr, University of Ottawa

4:00p – 4:30p	Break

4:30p – 6:15p Furman Hall 216	Student Panel: Identity and the State Before the law - Questioning Kafka in the Face of E-Government Christoph Engemann, Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany Our border is not your border: An analysis of the UK's e-Border system Mathew Kabatoff, BIOS Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science Panopticism vis-à- vis criminal records: some socio-legal implications Verónica Piñero, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa Is There a Place for MySpace?: The Admissibility of Social Website Content Under the Federal Rules of Evidence Stacey Schesser, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC-Berkeley Wherever You Go, There you Are Anne Uteck, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa Moderator: Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren, University of Haifa

6:30p – 8:30p	Reception

Saturday, September 30
9:00a– 9:30a Furman Hall 210	Light breakfast

9:30a - 10:45a Furman Hall 210	Student Panel: Identity Construction Fitting identities into preset boxes: reflections on the case of medical records Valentina Lichtner, PhD, Centre for HCI Design, City University, London The rewards of identity: Pursuing and targeting consumer surveillance Jason Pridmore, Sociology, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada Space 2 B me: A thesis on teen identity construction in instant messenger Evelyn Grooten, New Media and Digital Culture, Utrecht University, Netherlands Moderator: Tim Schneider, NYU School of Law

10:45a – 11:15a Furman Hall 210	Break

11:15a - 12:30p Furman Hall 210	Student Panel: Social Networks The Cost of (Anti-)Social Networks: Identity, Agency and Neo-Luddites Ryan Bigge, Communication and Culture, York/Ryerson University, Toronto Writing Friendship Into Being: Group Identity in MySpace danah boyd, School of Information, University of California – Berkeley Identity within Social Networks: The Creation of freeFormed.org Megan MacMurray, Nanna Halinen, Catherine Colman, Jungmin Oh and Yonatan Kelib, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU Moderator: Michael Zimmer, Department of Culture & Communication, NYU

12:30p– 1:00p Furman Hall 210	Demonstration: TrackMeNot

1:00p– 2:00p	Lunch (Lunch provided for pre-registered attendees)

2:00p– 2:30p Furman Hall 214	Keynote: The Emerging Age of Who Dick Hardt, Founder & CEO, Sxip Identity

2:30p– 4:00p Furman Hall 214	Student Panel: Identity Management Managing Identities and Moral Identification Noemi Manders-Huits, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Selling Your Self: Examining the Ethics of Identity 2.0 Alice Marwick, Culture & Communication, NYU Toward an Archival Approach to Digital Identity Management Fred Stutzman, Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina Moderator: Michael Zimmer, Department of Culture & Communication, NYU

Travel Information

Furman Hall is located at 245 Sullivan Street, between Washington Square South and West Third Street. It is two blocks east of the West Fourth subway station (A, C, E, B, D, F and V lines). For information regarding hotel accommodations, visit http://www.nyu.edu/about/hotels.html.

Program Committee

Martin Galese, JD student, NYU School of Law
Alice Marwick, PhD student, NYU Department of Culture & Communication
Joseph Reagle, PhD student, NYU Department of Culture & Communication
Jessica Shimmin, PhD student, NYU Department of Culture & Communication
Aaron Williamson, JD student, NYU School of Law

Sponsors

National Science Foundation PORTIA Grant CCR-0331640
Microsoft Corporation
New York University Coordinating Council for Media, Culture and Communication
New York University Steinhardt School , Department of Culture and Communication
New York University Information Law Institute