Evan Selinger

Evan Selinger is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Graduate Program Faculty Member in the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, both at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a Lincoln Scholar in the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University and a member of the Danish run working group, Social Aspects of New Technology. Evan has published extensively in the areas of philosophy of technology, sustainability ethics, and ethics/policy of science and technology. Currently, he is Editor of the journal Philosophy and Technology. To enhance public debate about ethics, Evan supplements his peer-reviewed scholarship with outreach articles in magazines like Slate and The Atlantic and 3 Quarks Daily.

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Articles

"Facebook Home Propaganda Makes Selfishness Contagious"   WIRED  Apr 22, 2013

"How We’re Turning Digital Natives Into Etiquette Sociopaths"   Wired  Mar 26, 2013

"Did My Daughter Have to Grow Up Because Selena Gomez Did?"   huffingtonpost.com  Mar 17, 2013

"Quitters Never Win: The Costs of Leaving Social Media"   The Atlantic  Feb 15, 2013

"What Sci-Fi Can Teach Us About the Present and Future of Information"   huffingtonpost.com  Jan 25, 2013

"SIRI RISING: The Inside Story Of Siri’s Origins—And Why She Could Overshadow The iPhone"   huffingtonpost.com  Jan 23, 2013

"Obscurity: A Better Way to Think About Your Data Than ‘Privacy’"   theatlantic.com  Jan 18, 2013

"I Grip the Gun and the Gun Grips Me"   wired.com  Dec 23, 2012

"Augmented-Reality Racism"   The Atlantic  Dec 17, 2012

"The Online Funeral"   blogs.wsj.com  Nov 7, 2012

"Why We Need New Rights to Privacy"   Slate.com  Nov 5, 2012

"How To Make a Spy Exhibit Boring"   Slate  Oct 16, 2012

"Can a Robot Learn to Cook?"   The Atlantic  Oct 12, 2012

"Saintly Simulation"   3 quarks daily  Sep 18, 2012

"Was Hitler a Bully? Teaching the Holocaust to Kids"   Slate  Sep 14, 2012

"Impatience as Digital Virtue"   Huffington Post  Sep 10, 2012

"Lab Rats in the Social Experiment of Personalized Advertising"   Huffington Post  Sep 4, 2012

"‘But Everybody’s Doing It!’ Lance Armstrong and the Philosophy of Making Bad Decisions"   The Atlantic  Aug 31, 2012

"Future of Privacy Forum Director: Browser Settings should be as Easy To Navigate as a Car"   Slate  Aug 29, 2012

"Why Do We Love To Call New Technologies “Creepy”?"   Slate  Aug 27, 2012

"Climate Change and Inter-Group Cooperation"   This View of Life  Aug 2, 2012

"Nudge, Nudge: Can Software Prod Us Into Being More Civil?"   The Atlantic  Jul 29, 2012

"Ultrasound Technology Can Impede Informed Consent"   3 quarks daily  Jul 27, 2012

"The Philosophy of the Technology of the Gun"   The Atlantic  Jul 24, 2012

"Digital Jiminy Crickets"   Slate  Jul 8, 2012

"What Happens When We Turn the World’s Most Famous Robot Test on Ourselves?"   The Atlantic  Jun 22, 2012

"Are Millenials Less Green Than Their Parents?"   3quarksdaily  Jun 7, 2012

"Peace Prize for Homeless Hotspots"   3 Quarks Daily  Apr 15, 2012

"Why It’s OK to Let Apps Make You a Better Person"   The Atlantic  Apr 9, 2012

"When the Morality Pill Becomes a Thoughtless Experiment"   Ethical Technology  Mar 26, 2012