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Bill earned his PhD in communication in 2009 from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); higher education; business ethics and corporate social responsibility; ethics in technology and big data; and privacy. This ties into his teaching in corporate social responsibility.Degree
PhD in Communication
University of Pennsylvania
MA in Speech Communication
Colorado State University
BA in Philosophy
Colorado State University
Published Works
- Herman, D. B. (2025). Toward More Empathetic Ethical Reasoning. Business Ethics Journal Review, 12(1), 1-7. https://businessethicsjournalreview.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/bejrv12n1herman.pdf.
- Herman, D. B. (2024). Inclusive Faculty Hiring: Promising Practices for Increasing Higher Education Faculty Diversity. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 24(9). https://doi.org/10.33423/jhetp.v24i9.7284.
- Herman, D. B. . What Inclusion We Owe to Each Other: A Scanlonian Argument for Workforce DEI Practices. [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Business and Society Review.
- Herman, D. B. (2023). What Inclusion We Owe to Each Other: Contractualist Arguments for Workforce Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Western Decision Sciences Institute (WDSI) Annual Meeting, http://wdsinet.org/Annual_Meetings/2023_Proceedings/papers/056..pdf
- Herman, D. B. (2022). Meta ethics: How ignoring stakeholder interests endangers Meta/Facebook. Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics, 19(3), 58-72. https://doi.org/10.33423/jlae.v19i3.5442.
- Herman, D. B. (2021). Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Data Workers: A Stakeholder Approach. Academy of Management Proceedings, https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.16534abstract
- Herman, D. B. (2018). Teaching copyright and legal methods outside the law school. (pp 31-51). Routledge.
- Herman, D. B. (2016). Review of the book Digital depression: Information technology and economic crisis. New Media & Society,
- Herman, D. B. (2016). Policies for online search. (pp 32). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.186
- Herman, D. B. (2016). The FBI’s demands to hack Tashfeen Malik’s iPhone are a threat to everyone’s online security. USAPP: American Politics and Policy [London School of Economics], blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2016/02/20/the-fbis-demands-to-hack-tashfeen-maliks-iphone-are-a-threat-to-everyones-online-security/
- Herman, D. B. (2015). Dissolving innovation in Meltwater. Journal of Information Policy , 504-244. https://doi.org/10.5325/jinfopoli.5.2015.0204.
- Herman, D. B. (2015). ‘Emailgate’ shows Clintonian exceptionalism — in press coverage, not her behavior. USAPP: American Politics and Policy [London School of Economics], blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2015/03/14/emailgate-shows-clintonian-exceptionalism-in-press-coverage-not-her-behavior/
- Herman, D. B., Kim, M. (2014). The internet defends itself: the network neutrality debate on the web. The Information Society, 301-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2013.855687.
- Herman, D. B. (2013). The fight over digital rights: The politics of copyright and technology. (). Cambridge University Press.
- Herman, D. B. (2012). A Political History of DRM and Related Copyright debates. Yale Journal of Law and Technology, yjolt.org/political-history-drm-and-related-copyright-debates-1987-2012
- Herman, D. B. (2012). Taking the copyfight online: Comparing the copyright debate in congressional hearings, in newspapers, and on the web. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 1754-368. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2012.01575.x/abstract.
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