Rate My Professor Norman Mooradian

Dr. Norman Mooradian, Ph.D., CIPP/US, serves as Assistant Professor in the School of Information at San Jose State University within the College of Information, Data and Society. He teaches courses in information ethics, AI and data ethics, and information retrieval. Dr. Mooradian brings a rich background from both academia and industry to his role. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Philosophy from The Ohio State University (Ph.D. 1992), has completed graduate courses in Legal Studies at the University of Illinois, and possesses the CIPP/US Information Privacy Professional Certification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Before joining SJSU faculty, he was Customer Education Manager at Konica Minolta in the Intelligent Information Management Division, with over two decades of experience in information and enterprise content management (IIM/ECM) across diverse roles. He has actively participated in standards committees for trusted systems and presented extensively for organizations like ARMA International and AIIM.

Dr. Mooradian's scholarship bridges applied ethics, epistemology, and ontology with information sciences. His research interests include information ethics, business ethics, information privacy, enterprise content management, knowledge management, virtual reality, and emerging topics in AI governance and data privacy. Notable publications encompass his book, Ethics for Records and Information Management (ALA Neal-Schuman, 2018); "Knowledge Ethics: Conceptual Preliminaries, Scope and Justification" (iSchool Student Research Journal, Vol. 13, Iss. 2, 2024); "Is Knowledge Management (Finally) Extractive? – Fuller’s Argument Revisited in the Age of AI" (2024); "AI, Records, and Accountability" (ARMA Magazine, 2019); "The Importance of Privacy Revisited" (Ethics and Information Technology, 2009); and "Tacit Knowledge: Philosophic Roots and Role in KM" (Journal of Knowledge Management, 2005). Recent articles address AI's impact on data privacy, conversational agents' privacy harms, and paradata in AI documentation. His contributions influence ethical practices in records management, AI accountability, and knowledge economies through publications, professional presentations, and committee service.