Leder av Program for anvendt etikk http://www.ntnu.no/anvendtetikk/, del av ledergruppen for Globaliseringsprogrammet (leder av fokusområde Intercultural Dynamics: Communication, Responsibiity, Development).

Eksternt medlem av Forskningsetisk utvalg ved Universitetet i Oslo.

Forskningsinteresser:

Anvendt etikk og politisk filosofi; globalt,  deliberativt demokrati vs.

fundamentalisme;  offentlig vs. privat bruk av fornuften, spesielt knyttet

til informasjonsteknologi, (institusjonell) styring av naturressurser,

samt flerkulturelle konflikter og migrasjon.

 

Forskningsprosjekter 2012 -

• ISP-FIDE. Project: Applied Ethics: Technology and Governance of Health and Natural Resource, Norwegian research council, 2012-1014.
•  Rights to a Green future (RGF), an ESF project running from 2011-2015, see http://www.greenrights.nl/ . One wg lead by may Thorseth: Investigating the main psychological and institutional obstacles to a sustainable politics.

• Part of the expert panel of the EU project The Onlife Initiative Concept Reengineering Exercise: rethinking public spaces in the digital transition, an EU expert panel working on future policy in the digital transition realm, 2012, see http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital_futures/workshops/concept_reengineering/index_en.htm.

• Dialogues on Aquaculture: Nature – Technology – Governance, cross-disciplinary cooperation between researchers from two strategic research areas at NTNU: globalization and Marine and Maritime Technology, led by prof. Jennifer Bailey, ISS, SVT and May Thorseth, see http://www.ntnu.edu/dialogueonaquaculture

Utvalgte publikasjoner:

- Ess, Charles / Thorseth, May (eds.), Trust and Virtual Worlds , Contemporary Perspectives New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2011. XXX, 193 pp. ISBN 978-1-4331-0922-5 pb.  –author of  "Introduction" and "Virtuality and Trust in Broadened Thinking Online" (ca 40p).

- Thorseth, May: "Global communication Online Against Fundamentalist Knowledge offline?", in (eds)U.Mårtensson, J. Bailey, P. Ringrose, A. Dyrendahl,

- Thorseth, May; Ess, Charles; Søraker, Johnny Hartz.
Introduction. Mobile/ubiquitous computing: dreams and nightmares. Etikk i praksis 2010 ;Volum 4.(2) s. 3-11

- Thorseth, May; Ess, Charles.
Global information and computer ethics. I: The Cambridge handbook of information and computer ethics. Cambridge University Press 2010 ISBN 978-0-521-88898-1. s. 163-181

- Thorseth, May; Ess, Charles.
Technology in a Multicultural and Global Society. Worldwide Communication Online.. Lambert Academic Publishing 2009 (ISBN 978-3-8383-0331-4) 145 s.

- Thorseth, May: "Reflective Judgment and Enlarged Thinking Online", in a special issue on Kant and computer ethics of Ethics and Information Technology, edited by Charles Ess and May Thorseth. ISSN 1388-1957 (Print) 1572-8439 (Online). Online version published July 15, printed version in press, 22 p.

- Thorseth, May with Charles Ess: "Kant and Information Ethics", introduction to a special issue on Kant and computer ethics, Ethics and Information Technology, ISSN 1388-1957 (Print) 1572-8439 (Online). Online version published May 15, printed version in press, 14 p.

- Thorseth, May: "The Ethics of Global Communication Online", in Rocci Luppicini and Rebecca Adell (eds.) Handbook of Research on Technoethics. Pennsylvania: IGI Global. ISBN 13:  978-1-60566-022-6, textbook contribution, pp. 278 – 294.