sex,

lies,

and data

agenda1. discuss 3 examples of applied data ethics2. brief history of ethical regulation in academia3. explore 1 new research area with potential

ethical problems4. break!5. set some rules for ethical research6. discuss a new tool and its ethical implications

instructions1. form groups of 2-3 people2. read one of the case studies, then as a group

discuss (~10 minutes):1. What happened?2. How did it make you feel?3. Were there any moral/ethical violations? Why?4. Would you do anything differently? If so, what?

3. share with the larger group what you talked about

group number one

group number two

• OkCupid’s data

group number three

how did they make you feel?

STRUCTURES for PROTECTION

INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD

TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS EXPERIMENTS

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ALGORITHMIC DISCRIMINATION

SOMETIMES, THE WRONG THING TO DO MAY BE ALLOWED

SOMETIMES, THE RIGHT THING TO DO MAY BE

AGAINST THE RULES

POLICY VIGILANTISM

POLICY REFORM

SOME GROUND RULES

1.SILENCE

DOES NOT EQUAL CONSENT

2.ONLINE AVAILABILITY

DOES NOT MAKE SOMETHING PUBLIC

3.TOOLS ARE NOT NEUTRAL

4.DATA ARE NOT NEUTRAL

5.ETHICS ARE COMPLEX

& INTERSECTIONAL

6.CHECK YOURSELF

(BEFORE YOU WRECK YOURSELF)-Ice Cube

7.OUR ONTOLOGIES & EPISTEMOLOGIES

ARE SUSPECT

ONTOLOGY

ONTOLOGY

EPISTEMOLOGIES

EPISTEMOLOGY

EPISTEMOLOGY

normalizing bodies

TSA BODY SCANNERS

applying the concepts:Proctorio

Proctorio records:•video through your webcam•audio through your microphone•your desktop•your web traffic• facial movement•body movement

Proctorio flags the student for review if you:•have ‘unusual’ body or facial movement•get up and leave from the test• talk, or others talk around you• look at another website• look at another device• take the exam from an ‘unusual’ location

THINK, PAIR, SHARE (~10 minutes)

•What are some potential abuses of this product?•Can those abuses be mitigated? How?•What are some assumptions this product takes for granted?•Can/should those assumptions be challenged? If so, how?• Is the potential risk of abuse worth the potential benefit of the product? Defend you answer.

values & assumptions are built into all

tools and research

build something into all tools & research

that interrogates values & assumptions

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further reading• SMannheimer,SWHYoung,DRossmann OntheEthicsofSocialNetworkResearchinLibraries.JournalofInformation,Communication,andEthicsinSociety14(2)• SMannheimer,EAHullSharingselves:Developinganethicalframeworkforcuratingsocialmediadata.InternationalDigitalCurationConference2017• Dataand Society:https://datasociety.net/• Councilfor BigData,Ethics,and Society:http://bdes.datasociety.net/• Literally anything by thesepeople (seriously):

AnnaLaurenHoffmannhttp://annaeveryday.com/danah boyd https://datasociety.net/people/boyd-danah/Safiya Umoja Noble https://gseis.ucla.edu/directory/safiya-umoja-noble/

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