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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1991
2006
2017
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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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