The resources below are starting points. Read and listen to them carefully, and do additional research finding your own resources, too. Discuss them amongst yourself and make notes. Discussion points should include, but are not limited to:
- What is ethical use of data?
- Research / Profit
- What is the role of research in a profit-oriented environment.
- Ethics in large scale / ethics in targeted context.
- The role of the developer in ethical software design.
- Present your research. Introduce your peers to the subject (10-15 minutes).
- Introduce the example cases to the class, assume they have not heard of them before.
- Illustrate concepts through your own explanations and the example cases.
- Focus specifically on what you think the class needs to know to actively take part in the discussion.
- facilitate a discussion:
- develop (provocative) questions***** related to/inspired by the subject
- what contextual information does the class need to respond?
- discussion mode/starter (e.g. paper, partner brainstorm, mind map etc.)
Please arrange a meeting with me to catch up on your work (how about Friday?)
*****A good question is one that allows for multiple perspectives. Advice on how to hold better class discussions
- "The Trust Engineers", Radiolab (podcast) episode, 2015 (transcript)
- "Untangling research and practice: What Facebook’s “emotional contagion” study teaches us", danah boyd, 2016
- "Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment", The Atlantic, Robinson Meyer, 2014
- "The Test We Can—and Should—Run on Facebook" , The Atlantic, Kate Crawford, 2014
- "What the Superhuman Controversy Reveals About the Shifting Ethics of Software", New Yorker, July 17, 2019
- "How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions", New York Times, Matthew Rosenberg, Nicholas Confessore and Carole Cadwalladr, 2018
- "Cambridge Analytica and Our Lives Inside the Surveillance Machine", The New Yorker, Adrian Chen, 2018
- "Use our personal data for the common good", Hetan Shah, Nature Journal, 2018