2. agenda
1. discuss 3 examples of applied data ethics
2. brief history of ethical regulation in academia
3. explore 1 new research area with potential
ethical problems
4. break!
5. set some rules for ethical research
6. discuss a new tool and its ethical implications
3. instructions
1. form groups of 2-3 people
2. 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
56. Proctorio records:
• video through your webcam
• audio through your microphone
• your desktop
• your web traffic
• facial movement
• body movement
57. 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
58. 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.
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65. further reading
• S Mannheimer, SWH Young, D Rossmann On the Ethics of Social Network
Research in Libraries. Journal of Information, Communication, and Ethics in
Society 14 (2)
• S Mannheimer, EA Hull Sharing selves: Developing an ethical framework for
curating social media data. International Digital Curation Conference 2017
• Data and Society: https://datasociety.net/
• Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society: http://bdes.datasociety.net/
• Literally anything by these people (seriously):
Anna Lauren Hoffmann http://annaeveryday.com/
danah boyd https://datasociety.net/people/boyd-danah/
Safiya Umoja Noble https://gseis.ucla.edu/directory/safiya-umoja-noble/