In order to explore public attitudes towards the use of data from online services (e.g. social media) or digital devices (e.g. mobile phone GPS), we are running a Twitter based campaign (#AnalyzeMyData) in which we reminded people of instances of data usage that have been reported in news stories and asked them to rate if they considered these data uses to be OK. In order to produce momentum of public participation we designed the experiment as a sustained campaign in which a different news item is presented each day over a period of multiple weeks. Each Tweet includes a link to a mini-survey which asks participants to respond, 'yes', 'no' or 'depends'. To further motivate continued participation as the campaign progresses, we provide a running update on our website of the response statistics to the items that were previously Tweeted. The types of data usage included in the campaign range from academic studies of social media use, to data collection for product development, marketing and government studies. Our hope is that this campaign/experiment will 1) help to raise awareness of the various ways in which personal data, acquired through online services of digital devices, is currently being used, and 2) provide a large dataset of case-studies with an associated baseline of public acceptance/rejection that can be used for future research ethics guidelines and review training.
This presentation discusses Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistics studies using internet resources. The talk was given at the Corpus Linguistics 2015 conference at Lancaster, UK (July 21-24, 2015).
In order to explore public attitudes towards the use of data from online services (e.g. social media) or digital devices (e.g. mobile phone GPS), we are running a Twitter based campaign (#AnalyzeMyData) in which we reminded people of instances of data usage that have been reported in news stories and asked them to rate if they considered these data uses to be OK. In order to produce momentum of public participation we designed the experiment as a sustained campaign in which a different news item is presented each day over a period of multiple weeks. Each Tweet includes a link to a mini-survey which asks participants to respond, 'yes', 'no' or 'depends'. To further motivate continued participation as the campaign progresses, we provide a running update on our website of the response statistics to the items that were previously Tweeted. The types of data usage included in the campaign range from academic studies of social media use, to data collection for product development, marketing and government studies. Our hope is that this campaign/experiment will 1) help to raise awareness of the various ways in which personal data, acquired through online services of digital devices, is currently being used, and 2) provide a large dataset of case-studies with an associated baseline of public acceptance/rejection that can be used for future research ethics guidelines and review training.
This presentation discusses Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistics studies using internet resources. The talk was given at the Corpus Linguistics 2015 conference at Lancaster, UK (July 21-24, 2015).
Presentation outlining the UnBias project, an EPSRC funded project about transparency of biases in algorithm behaviour, often due to unavoidable implicit choices that had to be made.
This presentation was given at the DASTS16 conference in Aarhus Denmark on June 3rd 2016.
Ethics of personalized information filteringAnsgar Koene
Presentation that was given at the 2nd International Conference on Internet Science, Brussels, May 27-29, 2015. In this presentation we discuss the ethical implication of information personalization by internet services (e.g. search engines, news feeds). After outlining the rationale behind information personalization and highlighting some of the socio-psychological, privacy and transparency issues, we conclude with a call for future research.
Presentation outlining the UnBias project, an EPSRC funded project about transparency of biases in algorithm behaviour, often due to unavoidable implicit choices that had to be made.
This presentation was given at the DASTS16 conference in Aarhus Denmark on June 3rd 2016.
Ethics of personalized information filteringAnsgar Koene
Presentation that was given at the 2nd International Conference on Internet Science, Brussels, May 27-29, 2015. In this presentation we discuss the ethical implication of information personalization by internet services (e.g. search engines, news feeds). After outlining the rationale behind information personalization and highlighting some of the socio-psychological, privacy and transparency issues, we conclude with a call for future research.
