The document outlines an agenda for a workshop on data ethics. It discusses three examples of applied data ethics, a brief history of ethical regulation in academia, and exploring a new research area with potential ethical problems. Participants will form groups to discuss case studies and their ethical implications. Ground rules for ethical research are presented, including that tools and data are not neutral and ethics are complex. A discussion of the tool Proctorio and its ethical implications is proposed. The document emphasizes that values and assumptions should be interrogated in all tools and research.

1. sex,
lies,
and data

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

4. group number one

7. group number two

8. • OkCupid’s data

10. group number three

13. how did they
make you feel?

15. STRUCTURES for PROTECTION

16. INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD

17. TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS EXPERIMENTS

21. 1974

22. 1991

23. 2006

24. 2017

25. 2031
16

27. ALGORITHMIC DISCRIMINATION

32. SOMETIMES,
THE WRONG THING TO DO
MAY BE ALLOWED

33. SOMETIMES,
THE RIGHT THING TO DO MAY BE
AGAINST THE RULES

34. POLICY VIGILANTISM

35. POLICY REFORM

36. SOME GROUND RULES

37. 1.
SILENCE
DOES NOT EQUAL CONSENT

38. 2.
ONLINE AVAILABILITY
DOES NOT MAKE SOMETHING PUBLIC

39. 3.
TOOLS ARE NOT NEUTRAL

40. 4.
DATA ARE NOT NEUTRAL

41. 5.
ETHICS ARE COMPLEX
& INTERSECTIONAL

42. 6.
CHECK YOURSELF
(BEFORE YOU WRECK YOURSELF)
-Ice Cube

43. 7.
OUR ONTOLOGIES & EPISTEMOLOGIES
ARE SUSPECT

44. ONTOLOGY

45. ONTOLOGY

46. EPISTEMOLOGIES

47. EPISTEMOLOGY

48. EPISTEMOLOGY

49. normalizing bodies

50. TSA BODY SCANNERS

53. applying the concepts:
Proctorio

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.

59. values & assumptions
are built into all
tools and research

60. build something
into all tools & research
that interrogates
values & assumptions

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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/

66. shea swauger
researcher support services
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@SheaSwauger