Week 7

Ethics and Justice

We’ll consider just a few of the myriad issues raised by the latest technological developments.

Read, view, and listen

In-class activities

SoundCloud API

Nomisma SPARQL endpoint

LOD cloud

Today’s slides

What should we talk about in Week 10?

Respondus controversy

Respondus website

“Students Question Lockdown Browsers”

Cookies and trackers

Blacklight tool for viewing cookies and trackers

View do not track, the interactive documentary we looked at in class

What percentage of the web is monitored by which trackers?

See how trackers identify you

Request your Amazon data

Find one version of your data double (limited to your social media profiles)

View your interests, according to Google

Watch the Localogy video we looked at in class

View the data broker’s video we looked at in class

“Against Cop Shit,” by Jeffrey Moro

Data brokers

“How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age” (New York Times)

“Thomson Reuters: Everyday Heroes” (video)

Predictive analytics

“Credit Scores Could Soon Get Even Creepier” (Vice)

“Millions of black people affected by racial bias in health-care algorithms” (Nature)

“How We Analyzed Allstate’s Car Insurance Algorithm” (The Markup)

Screening Surveillance

Stuff I couldn’t fit in class but is nevertheless interesting!

“An American University Is Spying On Students to Predict Dropouts. Here’s What That Says About Big Data in the U.S.” (Fortune)

“Library patron privacy in jeopardy: an analysis of the privacy policies of digital content vendors” (Lambert et al., asis&t)

Chris Gilliard’s (@hypervisible’s) blogDr. Gilliard is one of the most prominent and incisive critics of edtech.

Audrey Watters’s (@hackeducation’s) blog. Ms. Watters is another important critic. (You can read her book online.)