Ethics and Justice
We’ll consider just a few of the myriad issues raised by the latest technological developments.
Read, view, and listen
- “Crime Prediction Software Claims to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows it Perpetuates Them”
- “Westlaw, Lexis, Elsevier, and SSRN Belong to Data Brokers. What Does That Mean for Professional Responsibility and Ethics?”
- “Productive Myopia: Racialized Organizations and Edtech”
- “Library as Infrastructure”
In-class activities
What should we talk about in Week 10?
Respondus controversy
“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?
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)
Stuff I couldn’t fit in class but is nevertheless interesting!
Chris Gilliard’s (@hypervisible’s) blog. Dr. 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.)