CompSci Colloquium: Casey Fiesler on "3 Lessons Towards Ethical Tech"

Three Lessons Towards Ethical Tech: Research Ethics, Ethics Education, and Broadening Participation in Computing

ABSTRACT: Hardly a week passes without a new technology ethics scandal—from privacy violations on social media platforms to biased algorithms to controversial data collection for training facial recognition systems. This talk describes three research projects from my lab that are working towards informing ethical practices in studying, designing, and building technology: (1) empirical work that informs best practices for research ethics in data science, including guidelines for collecting public data; (2) a philosophy towards ethics education in computer science, including an in-progress effort towards ethics integration in introductory programming courses here at CU; and (3) research on computational projects in online fandom communities as an example of underrepresented groups building their own technologies. Taken together, these projects suggest several principles of everyday ethics in computing research and design.

BIO: Casey Fiesler is an assistant professor in Information Science (and Computer Science, by courtesy) at CU Boulder, with additional affiliations with Silicon Flatirons and the ATLAS Institute. She directs the Internet Rules Lab (IRL), where she and her students study social computing, ethics, and governance, funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the Mozilla Responsible Computer Science Challenge. She holds a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and a JD from Vanderbilt Law School.
 

Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 3:30pm to 4:30pm

Engineering Center, ECCR 265
1111 Engineering Drive, Boulder, CO 80309

Event Type

Colloquium/Seminar

Interests

Science & Technology

College, School & Unit

Engineering & Applied Science

Group
Computer Science
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