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An experiment with embedding "growth-mindset" messaging in software appeared to help students persist when they encountered difficulty—and raised ethical concerns.
Social computing systems such as Twitter present new research sites that have provided billions of data points to researchers. However, the availability of publ...
There are growing discontinuities between the research practices of data science and established tools of research ethics regulation. Some of the core commitmen
It appears to be a remarkable breach of trust.
Ethical products and services cannot rely on “checking a box” for the use of customer data because such blanket consent ignores difficult questions about user expectations and the unique risks that data exposure might cause for one individual or group over another.
A whole chapter! With examples!
Nature - Concern over the use of public data spurs guideline update.
The parallel rise of pervasive data collection platforms and computational methods for collecting, analyzing, and drawing inferences from large quantities of us...
After an incident, a bioethicist calls for crackdown as doctors threaten legal action.
New and emerging forms of data, including posts harvested from social media sites such as Twitter, have become part of the sociologist’s data diet. In particula...
Edward Snowden’s revelation about the National Security Agency’s information-gathering practices alerted the public to the nefarious uses of data ...
University leaders praise regulation for leaving out provisions on biospecimens opposed by many as too burdensome. Social scientists see some gains for their studies.
A conversation happened on twitter today that began with the question: I actually have the same questions when it comes to using blogs in research. The current tri-council rules (the ethics guideli…
The Twitter API is a powerful tool for archiving, but its use poses particular challenges for archivists.