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I learned this week that Reveal Digital has digitized On Our Backs (OOB), a lesbian porn magazine that ran from 1984-2004. This is a part of the Independent Voices collection that “chronicles the transformative decades of the 60s, 70s and 80s through the lens of an independent alternative press.” For a split second I was really excited … Continue reading "digitization: just because you can, doesn’t mean you should"
Job decisions, college admissions, health care decisions: All are now being fundamentally altered by your big data, and you might not even know.
The conceptual, practical, and ethical issues surrounding “big data” and data in general begin at the very moment of data collection…
Abstract “Big data blacklisting” is the process of categorizing individuals as administratively “guilty until proven innocent” by virtue of suspicious digital data and database screening results. Database screening and digital watchlisting systems are increasingly used to determine who can work, vote, fly, etc. In a big data world, through the deployment of these big data […]
In the waning months of the Bloomberg administration, I worked for a time in a New York City Hall data group within the Health and Human Services...
Contemporary ideas about data and privacy are tied up inextricably with language choices.
New report heralds mass data monitoring in higher education – but there are concerns about how much say students and staff will have
Hi everyone, I just came back from giving a keynote speech in Vancouver Canada, complete with pictures of baby animals. I am condensing the key concepts here. A couple of notes before we tackle tod…
This is a post-print of an article in volume 14, issue 2 of the Journal of Information, Communication, and Ethics in Society. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journal/jices
As Web culture permeates the higher education experience, from Yik Yak conversations to collaborative digital assignments, questions of data privacy ...
In the 1950s, a group of scientists spoke out against the dangers of nuclear weapons. Should cryptographers take on the surveillance state?
Originally posted on DETROITography.com I am constantly thinking about how to make maps and data more focused on people, their stories, and the impacts that those numbers represent. It is a constan…
Studies show big data can lead to racial bias, algorithms develop prejudices.
As archives start to collect, provide access to, and present social media collections, many ethical issues arise that need to be addressed.
Today, some libraries are (unsuccessfully?) advocating for a bookless future. To many, that prospect seems bizarre, even sacrilegious.