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chris wiggins edited this page Apr 23, 2018 · 3 revisions

2018

For monday, now that we've thought about the challenges of defining and enforcing ethics in research, let's turn to the forces constraining ethics around how data is used in industry. Those forces include money (both in the form of investors and the business model), the market (the users who provide the data, attention, and content) and governance organizations (including the government, which provides regulation and sometimes investment).

  1. Start with the oldest (to my knowledge) observation that "You are the product": the 1973 video piece "Television Delivers People" by Richard Serra, and Carlota Fay Schoolman (either watch the 7-minute video here http://www.vdb.org/titles/television-delivers-people or read the 460-word transcript below at https://data-ppf.slack.com/files/U3SJU2P6W/FAAKT9RE3/transcript___television_delivers_people_.txt )

  2. Fast forward to 1997, the oldest (to my knowledge) piece to capture the dynamics of what we now call the attention economy: http://firstmonday.org/article/view/519/440

  3. Fast forward to the present day, a piece from last month by J. Grimmelmann (whom I mentioned in lecture Monday) about "fake news", the users, and the alogrithms: Grimmelmann, James. "The Platform is the Message." (2018). ( https://data-ppf.slack.com/files/U3SJU2P6W/FA950E12S/grimmelman-2018-03-02.pdf )

  4. The final reading is a macro-observation covering the last century to present day and speculating on the future by the venture capitalist Janeway, from an advance e-copy of the 2nd edition of his book "Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State." ( https://data-ppf.slack.com/files/U3SJU2P6W/FA885QZJN/janeway-preface.pdf )

Enjoy!

2017:

  1. 13 pages from 1997 on the attention economy

Goldhaber, Michael H.. “The attention economy and the Net.” First Monday [Online], 2.4 (1997): n. pag. Web. 19 Apr. 2017

http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/519/440

  1. pasquale’s Black Box Society ch1 pp 10-18 (8 pages)
  • “the secrecy of business and the business of secrecy”
  • “looking back”
  • “the shape of the book”
  • “the self-preventing prophecy” p140-167 (27 pages)
  • “watching (and improving) the watchers”
  • “the who, when, what, and why of disclosure”
  • “fictions of privacy”
  • “fuller disclosure”
  • “lawful use of data”
  • “spy files”
  • “quantified transparency”
  • “1st amendment wildcard”

  1. “Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery” (approx 4 pages) https://dataprivacylab.org/projects/onlineads/index.html

  2. OPTIONAL watch http://www.vdb.org/titles/television-delivers-people ( 7 minutes )

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