Data & Society’s Ethics in “Big Data” Research initiative currently consists of two projects:
Ethics in “Big Data” Research
All Work
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Academic Article
Big Data and SocietyD&S Researcher Jake Metcalf and D&S Affiliate Kate Crawford examine the growing discontinuities between research practices of data science and established tools of research ethics regulation. Abstract: There are growin... Read on Big Data and SocietyMay 2016 -
blog post
Balkin.blogspot.comReflections from D&S Affiliate Solon Barocas and Advisors Edward W. Felten and Joel Reidenberg on the recent “Unlocking the Black Box” Conference held on April 2 at Yale Law School: Our work on accountable algorithms shows... Read on Balkin.blogspot.comApril 2016 -
Academic Article
University of Pennsylvania Law ReviewD&S Affiliate Solon Barocas and Advisors Edward W. Felten and Joel Reidenberg collaborate on a paper outlining the importance of algorithmic accountability and fairness, proposing several tools that can be used when designi... Read on University of Pennsylvania Law ReviewMarch 2016 -
Resource
Data & SocietyArvind Narayanan is a computer scientist at Princeton. He advised a Master's thesis, described in Section 2, that utilized a similar methodology to the Encore project. Bendert Zevenbergen is a Ph.D candidate and researcher at t... Read moreSeptember 2015 -
video
PBS"Some social media companies—including Facebook—have run experiments to learn what influences user behavior. Many of these experiments have troubled both social media users and privacy advocates, who worry that this research an... Read on PBSJanuary 2015