I’ve been fascinated by the public furore about the emotional contagion in Facebook research published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. I’m an internet ethics junkie and, genuinely, am astonished by the response. Perhaps my reaction to this is because I’ve had the occasion to think and speak so much about this that I forget how little other people know about what’s actually going on to protect the individual when doing this kind of work inside the ivory tower.
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[PhD] Internet Research Ethics: studying contagion and large networks online
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The Personal (Computer) Is Political: Recommendations for the rest of us
Tuesday April 01, 2014 @ 10:13 AM (UTC)Becoming a critical consumer of technology isn’t just the responsibility of our teachers, our policy makers or software developers: we need to arm ourselves with the knowledge and the know-how to break out of our technofundamentalist trappings, and to wrestle our lives back from the machines.
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The Personal (Computer) Is Political: Recommendations for Educators
Monday March 31, 2014 @ 09:46 AM (UTC)How do we become critical of media? Through the lessons from our teachers and educators. The people who are the lifeblood to the next generation of informed online participants should be armed with digital literacies, outlined in The Personal (Computer) is Political, the research report released last week for The Nominet Trust. In the report, I propose several recommendations for taking those important steps in that direction.
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The Personal (Computer) Is Political: Recommendations for Policy & Regulation
Friday March 28, 2014 @ 09:23 AM (UTC)Software is not the solution to social ills, yet “software solutions” are de facto implemented in policy and regulation without an accurate understanding of what’s actually offered. From Big Data to privacy to censorship, here are recommendations from The Personal (Computer) Is Political for policy makers and regulators, published by The Nominet Trust earlier this week.
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[Academic] The Personal (Computer) Is Political: a new report on humans, computers and our technofundamentalist tendencies
Monday March 24, 2014 @ 12:41 PM (UTC)I’m pleased to announce the publication of The Personal (Computer) is Political, a new report funded by The Nominet Trust, based on the last three years of academic research.
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Digital Human Series 1: the background bits
Thursday August 02, 2012 @ 01:30 PM (UTC)During the first series of BBC Radio 4’s The Digital Human, I tweeted links about contributors or background research that the team did to create the stories of each programme.
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[Publications] Learning and Research in Virtual Worlds book out now!
Wednesday April 25, 2012 @ 11:24 AM (UTC)I’m extremely pleased to announce that the book that my colleague Jeremy Hunsinger and I edited has been published and is available to buy now!
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[UKSG] Data driven research: Opportunities for growing knowledge and ethical issues that arise
Monday March 12, 2012 @ 01:20 PM (UTC)The March 2012 issue of the UKSG journal Insights has been published, and my article, Data driven research: Opportunities for growing knowledge and ethical issues that arise is open access.
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[BLGK] First interim results, plus upcoming digital research and education events
Monday February 07, 2011 @ 12:27 PM (UTC)My role as the Researcher in Residence at the British Library involves keeping my ear to the ground on digital research-related outcomes and events. And here’s a home-grown piece of analysis, direct from the people behind the Growing Knowledge exhibition:
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[British Library, Oxford Internet Institute & Web Science Trust] Ethics and the Web
Thursday December 02, 2010 @ 11:44 AM (UTC)I’m tweeting the bits of two days of workshops about the ethics of the Web and the Internet that I find contentious and interesting, and will transpose my thoughts in another post after. First is the British Library’s and Web Science Trust’s Ethics and the Web. The second is the Oxford Internet Institute and Royal Academy of Engineering’s Internet and Ethics seminar.
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