Three new bits (a short paper, a workshop, and a symposium) to be presented at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences, based on some of the reading and thinking I’ve been doing around epistemic injustice and the intersection of…
New piece in the British Journal of Educational Technology with Kirsty Kitto, accepted version available here. This one draws on our experience in developing learning analytics, the kind of practical ethics associated with virtue theories, and tensions in existing ethics…
Now that more companies (e.g. Facebook, Google, Twitter) are letting you download at least partial dumps of the data they hold on you, I’m hoping we’ll start to see more desktop based (or, local browser based) tools that support people…
I’ve recently joined the UTS Data Governance sub-committee, which alongside our ongoing work across stakeholder levels (from individual students and staff to institutional) has got me thinking a bit more about these issues. As Elouazizi notes [zotpressInText item=”{RJCF5Q6H}”] a key…
Interesting new paper Johnson, J. A. (2014). The Ethics of Big Data in Higher Education. International Review of Information Ethics, 7. although I think unfair to at least some (but certainly not all) data-mining research efforts so far. Argues that,…
Background Having just seen a BPS Research Digest on the Facebook study, I thought I’d jot down my (very rough) thoughts. For those who haven’t seen the study (?!) basically some Facebook researchers manipulated what was shown in user’s news…
So, an interesting question around the net neutrality principle. Net neutrality is basically the principle that it should not be legal to differentially charge/discount/throttle/fast-lane for web access dependent on the content being delivered. So in practice, this principle is broken…
Abstract I first discuss the relationship between moral theories, theories of moral development and perspectives on moral education. This discussion leads to a conclusion regarding the decision criterion for inclusion of an educational component into a model of moral education….
http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/knowledge-centre/blogs/digital-divide-issue-ethics For today’s blog I thought I’d take a step back and consider some of the ethical imperative for studying the digital divide. Key questions: Are we excluding users, or failing to include them? Are we trying to shrink an…
Introduction to my literature review essentially. I discuss whether or not the digital divide should be thought of (and addressed as) primarily an online or offline problem, specifically linked to socioeconomic factors which are not related to simple ‘access’ to…
Following on from the interest in pragmatism, I discuss a sort of ‘sociocultural’ context. Specifically that, rather than asking “does this group have access to information”, we also need to ask “can this group use the information they have, effectively”….
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