Resources on ethics for digital projects & research Note that these resources are just a sampling of readings and projects that may be useful for thinking about or demonstrative of critically ethical approaches to digital projects and research, but there are many more resources out there!
US government regulations and general IRB information: The Belmont Report
US Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, note new changes - effective January 19, 2018
Regulations and Policy in the US, compiled by the Office for Human Research Protections, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
International Compilation of Human Research Standards (by country), compiled by the Office for Human Research Protections, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The CUNY Human Research Protection Program (HRPP)
For guidelines on when CUNY HRPP or IRB Review is required, click here
For additional information on the CUNY HRPP policies & procedures, click here
Key works (among many more!) on the politics of knowledge production and forms of knowledge: Stuart Hall et al., Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order , 1978
Antonio Gramsci, various writings available here
Michel Foucault, "Panopticism," 1977
Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language , 1969
Dwight Conquergood, "Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research," 2002
Diana Taylor, The Archive and the Repertoire , 2003
Donna Haraway, "Situated Knowledges," 1988
General information on digital ethics beyond compliance: Annette Markham, “OKCupid data release fiasco: It’s time to rethink ethics education” (2016)
Casey Fiesler, table of "Tech Ethics Curricula" - including links to syllabi
On internet, social media and "big data" research ethics: The 2012 Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research report by the the AoIR Ethics Working Committee
Annette Markam & Elizabeth Buchanon, “Ethical Concerns in Internet Research”
Susan Barnes, “A Privacy Paradox,” 2006
Berendt, Büchler, & Rockwell, “Is it Research or is it Spying? Thinking-Through Ethics in Big Data AI and Other Knowledge Sciences” (2015)
Michael Zimmer & Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda, editors, Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Challenges, Cases, and Contexts , 2017
Safiya Umoja Noble, The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class, and Culture Online 2016
A list by @hypervisible on Twitter of tech platforms enacting dubious ethical practices
Matthew Zook, Solon Barocas, danah boyd, Kate Crawford, Emily Keller, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Alyssa Goodman, Rachelle Hollander, Barbara A. Koenig, Jacob Metcalf, Arvind Narayanan, Alondra Nelson, Frank Pasquale, "Ten simple rules for responsible big data research," 2017
On ethics, algorithms and databases: Critical Algorithm Studies: a Reading List, compiled by Tarleton Gillespie and Nick Seaver, 2016
Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism - to be released in 2018
Cathy O'Neil, Methods of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy , 2016
Julia Angwen & Jeff Larson, "Bias in Criminal Risk Scores Is Mathematically Inevitable, Researchers Say"
ProPublica's series of articles on "Machine Bias: Investigating Algorithmic Injustice"
The Brian Lehrer Show podcast on "Getting Algorithms Right," 2018
The Policing in Chicago Research Group, "Tracked and Targeted: Early Findings on Chicago's Gang Database," 2018
On public sharing and accessibility for differently abled people: Samir Chopra and Scott Dexter, Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software , 2007
Creative Commons on licensing your work for public sharing within various constraints
Dr. Joshua Miele’s work on digital accessibility - see a review of his GC talk by Nanyamkah Mars here
George Williams, "Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities" in Debates in the Digital Humanities , ed. Matt Gold 2012
Tyler Zoanni, "Creating an Accessible Online Presentation," 2017
On data security and management: Patrick Smyth's, CUNY GC Digital Fellow and English Ph.D. candidate, workshop on information security
Stephen Zweibel’s, CUNY GC Digital Scholarship Librarian, presentation on data management, 2017
Lindsay Lloyd-Smith, “Archaeology: Principles and Practices of Digital Data Management," 2016
On ethical and political debates within the field of digital humanities (DH): Domenico Fiormonte, "Digital Humanities and the Geopolitics of Knowledge" 2017
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Richard Grusin, Patrick Jagoda, & Rita Raley, "The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities" in Debates in the Digital Humanities , ed. Matt Gold 2016
Tara McPherson, "Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation" in Debates in the Digital Humanities , ed. Matt Gold 2012
Elizabeth Losh, "Hacktivism and the Humanities: Programming Protest in the Era of the Digital University" in Debates in the Digital Humanities , ed. Matt Gold 2012
On divisions of labor on digital projects and "digital carework" (Risam 2018): Roopika Risam, "Diversity work and digital carework in higher education," 2018
Rafia Mirza, Brett Currier and Peace Ossom Williamson, "Memorandum of Understanding Collection" - MOUs to apply for large scale collaborative projects
On post- / de- / anti- colonial digital humanities (DH): Postcolonial Digital Humanities website by Adeline Koh & Roopika Risam
"Let's Plan a Course: Bringing the Anti-, De-, & Post-Colonial into Digital Space, Time, & Pedagogy" at DHSI 2017 led by Ashley Morford & Arun Jacob - unconference session notes
Some examples of anti-colonial digital projects & research: Design for Diversity project
“Indigenizing Wikipedia” by Siobhan Senier
“Wampum as Hypertext” by Angela Haas
Network Sovereignty by Marisa Elena Duarte
The #StandingRockSyllabus
On digital activism, its possibilities and its limitations: Zeynep Tufekci, "After the Protests," 2014
Zeynep Tufekci, Twitter and Teargas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest , 2017
Sasha Costanza-Chock, Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement , 2014
Aimee Cox, "The Choreography of Survival," 2015
Melissa Checker, "Stop FEMA Now: Social media, activism and the sacrificed citizen," 2016
Jarret Martineau, "Rhythms of Change: Mobilizing Decolonial Consciousness, Indigenous Resurgence and the Idle No More Movement," 2015 in More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence, ed. Elaine Coburn
Know of more useful resources that are not listed above? Email me to request to add something to this resource list:
Kelsey ChatloshKchatlosh@gradcenter.cuny.edu
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