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!
The Belmont Report
US Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, note new changes - effective January 19, 2018
"Investigator Responsibilities FAQs," compiled by Office for Human Research Protections, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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
Stuart Hall et al., Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order, 1978
Antonio Gramsci, various writings
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
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
FemTechNet
Annette Markam, Elizabeth Buchanon, the AoIR Ethics Committee, and AoIR general membership, "Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research: Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee (Version 2.0)," 2012
Annette Markam and Elizabeth Buchanon, “Ethical Concerns in Internet Research,” forthcoming
Bettina Berendt, Marco Büchler, and Geoffrey Rockwell, “Is it Research or is it Spying? Thinking-Through Ethics in Big Data AI and Other Knowledge Sciences,” 2015)
Michael Zimmer and Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda, editors, Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Challenges, Cases, and Contexts, 2017
Patrick Sweeney, "Images of Faces Gleaned from Social Media in Social Psychological Research on Sexual Orientation," 2017
Safiya Umoja Noble, The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class, and Culture Online, 2016
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
Jason Young and Michael Gilmore, "Subaltern Empowerment in the Geoweb: Tensions between Publicity and Privacy," 2014
Tarleton Gillespie and Nick Seaver, Critical Algorithm Studies: a Reading List, 2016
Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, 2018
Cathy O'Neil, Methods of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, 2016
Julia Angwen and Jeff Larson, "Bias in Criminal Risk Scores Is Mathematically Inevitable, Researchers Say," 2016
ProPublica's series of articles on "Machine Bias: Investigating Algorithmic Injustice"
The Brian Lehrer Show, "Getting Algorithms Right" (podcast), 2018
The Policing in Chicago Research Group, "Tracked and Targeted: Early Findings on Chicago's Gang Database," 2018
Darren Abramson and Lee Pike, "When Formal Systems Kill: Computer Ethics and Formal Methods," 2011
Anna Lauren Hoffmann, "Data Violence and How Bad Engineering Choices Can Damage Society," 2018
Roshanak Kheshti, interviewed by Kelsey Chatlosh, "Interview: Sound recording, oral positionality, and audio as ethnographic object," 2018
Doug Boyd, "Informed Accessioning: Questions to Ask After the Interview," 2015
Patrick Smyth, "Materials for Open and Accessible: A Critical Distinction at Teach@CUNY Day"
Samir Chopra and Scott Dexter, Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software, 2007
Creative Commons
Shawn Lawton Henry, Shadi Abou-Zahra, and Judy Brewer, "The role of accessibility in a universal web," 2014
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
Humanidades Digitales Library Guide, prepared by The Graduate Center, CUNY, Library
Patrick Smyth, GCDI Information Security Workshop
Zeynep Tufekci, "Facebook’s Surveillance Machine," 2018
Susan Barnes, “A Privacy Paradox,” 2006
Factor, interview with Richard Stallman, "The Vanishing State of Privacy," 2017
Stephen Zweibel, Data Management (presentation), 2017
Lindsay Lloyd-Smith, “Archaeology: Principles and Practices of Digital Data Management," 2016
Domenico Fiormonte, "Digital Humanities and the Geopolitics of Knowledge," 2017
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Richard Grusin, Patrick Jagoda, and 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
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
Audrey Watters, "Invisible Labor and Digital Utopias," 2018
Xiang Biao, Global Body Shopping: An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry, 2007
Elsa Davidson, The Burdens of Aspiration: Schools, Youth, and Success in the Divided Social Worlds of Silicon Valley, 2011
Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam, Postcolonial Digital Humanities (website)
Ashley Morford and Arun Jacob, session leaders, "Let's Plan a Course: Bringing the Anti-, De-, & Post-Colonial into Digital Space, Time, & Pedagogy" at DHSI 2017 (unconference session notes)
Design for Diversity project
Siobhan Senier, “Indigenizing Wikipedia,” 2015
Angela Haas, “Wampum as Hypertext,” 2007
Marisa Elena Duarte, Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet across Indian Country, 2017
The #StandingRockSyllabus
Native-Land.ca (mapping project)
Invasion of America: How the United States Took Over an Eighth of the World (mapping project)
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," in More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence, ed. Elaine Coburn, 2015
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Kelsey Chatlosh
GC, CUNY, Digital Fellow
Cultural Anthropology Student
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