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2019
Is Big Data Corrupting the U.S. Election Process?The Assange Indictment: Threat to a Free Press?How One Globally-Centered Group is Tackling the Ethical Implications of Image-Based mHealth in Low Resource SettingsThe Ethics of Digital Face-SwappingA Q & A with Dr. David Kamerer, Advisory Board MemberA Q & A with Dr. Florence M. Chee, Advisory Board MemberYear in Review Part IVYear in Review Part IIIYear in Review Part IIYear in Review Part IDigital Documentarians: What You Need to KnowCDEP Publication: Digital Ethics: Research and PracticeCDEP Publication: Ethics for a Digital Age, Vol. IICDEP Publication: Ethics for a Digital Age
2018
Who can be trusted with our personal data?Self-Driving Car EthicsHow Big is Big Tech?Live streaming & live tweeting: A pragmatic approach to ethical considerations.The Death Algorithm — Will Google Influence Your Lifespan?Accuracy and ethics in reporting the Boston bombingDigital Supermodels-Fake it Till You Make ItFacebook, Cambridge Analytica and Why Your Data is Still for SaleUncle Sam Wants Your Phone? Military Funds Smartphone App to Monitor HealthSentence by Numbers: The Scary Truth Behind Risk Assessment AlgorithmsGold! Gold! Gold from the Blockchain River!The Role of Social Media in Adolescent/Teen Depression and AnxietyThe Logan Paul Question: Teaching Teens Morality through Epic FailsFacebook is a media company, but what’s a media company?When a Dictator Goes OnlineGoogle’s New Chokehold on Health Data PrivacyIs It a Feature? Is it a Bug? No, It’s an Antifeature.
2017
The Negative Lottery: Equifax and the Lost Art of Risk ManagementWho takes ethical responsibility for social media influence?Implanting Microchips: Sign of Progress or Mark of the Beast?NCAA’s Clamp Down on Athletes’ YouTube Use: Out of Touch and Out of Control?Proximity Marketing: Often Creepy, but It Doesn’t Have to BeDigital Connect: Sharing Experiences with Parents Benefits Children’s Media LiteracySocial Media in the Wake of DisasterThe Ethics of Doxing NazisCorporate Watchdogs or Self-Serving Capitalists?Will big business compromise the ethics of artificial intelligenceUsing Facebook to Identify Potential Problem Drinkers, Is It Ever Justified?Protecting Leakers in the Digital AgeAlthough seemingly trivial, livestreaming on social media poses serious problemsCollege Entrance Exam – “Nailed It”; Social Media Background Check – “Failed It”Toward an ethic of personal technologiesWhy We Should Hold Ourselves Responsible for Fake NewsRanting on Social Media: Innocent Comment Platform or Bully Pulpit?Does CGI cross ethical boundaries when it depicts deceased actors?Snapchat: A Powerful Tool for Gathering and Distributing NewsWhat the Attack on Doris Truong Teaches Us about Critical Thinking in the Age of Fake NewsWhy Digital Ethics MatterFollow the Money: The Pros and Cons of Geolocating Currency
2016
Journalistic Objectivity is Fiction – And That’s Just Fine.When workplace monitoring, behavioral analytics, and employee privacy collideInternet Trolls and the Ones Who Love ThemSpinning out of control: we need a code of campaign ethicsDeath and the Internet: What Happens to Your Digital Assets When You Die?Invasions of Privacy in Virtual Reality JournalismOnline Talent Platforms — A Boon for Workers or Digital Sweatshop?Analytics, Ethics and Leadership: Dialogue with the DeanThe Ethics of LifeloggingThe Privacy Setting You Can’t Control: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?Why a Cashless Society Should Scare YouWrite Reviews – Get Free Stuff!Legislating for the open internet in a commercial worldEthics of Using Eyewitness FootageAre Celebrity Scandals Changing The Privacy Landscape?Balancing Security and Privacy in the Age of Encryption: Apple v. FBIPre-Crime MonitoringCommunities of Disinterest: How an Algorithm can put an End to GerrymanderingSXSW 2016: policy, privacy, and the president - An eyewitness account.Is “ethical smartphone” an oxymoron?Verses in Email Sadism: What can public record requests tell us about human cruelty?Surveillance Art: Rebellion or Hypocrisy?Is my data more private than yours?Athletes with AgendasFacebook Unfriends Free SpeechThe Ethical Pitfalls of Crime Prevention AppsCopyright in the Digital Age: How the TPP extends a flawed and harmful policy
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2019
Is Big Data Corrupting the U.S. Election Process?The Assange Indictment: Threat to a Free Press?How One Globally-Centered Group is Tackling the Ethical Implications of Image-Based mHealth in Low Resource SettingsThe Ethics of Digital Face-SwappingA Q & A with Dr. David Kamerer, Advisory Board MemberA Q & A with Dr. Florence M. Chee, Advisory Board MemberYear in Review Part IVYear in Review Part IIIYear in Review Part IIYear in Review Part IDigital Documentarians: What You Need to KnowCDEP Publication: Digital Ethics: Research and PracticeCDEP Publication: Ethics for a Digital Age, Vol. IICDEP Publication: Ethics for a Digital Age
2018
Who can be trusted with our personal data?Self-Driving Car EthicsHow Big is Big Tech?Live streaming & live tweeting: A pragmatic approach to ethical considerations.The Death Algorithm — Will Google Influence Your Lifespan?Accuracy and ethics in reporting the Boston bombingDigital Supermodels-Fake it Till You Make ItFacebook, Cambridge Analytica and Why Your Data is Still for SaleUncle Sam Wants Your Phone? Military Funds Smartphone App to Monitor HealthSentence by Numbers: The Scary Truth Behind Risk Assessment AlgorithmsGold! Gold! Gold from the Blockchain River!The Role of Social Media in Adolescent/Teen Depression and AnxietyThe Logan Paul Question: Teaching Teens Morality through Epic FailsFacebook is a media company, but what’s a media company?When a Dictator Goes OnlineGoogle’s New Chokehold on Health Data PrivacyIs It a Feature? Is it a Bug? No, It’s an Antifeature.
2017
The Negative Lottery: Equifax and the Lost Art of Risk ManagementWho takes ethical responsibility for social media influence?Implanting Microchips: Sign of Progress or Mark of the Beast?NCAA’s Clamp Down on Athletes’ YouTube Use: Out of Touch and Out of Control?Proximity Marketing: Often Creepy, but It Doesn’t Have to BeDigital Connect: Sharing Experiences with Parents Benefits Children’s Media LiteracySocial Media in the Wake of DisasterThe Ethics of Doxing NazisCorporate Watchdogs or Self-Serving Capitalists?Will big business compromise the ethics of artificial intelligenceUsing Facebook to Identify Potential Problem Drinkers, Is It Ever Justified?Protecting Leakers in the Digital AgeAlthough seemingly trivial, livestreaming on social media poses serious problemsCollege Entrance Exam – “Nailed It”; Social Media Background Check – “Failed It”Toward an ethic of personal technologiesWhy We Should Hold Ourselves Responsible for Fake NewsRanting on Social Media: Innocent Comment Platform or Bully Pulpit?Does CGI cross ethical boundaries when it depicts deceased actors?Snapchat: A Powerful Tool for Gathering and Distributing NewsWhat the Attack on Doris Truong Teaches Us about Critical Thinking in the Age of Fake NewsWhy Digital Ethics MatterFollow the Money: The Pros and Cons of Geolocating Currency
2016
Journalistic Objectivity is Fiction – And That’s Just Fine.When workplace monitoring, behavioral analytics, and employee privacy collideInternet Trolls and the Ones Who Love ThemSpinning out of control: we need a code of campaign ethicsDeath and the Internet: What Happens to Your Digital Assets When You Die?Invasions of Privacy in Virtual Reality JournalismOnline Talent Platforms — A Boon for Workers or Digital Sweatshop?Analytics, Ethics and Leadership: Dialogue with the DeanThe Ethics of LifeloggingThe Privacy Setting You Can’t Control: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?Why a Cashless Society Should Scare YouWrite Reviews – Get Free Stuff!Legislating for the open internet in a commercial worldEthics of Using Eyewitness FootageAre Celebrity Scandals Changing The Privacy Landscape?Balancing Security and Privacy in the Age of Encryption: Apple v. FBIPre-Crime MonitoringCommunities of Disinterest: How an Algorithm can put an End to GerrymanderingSXSW 2016: policy, privacy, and the president - An eyewitness account.Is “ethical smartphone” an oxymoron?Verses in Email Sadism: What can public record requests tell us about human cruelty?Surveillance Art: Rebellion or Hypocrisy?Is my data more private than yours?Athletes with AgendasFacebook Unfriends Free SpeechThe Ethical Pitfalls of Crime Prevention AppsCopyright in the Digital Age: How the TPP extends a flawed and harmful policy
