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How to remember the human: Recommendations for ethical Reddit research

The first rule of etiquette on the social platform Reddit is “Remember the human.” This rule should apply to researchers, too.

Apr 11, 2024

How to remember the human: Recommendations for ethical Reddit research

Apr 11, 2024

Steamboat Willie is now public domain! But what does this actually mean for Mickey Mouse?

An explainer of the public domain and copyright terms in the U.S. in the context of our favorite corporate Mouse.

Jan 1, 2024

Steamboat Willie is now public domain! But what does this actually mean for Mickey Mouse?

Jan 1, 2024

An Academic Hallmark Christmas Movie

In the opening scene we meet our heroine: The Professor.

Dec 21, 2023

An Academic Hallmark Christmas Movie

Dec 21, 2023

ChatGPT Wrapped (An AI’s Year in Review)

OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched officially on November 30, 2022, and over the past year has often dominated news cycles for days at a time. In…

Nov 30, 2023

ChatGPT Wrapped (An AI’s Year in Review)

Nov 30, 2023

Published in
The Conversation

AI has social consequences, but who pays the price? Tech companies’ problem with ‘ethical debt’

Generative AI is designed to produce the unforeseen, but that doesn’t mean developers can’t predict some of its social consequences.

Apr 18, 2023

A woman wearing futuristic glasses staring upwards, while behind her there is a wall of lifts

Apr 18, 2023

’Twas the AI bias before Christmas

a Christmas parody in which Santa’s elves learn an important lesson about machine learning

Dec 17, 2022

’Twas the AI bias before Christmas

Dec 17, 2022

PhD Admissions Advice

Sorry about the hidden curriculum. :(

Nov 10, 2022

PhD Admissions Advice

Nov 10, 2022

Published in
CUInfoScience

The Black Mirror Writers Room: The Case (and Caution) for Ethical Speculation in CS Education

Reflection and research on the Black Mirror Writers Room teaching exercise

Mar 4, 2022

The Black Mirror Writers Room: The Case (and Caution) for Ethical Speculation in CS Education

Mar 4, 2022

Yik Yak has (re-)entered the chat. But maybe we have bigger problems now.

Six years later upon hearing that Yik Yak was back, my first impulse was dread. So I asked myself: what changed?

Oct 20, 2021

Yik Yak has (re-)entered the chat. But maybe we have bigger problems now.

Oct 20, 2021

What “counts” as computer science?

This post touches in part on two papers out of my research lab being presented this week at SIGCSE 2021: “Integrating Ethics into…

Mar 19, 2021

What “counts” as computer science?

Mar 19, 2021

Novels to get kids and teens excited about coding!

As someone who cares a lot about broadening participation in computing, and also happens to read a lot of young adult and middle grade…

Dec 12, 2020

Novels to get kids and teens excited about coding!

Dec 12, 2020

“Popular”: a short story about the future of remote education

I wrote this short story in 2006, shortly after both my graduation from an MS degree in HCI (where some of my work was on educational…

May 12, 2020

“Popular”: a short story about the future of remote education

May 12, 2020

Published in
CUInfoScience

DMCA anti-circumvention and the policy problem in HCI

There a lot of reasons why you might not be able to use technology the way you want to use it. In human-computer interaction (HCI)…

Apr 27, 2020

DMCA anti-circumvention and the policy problem in HCI

Apr 27, 2020

Spiders and crawlers and scrapers, oh my! Law and ethics of researchers violating terms of service

Last week, a federal court ruled that researchers violating a website’s terms of service (TOS) in order to conduct research aimed at…

Apr 3, 2020

Spiders and crawlers and scrapers, oh my! Law and ethics of researchers violating terms of service

Apr 3, 2020

Published in
CUInfoScience

What do we teach when we teach tech & AI ethics?

We conducted research to find out what university classes are actually teaching on the topics of tech and AI ethics.

Jan 17, 2020

What do we teach when we teach tech & AI ethics?

Jan 17, 2020

The “secret garden” of the internet: How fanfiction transforms lives

This piece appears as the foreword to the book Writers in the Secret Garden: Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring by Cecilia…

Aug 22, 2019

The “secret garden” of the internet: How fanfiction transforms lives

Aug 22, 2019

Advice for New PhD Students: Your Research Career is a Long Game

Starting a PhD program really is embarking on a journey — and this is an exciting time of year, when there are so many people tying their…

Aug 21, 2019

Advice for New PhD Students: Your Research Career is a Long Game

Aug 21, 2019

Scientists Like Me Are Studying Your Tweets—Are You OK With That?

Anything “public” on social media may be fair game, but researchers should be more ethical about using that data

Mar 19, 2019

Scientists Like Me Are Studying Your Tweets—Are You OK With That?

Mar 19, 2019

Why (and how) academics should blog their papers

Encouragement and tips for writing accessible, public-facing versions of your research papers

Mar 15, 2019

Why (and how) academics should blog their papers

Mar 15, 2019

If you’re worried about your digital footprint, don’t destroy it — make it better.

Jan 18, 2019

If you’re worried about your digital footprint, don’t destroy it — make it better.

Jan 18, 2019

Casey Fiesler

Casey Fiesler

Faculty in Information Science at CU Boulder. Technology ethics, social computing, women in tech, science communication. www.caseyfiesler.com

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