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Casey Fiesler

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.

4 min readApr 11, 2024

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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.

6 min readJan 1, 2024

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

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An Academic Hallmark Christmas Movie

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

7 min readDec 21, 2023

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An Academic Hallmark Christmas Movie

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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…

8 min readNov 30, 2023

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ChatGPT Wrapped (An AI’s Year in Review)

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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.

6 min readApr 18, 2023

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

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’Twas the AI bias before Christmas

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

3 min readDec 17, 2022

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PhD Admissions Advice

Sorry about the hidden curriculum. :(

7 min readNov 10, 2022

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PhD Admissions Advice

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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

7 min readMar 4, 2022

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

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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?

6 min readOct 20, 2021

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

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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…

5 min readMar 19, 2021

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What “counts” as computer science?

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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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