Author: Annette Markham

Annette Markham is Professor of Information Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She was a Visiting Research with the Social Media Collective of Microsoft Research Labs in Cambridge, MA, in 2015.

The OKCupid data release fiasco: It’s time to rethink ethics education

On By Annette MarkhamIn Methodology, Reflections3 Comments

This piece is also published on medium.com  In mid 2016, we confront another ethical crisis related to personal data, social media, the public internet, and social research. This time, it’s a release of some 70,0000 OKCupid users’ data, including some very intimate details about individuals. Responses from several communities of practice highlight the complications of …

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Discourse Matters: Designing better digital futures

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A very similar version of this blog post originally appeared in Culture Digitally on June 5, 2015. Words Matter. As I write this in June 2015, a United Nations committee in Bonn is occupied in the massive task of editing a document overviewing global climate change. The effort to reduce 90 pages into a short(er), …

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