In this paper, you will write a 1000-1250 word narrative that communicates your assessment of your technology’s impacts, biases, and political properties. Below I have attached some documents that I did for my previous assessment for stage 1 and 2. I doing my project on Web 2.0 social media platform.
Your paper should do the following:
- Introduce your technology by describing its intended use, its location, and its creators and their demographics.
- Answer the question, “What invisible biases, values or norms may have been introduced into the design, planning or intended use of this artifact by the creators or planners, and how can you determine this?”
- Based on your observations of interactions between people and this technology, and the context of the technology (physical or digital), discuss who benefits from the technology the most and who benefits from it the least and offer some reasons why this is the case.
- Review pages 252-256 Winner’s article, “Do Artifacts Have Politics,” from Week 3 and suggest how the technology you have chosen can create a certain types of social order in our world by including and benefiting some people while excluding others. You can include any sociological, anthropological studies that have been done on the technology or lawsuits that have been filed etc. as part of your research as well.
- For example, driver side safety air bags and car seats are often designed for the average height and weight of men, thus protecting them better in crashes, and even injuring women as many experience pelvic fractures from the impact of airbags. A technology that is not designed to equally protect people of all sizes may be an ethical issue.
Articles
Harwell, Drew. “Civil rights groups ask Biden to oppose facial recognition,” The Washington Post Online Edition, February 17, 2021.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/17/facial-recognition-biden/
Kitzie, V. “”I Pretended to Be a Boy on the Internet”: Navigating Affordances and Constraints of Social Networking Sites and Search Engines for LGBTQ+ Identity Work”. First Monday, Vol. 23, no. 7, July 2018.
https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v23i7.9264
Lerman, Nina E., et al. “Versatile Tools: Gender Analysis and the History of Technology.” Technology and Culture, vol. 38, no. 1, 1997, pp. 1–8.
http://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3106781
Malik, A., A. Johri, R. Handa, H. Karbasian, and H. Purohit. “How Social Media Supports Hashtag Activism through Multivocality: A Case Study of #ILookLikeanEngineer”. First Monday, Vol. 23, no. 11, Nov. 2018.
https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v23i11.9181
Mbadiwe Tafari. “Algorithmic Injustice.” The New Atlantis, no. 54, 2018, p. 3.
http://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/90021005
Matamoros-Fernández, A. “’El Negro De WhatsApp’ Meme, Digital Blackface, and Racism on Social Media”. First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 12, Jan. 2020.
https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i12.10420
Schroeder, Stephanie. “Surveillance, Violence, and the Marginalization of Students of Color.” Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, vol. 13, no. 1, Jan. 2016, pp. 56–59.
Shah, N. “Sluts ‘r’ Us: Intersections of Gender, Protocol and Agency in the Digital Age”. First Monday, Vol. 20, no. 4, Mar. 2015.
https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v20i4.5463
Sweeney, M. E., and K. Whaley. “Technically White: Emoji Skin-Tone Modifiers As American Technoculture”. First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 7, June 2019.
https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i7.10060
Week 4 Learning materials
Below are a series of Ted Talks that address privacy issues in technology, an article on values sensitive design and a challenge reading that brings in more philosophy to the discussion of ethics and technology.
Ted Talks
Zhu Scott, Jennifer. “Why you should get paid for your data.” TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, December 2019, https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_zhu_scott_why_you_should_get_paid_for_your_data
Crockford, Kade. “What you need to know about face surveillance.” TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, November 2019, https://www.ted.com/talks/kade_crockford_what_you_need_to_know_about_face_surveillance
Cathcart, Will. “The future of digital technology and privacy.” TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, June 2020, https://www.ted.com/talks/will_cathcart_the_future_of_digital_communication_and_privacy
Cheung, Erika. “Theranos, whistleblowing and speaking truth to power. ” TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, February 2020, https://www.ted.com/talks/erika_cheung_theranos_whistleblowing_and_speaking_truth_to_power
Challenge reading
Kouppanou, A & Standish, P 2013, ‘Ethics, phenomenology and ontology’, in The sage handbook of digital technology research, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, pp. 102-116,
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