Podcast series looking at conflict on social media through student posts about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
Without new laws and new conversations about the ethical norms associated with social media, the disinformation, polarization, and resulting violence will continue.
Netflix’s “The Social Dilemma” tries to sound the alarm on the dangerous human impact of social networking.
- An AI Ethics Case Study
Ethical questions about data collection, access, use, and control.
- A different kind of Facebook privacy violation
Facebook suffers a privacy violation and questions moral compasses.
- Perspectives on the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Controversy
The "harvesting" of personal data from social media impacts both individual users and the common good.
Teams that work on privacy-protective features for our online lives are much more likely to be effective if those teams are diverse, in as many ways as possible.
Calling social media posts "content" turns them into a commodity, and makes them sound less personal. Thinking of them as "parts of a conversation" invokes different social norms.
Material on ethical issues raised by Facebook, Twitter, and other social platforms