Foundations of Information Science
The importance of ethical information decision making
Today we will explore whether or not the expansion of personal technologies
have been an unquestioned benefit to our personal freedom and autonomy.
Watch this TED talk and ask yourself who the speaker is.
But to have more of a background, read this.
Irani, Lilly. Justice for 'Data Janitors'. Public Books, January 15, 2015.
Three offerings, should you wish to go into more depth.
- Roberts, Sarah H. Understanding Commercial Content Moderation. In Behind The Screen, 33-72. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
In this chapter from her book Behind the Screen, Sarah Roberts provides an overview of commercial content moderation at companies like Facebook. She explains what commercial content moderation is, who does it, and the conditions under which they work.
- Vaidhyanathan, Siva. The Attention Machine. In Antisocial Media. Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Wu, Tim. Attention Brokers, 2015.
All that is important to think about, but there are other issues of information ethics that one may want to note
Big tech's new datacentres will take water from the world's driest areas, The Guardian, 09 April 2025
“Neither people nor data can live without water,” said Gómez. “But human life is essential and data isn't.”
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Paolo Conte and his place in Last.fm. A quote from his Wikipedia entry ...
Paolo Conte (born January 6, 1937) is an Italian singer, pianist, composer and lawyer notable for his grainy, resonant voice, his colourful and dreamy compositions (evocative of Italian and Mediterranean sounds, as well as of jazz music, South American atmospheres and of French-language singers like Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens) and his wistful, sometimes melancholic lyrics.and again