Digital Ethics

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Hey tech developers: It’d be really nice if you put a “pregnancy mode” in your weight/training/workout etc. apps. I’m getting really tired of my smart scale and exercise apps yelling at me for weight gain/decreased activity.— Swapna Krishna is on maternity leave (@skrishna) August 30, 2018

"When a flower doesn't bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower" - @purposologist #sketchnote via @kwiens62 #edchat #growthmindset #spedchat pic.twitter.com/ihTXKMxdiS— MindShift (@MindShiftKQED) September 1, 2018

Agree. Hence my addition, "we'd have to build an AI to answer that question" :)AI itself may not answer the question but the resulting impact will.— Per Axbom (@axbom) September 7, 2018

Oh it's just the terms of service of all the apps printed on the ground pic.twitter.com/b2RwY1DQoS— Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) September 9, 2018

When people translate visual text to Braille without any thought about user centered design. https://t.co/fsKqs4F66f— Alastair Somerville (@Acuity_Design) September 10, 2018

«Zuckerberg used to rave about the virtues of “frictionless sharing,” but these days Facebook is working on “imposing friction” to slow the spread of disinformation.»— Per Axbom (@axbom) September 10, 2018

Isn’t it terrifying how the words ”edge” and ”margin” so obviously correlate when development projects ignore so-called edge-cases, thus ignoring marginalized people.— Per Axbom (@axbom) August 22, 2018

The twin questions for all who invent, create and design: 1) What problems does this innovation solve? Whose problems are they?2) What problems does this innovation create? Whose problems are they?— Scott Berkun (@berkun) September 12, 2018

"Thomas, aged 70, lives on his own after his wife died last year. His children send him smart devices to track and monitor his diet, health and sleep from a distance. But Thomas has always been fiercely independent, happy to live in an organised mess."https://t.co/g0pWikPytV— Per Axbom (@axbom) September 13, 2018

This will end well pic.twitter.com/T7BMsg2BPQ— jason 🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄 (@Jason) September 15, 2018

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain

This was not a good take and I'm deleting it. I've read her letter. I get it. I still don't know what happened, but this looks a lot more callous than I intended it. I'm screenshotting it here, so that it's not lost as as a shady dodge. It's a bad take. pic.twitter.com/8Aj8AJAoy9— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 16, 2018

Can you watch this whole hilarious video without feeling a little defensive? I think you can.

My book is on Audible ... Practical Empathy--learn the eight different types of empathy, and the two you can apply in your work as creators of products, services, and experiences. Along the way, I teach you excellent listening skills. (Yes, I narrate the book.) pic.twitter.com/uyDmiPYsnc— Indi Young (@indiyoung) September 22, 2018

A Guide to Effective Questions 🤔💡🏆👥 (by @RhondaBondie1) #edchat #education #edtech #elearning #edtech #k12 #ukedchat pic.twitter.com/XVw2OXfG5r— Alex Corbitt (@Alex_Corbitt) October 6, 2018

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I can't help but feel the subtle onset of nausea and an uncontrollable eye twitch whenever I hear the tech community mention the E-Word —…

Make art, not products

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Design for the lives your users are living — not for the value you want to extract from them

1/ A couple of months ago, I discovered my health insurer was monitoring my sleep and using it to deny me benefits. So I told my colleague @marshall_allen…https://t.co/BYU1956k1a— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) November 21, 2018

It can be easy to simply accept algorithms as indisputable mathematic truths. After all, who wants to spend their spare time deconstructing complex equations? But make no mistake: algorithms are limited tools for understanding the world, frequently as flawed and biased as the humans who create and interpret them. In this brief animation, which was adapted from a 2017 presentation at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in London, the US data scientist Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction (2016), argues that algorithms can be useful tools when thoughtfully deployed. However, their ...

Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness