Digital Ethics

Political operatives used fake news, Big Data and Facebook to suppress the vote and rile up racists in 2016. It's going to be even uglier next time around.

From 'Mad Men' to 'Math Men'. What does Big Data mean for the future of marketing?

“ The differences between White Hat strategies and Black Hat strategies might seem obvious. But the prevalence of Black Hat design in today’s media landscape suggests that it is not as obvious as we...

In March of last year, Fusion published an article detailing the ways in which Nextdoor, a social network for neighbors, had become a home for racial profiling. In the "Crime and Safety" forum of many Nextdoor communities, users were reporting people as "suspicious" seemingly based primarily on the color of their skin.

Because thinking is hard.

“Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.” — Claude Lévis-Strauss 1908–2009

Silicon Valley’s most successful tech companies use the insights of behaviour design to pump us with dopamine and keep us returning to their products. But, as Ian Leslie learns, some of the

Find an ethics framework and practical strategies to help you make better decisions.

Designing our Complex Future with Machines.

It’s not just about introspection.

We have figured out the rules of creating sleek sophistication. We know, more or less, how to get it right. Now, we need a shift in perspective that allows us to move forward. We need a pole right through a horse's head. We need to enter the third stage of this cycle. It's time to stop figuring out how to do things the right way, and start getting it wrong.

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Facebook has been hit with a €1.

The triumph of ‘digital Taylorism’ means that many jobs in the modern economy have been sapped of their humanity, write professors Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger

The need for a Humans 101 course, and what it might contain

About one in 13 Scots are placed on a police database aimed at protecting "vulnerable" people.

Google has started letting people report adverts that know “too much” about them. The company delivers personalised display ads that are targeted at individual users, based on a number of factors.

So, it's a good thing no one reads them!

His Yom Kippur message seems to be another reaction to Facebook’s role in the Russia scandal.

User research and a human centred design approach form the basis of ustwo’s thinking on autonomy and driverless cars.

The world’s most powerful information gatekeepers neglected their duties in Las Vegas. Again.

Testimony from those working to keep beheadings, bestiality and child sexual abuse images off Facebook indicates that the support provided isn’t enough

“Leisure lives on affirmation. It is not the same as the absence of activity … or even as an inner quiet. It is rather like the stillness in the conversation of lovers, which is fed by …

Three ways that modern internet technologies are tearing our young people apart

Google killed off a new Maps feature in under a day because it rubbed users the wrong way. What can we learn from this in building our own products?

In the past few years, we’ve been deluged with discussions of how artificial intelligence (AI) will either save or destroy the world…

I temporarily closed my FB group last week because of this pattern: white women were getting free educations and 1:1 support in the comment threads, primarily from women of colour. This was exhausting, frustrating and hurtful to women of colour. As the leader of the group, it’s my responsibility to create a different environment and dynamic […]