Thursday\, March 30
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Dodson Room (Room 302)
Irving K. Barb
er Learning Centre
RSVP required
The 2012 Menlo Report was an effort in which a group of computer scienti sts\, US government funders\, and lawyers produced ethics guidelines for re search in information and communications technology (ICT). Here we study Me nlo as a case of what we call ethics governance in the making\, finding tha t this process examines past controversies and enrolls existing networks to connect the everyday practice of ethics with ethics as a form of governanc e. To create the Menlo Report\, authors and funders relied on bricolage wor k with existing\, available resources\, which significantly shaped both the report’s contents and impacts. Report authors were motivated by both forwa rd- and backward-looking goals: enabling new data-sharing as well as addres sing past controversies and their implications for the field’s body of rese arch. Authors also grappled with uncertainty about which ethical frameworks were appropriate and made the decision to classify much network data as hu man subjects data. Finally\, the Menlo Report authors attempted to enroll m ultiple existing networks in governance through appeals to local research c ommunities as well as taking steps towards federal rulemaking. The Menlo Re port serves as a case study in how to study ethics governance in the making : with attention to resources\, adaptation\, and bricolage\, and with a foc us on both the uncertainties the process tries to repair\, as well as the n ew uncertainties the process uncovers\, which will become the site of futur e ethics work.
Dr. Finn is an Asso ciate Professor at the University of Washington Information School. She pub lished the monograph\, Documenting Aftermath: Information Infrastructures i n the Wake of Disasters\, about postearthquake communication practices. Her newer projects examine ethical research practices in the field of computer security\, and investigate the implications of novel information policies on a transnational scale. She brings together perspectives and approaches f rom information studies\, science and technology studies\, and the history of media\, information\, and communication. In addition to her research and teaching\, she is an advisor for the Science\, Technology\, & Society Stud ies (STSS) Graduate Certificate program\, a member of the iSchool's DataLab \, and starting in 2019\, a core faculty in Data Science Studies at the eSc ience Institute. Megan has an undergraduate degree in computer science from University of Michigan\, completed her PhD at UC Berkeley\, and spent time at Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge\, MA with the Social Media Collective as a Postdoctoral Researcher.
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