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10:15-10:45: Small groups looking at various DH projects (one project per group), evaluating them according to values/framework, along with the following questions:
What is this project trying to do?
What is the project rationale? (Why are the creators doing it?)
What materials is it working with, and how were those materials processed? (h/t Miriam Posner's "How Did They Make That?" series
Who is the audience for this project? Is the project making an effort to reach them?
What do you think the project does well? What do you think it could improve upon?
A list of books, essays, papers, blog posts, tweets, etc. on tech and ethics that I have either read and found useful or plan to read because I think they might be useful. I’m not especially interested in ethics that doesn’t take power or structure into account, so most of the standard texts one would read in a course on ethics aren’t represented on my list.
(My) starting point
Not strictly about either ethics or tech, but Claire Dederer’s What Do We Do With the Art of Monstrous Men? verbalizes something that is wound up in how I think about ethics, and what I hear when people talk about ethics:
This, I think, is what happens to so many of us when we consider the work of the monster geniuses—we tell ourselves we’re having ethical thoughts when really what we’re having is moral feelings.
Ideal theory
Dr. Robin James recommends Charles Mills’ [Ideal Theory as I