Recent

Publication: Shamika Klassen and Casey Fiesler. "Run Wild a Little With Your Imagination": Ethical Speculation in Computing Education with Black Mirror. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2022.

Op Ed: Ethical Tech Starts with Addressing Ethical Debt WIRED. September 16, 2020. (with Natalie Garrett)

Video Essay: Zoombombing, Technology Ethics & Awful People Being Awful | An Introduction to Ethical Debt in Tech

Publication: Kandrea Wade, Jed R. Brubaker and Casey Fiesler. Protest Privacy Recommendations: An Analysis of Digital Surveillance Circumvention Advice During Black Lives Matter Protests. Companion to the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021.

Bibliography

Shamika Klassen and Casey Fiesler. "Run Wild a Little With Your Imagination": Ethical Speculation in Computing Education with Black Mirror. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2022.

Katie Shilton, Emanuel Moss, Sarah A Gilbert, Matthew J Bietz, Casey Fiesler, Jacob Metcalf, Jessica Vitak, Michael Zimmer. Excavating awareness and power in data science: A manifesto for trustworthy pervasive data research. Big Data & Society 8(2), 2021.

Kandrea Wade, Jed R. Brubaker and Casey Fiesler. Protest Privacy Recommendations: An Analysis of Digital Surveillance Circumvention Advice During Black Lives Matter Protests. Companion to the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021.

Nasim Sonboli, Jessie J. Smith, Florencia Cabral Berenfus, Robin Burke, and Casey Fiesler. Fairness and Transparency in Recommendation: The Users' Perspective. Proceedings of the ACM UMAP Conference on User Modeling and Prediction, 2021.

Nicholas Proferes, Naiyan Jones, Sarah Gilbert, Casey Fiesler, Michael Zimmer. Studying Reddit: A Systematic Overview of Disciplines, Approaches, Methods, and Ethics. Social Media + Society 7(2), 2021.

Casey Fiesler. Innovating Like an Optimist, Preparing Like a Pessimist: Ethical Speculation and the Legal Imagination. Colorado Law and Technology Journal 19(1), 2020.

Casey Fiesler, Mikhaila Friske, Natalie Garrett, Felix Muzny, Jessie Smith, and Jason Zietz. Integrating Ethics into Introductory Programming Classes. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2021.

Fiesler, Casey, Nathan Beard, and Brian Keegan. No robots, spiders, or scrapers: Legal and ethical regulation of data collection methods in social media terms of service. Proceedings of the AAAI ICWSM International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2020.

Garrett, Natalie, Nathan Beard, and Casey Fiesler. More Than “If Time Allows”: The Role of Ethics in AI Education. Proceedings of the ACM AIES Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society, 2020.

Fiesler, Casey, Natalie Garrett, and Nathan Beard. What Do We Teach When We Teach Tech Ethics?: A Syllabi Analysis. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE Conference on Computer Science Education, 2020.

Dym, Brianna, and Casey Fiesler. Ethical and Privacy Considerations for Research Using Online Fandom Data. Transformative Works and Cultures. Forthcoming, 2020.

Hallinan, Blake, Jed Brubaker, and Casey Fiesler. Unexpected Expectations: Public Reaction to the Facebook Emotional Contagion Study. New Media & Society, 2019. [OA link]

Dym, Brianna, and Casey Fiesler. “Vulnerable and Online: Fandom’s Case for Stronger Privacy Norms and Tools.” In Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, pp. 329-332. ACM (2018).

Dym, Brianna, and Casey Fiesler. “Generations, migrations, and the future of fandom’s private spaces.” Transformative Works and Cultures 28 (2018).

Fiesler, Casey, and Blake Hallinan. “‘We Are the Product’: Public Reactions to Online Data Sharing and Privacy Controversies in the Media.” In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), p. 53. ACM (2018).

Skirpan, Michael Warren, Tom Yeh, and Casey Fiesler. “What’s at Stake: Characterizing Risk Perceptions of Emerging Technologies.” In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), p. 70. ACM (2018).

Fiesler, Casey and Nicholas Proferes. “‘Participant’ Perceptions of Twitter Research Ethics.” Social Media + Society (2018).

Skirpan, Michael, Nathan Beard, Srinjita Bhaduri, Casey Fiesler, and Tom Yeh. “Ethics Education in Context: A Case Study of Novel Ethics Activities for the CS Classroom.” In Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), pp. 940-945. ACM (2018).

Fiesler, Casey, Michaelanne Dye, Jessica L. Feuston, Chaya Hiruncharoenvate, Clayton J. Hutto, Shannon Morrison, Parisa Khanipour Roshan et al. “What (or who) is public?: Privacy settings and social media content sharing.” In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), pp. 567-580. ACM (2017).

Public Scholarship

Ethical Tech Starts with Addressing Ethical Debt WIRED. September 16, 2020. (with Natalie Garrett)

Zoombombing, Technology Ethics & Awful People Being Awful | An Introduction to Ethical Debt in Tech YouTube. September 8, 2020.

Scientists Like Me Are Studying Your Tweets–Are You Okay with That? How We Get to Next. March 19, 2019.

If You’re Worried About Your Digital Footprint, Don’t Destroy It–Make it Better. Medium. January 18, 2019.

What Our Tech Ethics Crisis Says About the State of Computer Science Education. How We Get to Next. December 5, 2018.

Black Mirror, Light Mirror: Teaching Technology Ethics Through Speculation. How We Get to Next. October 15, 2018.

Tech Ethics Curricula: A Collection of Syllabi. Medium. July 5, 2018.

Why Data Sharing & Privacy Controversies Aren’t Killing Social Media Platforms. Medium. March 22, 2018.

One Way Facebook Can Stop the Next Cambridge Analytica. Slate. March 18, 2018. (With Jake Metcalf)

Law & Ethics of Scraping: What HiQ vs LinkedIn Could Mean for Researchers Violating TOS. Medium. August 15, 2017.

Press Coverage

Marketplace – 6 July 2020 – Tech companies should make it someone’s job to think about ethics

OneZero – 22 June 2020 – A tweet filled with porn noises demonstrates Twitter is unprepared for audio

YR Media – 9 July 2020 – Is Twitter trolling us? Why voice tweets are already problematic

Daily Dot – 24 April 2020 – How safe is Zoom? These are the security issues around the software

Stanford Daily – 8 November 2019 – Complexity Theory: I am just an engineer!

Tech Crunch – 5 September 2019 – Teaching ethics in computer science the right way

WIRED – 26 August 2019 – What Sci-Fi Can Teach Computer Science About Ethics

The Atlantic – 27 June 2019 – You no longer own your face 

Slate – 3 June 2019 – Should researchers be allowed to use YouTube videos and tweets?

The Nation – 21 February 2019 – Fixing Tech’s Ethics Problem Starts in the Classroom

ABC Denver7 (TV) – 21 January 2019 – Clearing your past on social media

Boing Boing – 19 November 2018 – How To Use Science Fiction to Teach Ethics

The Daily Texan – 15 October 2018 – STEM Classrooms Should Bring Ethics to the Forefront

Wired – 1 August 2018 – The sadness of deleting your old tweets

FiveThirtyEight – 27 July 2018 – Your tweets are somehow worthy of scientific study

Wired – 24 July 2018 – Was It Ethical for Dropbox to Share Customer Data with Scientists?

Lab Manager Magazine – 16 April 2018 – The data debacle: Most unaware their tweets are being studied

Lexington Herald Ledger – 12 April 2018 – Researchers use your tweets without your ok

Colorado Politics – 10 April 2018 – Colorado was potential target of Facebook data breach, IT expert says 

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Radio) – 25 March 2018 – Could the next Cambridge Analytica be prevented by opening access to data? 

The Current on CBC (Radio) – 24 March 2018 – Cambridge Analytica and ethical codes of content

KUNC Radio – 22 March 2018 – Your tweets can be used for science – with or without your permission, CU Boulder explains 

The Denver Post – 21 March 2018 – CU Boulder Study: Majority of Twitter Users Don’t Know Researchers Collect, Analyze Their Tweets

The Daily Camera – 21 March 2018 – CU Boulder study probes ethics of researchers’ use of Twitter data

The Guardian – 18 March 2018 – Data scandal is huge blow for Facebook – and efforts to study its impact on society.

Refinery29 – 18 March 2018 – Cambridge Analytica’s “expectation violation” is the new normal in elections

The Conversation – 17 January 2018 – STEAM not STEM: Why Scientists Need Arts Training

Boing Boing – 20 November 2017 – More than 50 Tech Ethics Courses, with Links to Syllabi

The Daily Camera – 23 September 2017 – At CU Boulder, Teaching Tech Companies, Researchers, How To Use Big Data Ethically

The Denver Post –  18 September 2017 – Researchers Are Studying Your Social Media; What Do You Think of That?

Fast Company – 27 August 2017 – Bots Are Scraping Your Data For Cash Amid Murky Law and Ethics