In conjunction with the new semester at UMD iSchool, two new members have joined the EViD Lab team! A warm welcome to Lisa Federer and Caitlin Christian-Lamb is necessary as they are both starting on their PhD’s! Lisa Federer is currently a full time employee at NIH where she manages data while Caitlin was previously a digital archivist at Davidson College in North Carolina.
Month: August 2017
June 1, 2017: Paper Accepted to Science, Technology & Human Values
A paper arguing that the work of internet infrastructure design poses specific barriers to developers’ reflection upon values and politics, “Engaging values despite neutrality: challenges and approaches to values reflection during the design of internet infrastructure” has been published in Science, Technology & Human Values.
Read it here: http://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/uIQnDWKdJBDCMvAJVd7g/full
May 1, 2017: Dr. Nick Proferes New Position: University of Kentucky
Nicholas Proferes, a Postdoctoral Scholar at the College of Information Studies’ Ethics and Values in Design Lab, has accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Kentucky, effective this fall. Dr. Proferes joined the University of Maryland in August 2015. While at the iSchool, Proferes has been an integral part of the Ethics and Values in Design Lab, researching how developers saw social implications of their work and the values that their work would promote.
Check out the news here: https://ischool.umd.edu/news/fond-farewell-nicholas-proferes
April 1, 2017: Second Paper with Daniel Greene Accepted!
A second paper from my project with Daniel Greene, “Platform privacies: Governance, collaboration, and the different meanings of “privacy” in iOS and Android development” has been published in New Media & Society.
March 1, 2017: Shared Paper with Daniel Greene!
I’m excited to share a new paper authored with Daniel Greene, “Linking platforms, practices, and developer ethics: Levers for privacy discourse in mobile application development”. It was recently published in the Journal of Business Ethics.
September 1, 2016: Paper Accepted to CSCW 2017
A new paper with collaborators Anne Bowser, Elizabeth Warrick, and Jennifer Preece, “Accounting for Privacy in Citizen Science: Ethical Research in a Context of Openness,” has been accepted for CSCW 2017.
August 1, 2016: U.S. National Science Foundation Awards!
With multi-campus collaborators, we’ve been awarded two new grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation:
- Search Among Secrets will create search engines for large personal datasets (such as email) that respect context-appropriate privacy norms. With Doug Oard and Jimmy Lin.
- The Development of Ethical Cultures in Computer Security Research will use historical and bibliometric methods to understand the development of ethical cultures in cybersecurity. With Megan Finn, Jevin West, and Franziska Roesner.