Welcome back, friends. Thank you to all of you that regularly (or irregularly) reach out and say hey each week. I value learning how you’re doing in your worlds. This week I published the following: Healthy Avatars and Sick People – A piece about the challenges of critical digital literacies in the context of health…
Welcome back friends! This was a busy week. This week I also posted the following: Recognizing the Details – Learning Event #6 – Hold space and bear witness to the daily interactions that make up our lives. Development & Validation of the TILT Survey – Behind the scenes of the development and validation of the…
The Coming War Digitally Lit #271 – 12/05/2020 Thank you for being here. You are valued. This week I worked on the following: Trust, But Verify – Users of the Internet become pawns in a flow of information that circulates endlessly in the ether causing a contagion that is nearly insurmountable. Shades of Gray -…
When The Dust Settles Digitally Lit #267 – 11/7/2020 Welcome back to Digitally Literate. Thanks for showing up this week. You are appreciated. This week I worked on the following: Engaging With Activist Texts in Learning Environments – I presented this week at the Beyond the App Literacy Conference. The conference is geared to connect…
Less Is MoreDigitally Lit #215 – 9/21/2019 Hi all, my name is Ian O’Byrne and welcome to issue #215 of Digitally Literate. Thank you for stopping by. Please subscribe if you would like this to show up in your email inbox. Feel free to send along links, notes, and news you think I should include…
Lose YourselfDigitally Lit #206 – 7/20/2019 Hi all, my name is Ian O’Byrne and welcome to issue #206 of Digitally Literate. In this newsletter I distill the news of the week in technology into an easy-to-read resource. Thank you for reading. Please subscribe if you haven’t already. This week I worked on a number of…
A piece by Charles Ess & Mary Thorseth in Ethics and Information Technology Journal (2008). All annotations in context. Kant’s basic thoughts on autonomy and the public domain are highly relevant to challenges concerning modern society, particularly to communication in the public sphere. Trust is but one important topic being discussed here; openness another. Thus,…
It was late in the evening of August 16th, 1971, and twenty-two-year-old Douglas Korpi, a slim, short-statured Berkeley graduate with a mop of pale, shaggy hair, was locked in a dark closet in the…
Ben Blum on the Stanford Prison Experiment in Medium. The famous psychology experiment was apparently a sham, and yet it continues to inform criminal justice policy, education and more. It was a defining moment in what has become perhaps the best-known psychology study of all time. Whether you learned about Philip Zimbardo’s famous “Stanford Prison Experiment”…
Algorithmic Accountability examines the process of assigning responsibility for harm when algorithmic decision-making results in discriminatory and inequitable outcomes. The primer–originally prepared for the Progressive Congressional Caucus’ Tech Algorithm Briefing–explores the trade-offs debate
Big decisions about people’s lives are increasingly made by software systems and algorithms. This primer explores issues of algorithmic accountability, or the process of assigning responsibility for harm when algorithmic decision-making results in discriminatory and inequitable outcomes. There are few consumer or civil rights protections that limit the types of data used to build data…
I emailed Hannah with some specific questions. You can read these below. Under this you can find some random thoughts as I viewed. But, you should watch the video and let me know what you think. So, some questions…and this might be easier to do in a video chat if needed. Most of these are straight…