Media

Interviews, talks, quotes.

PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP, ESSAYS, AND EDITORIALS

• “Altered is the Fashion of the Earth”: Teaching and Learning During a Global Pandemic (For My Students) - Medium (2020)

• FEMINIST DATA MANIFEST-NO (2019)

• The language we use to describe data can also help us fix its problems - Quartz (2019)

• The privacy risks of unchecked facial recognition technology - The Seattle Times (2019) [PDF]

• Data Violence and How Bad Engineering Choices Can Damage Society – Medium (2018)

• Facebook doesn’t need a chief ethics officer – Slate (2017)

• Data science and expanding our sources of ethical inspiration – CTSP Blog (2016)

• Ethics in data project design: It’s about planning – O’Reilly (2016)

• The Zuckerberg Files: Everything the Facebook CEO has said publicly – The Guardian (2016)

• Tech’s other diversity problem: Inclusive product design – Women 2.0 (2016)

• Facebook has a new process for discussing ethics. But is it ethical? – The Guardian (2016)

• Privacy, Injustice, and Self-Respect – ALA Choose Privacy Week (2016)

• Facebook is worried about users sharing less – but it only has itself to blame – The Guardian (2016)

• Inside Out, Silicon Valley, and Why Technologizing Emotion and Memory Is a Dangerous Idea – LA Review of Books (2015)

• Science Will Not Save Us: Medicine, Research Ethics, and My Transgender Body – Autostraddle (2014)

• Reckoning with a Decade of Breaking Things: Facebook’s Enduring Contempt for the World – Model View Culture (2014)

BOOK REVIEWS

• A Microsoft researcher confronts how companies shape what we see and say online (review of Tarleton Gillespie’s Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media) – Science (2018)

• Biased tech design prompts a writer to call for resistance (review of Sara Wachter-Boettcher’s Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech) – Science (2017)

IN OTHER MEDIA

• Tumblr: On Refusal (GIF blog companion to the Feminist Data Manifest-No)

• UW iSchool: A “fireside chat” with activist and data scientist Sam Sinyangwe

• KUOW: Should we treat data more like a natural resource?

• CritPlat: Connecting the Dots: Racism and White Supremacy in Algorithmic Systems

• KUOW: Would you send your nude photo to Facebook?

• The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Anna Lauren Hoffmann

QUOTED/MENTIONED IN…

• Los Angeles Times: Do you really want Amazon’s new drugstore knowing your medical condition?

• OneZero: To Understand Facebook Today, Read Its Earliest Critics

• Crosscut: Technology vs. privacy: Washington looks to regulate facial recognition tools in 2020

• MIT Technology Review: Hey Google, sorry you lost your ethics council, so we made on for you

• UW Daily: Are machines inherently racist?

• USA Today: The problem with AI? Study says it’s too white and male, calls for more women, minorities

• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Intelligente Maschinen hinter ethischen Rauchwänden [PDF]

• Slate: Ethics alone can’t fix big tech

• The Daily (UW): White supremacy and tech: Panelists discuss bias in data and algorithms

• OneZero: The Problem With Instagram’s Plan to Reduce Sexually Suggestive Content: It’s Sexist

• The Guardian: Dallas, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile: should Facebook show violent videos?

• Slate: Mark Zuckerberg’s long history of mea culpas

• Wall Street Journal: Facebook Employees Pushed to Remove Trump’s Posts as Hate Speech

• Broadly: Women of Color Are Using VR to Imagine a More Inclusive World

• Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Making sure Facebook’s creator is also followed

• Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Budget bill busts up cyber friendships

• Men’s Health: How private is the new Facebook?