Writing

Beyond my scholarly research and publications, I try to contribute to broader public discussions of ethics, information, data, social media, identity, and privacy. I want the work that I do to be accessible beyond the walls of the academy. While there are many ways one can be an engaged scholar, writing for broader audiences is one way to work towards that goal.

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)

MISCELLANEOUS

• On Sia’s “Breathe Me” & Six Feet Under – One Week/One Band (2014)

• Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall: The Leaked Screenplay – The Toast (2014)

• Robyn: Jag Vet En Dejlig Rosa – One Week/One Band (2013)