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View article: Maximizing AI reliability through anticipatory thinking and model risk audits
Maximizing AI reliability through anticipatory thinking and model risk audits Open
AI is transforming the way we live and work, with the potential to improve our lives in many ways. However, there are risks associated with AI deployments including failures of model robustness and security, explainability and interpretabi…
View article: Surveillance, Discretion and Governance in Automated Welfare
Surveillance, Discretion and Governance in Automated Welfare Open
Several scholarly studies and journalistic investigations have found that automated decision-making in welfare systems burdens claimants by forecasting their behaviour, targeting them for sanctions and surveillance and punishing them witho…
View article: Influence government: Exploring practices, ethics, and power in the use of targeted advertising by the UK state
Influence government: Exploring practices, ethics, and power in the use of targeted advertising by the UK state Open
We have identified an emerging tool being used by the UK government across a range of public bodies in the service of public policy - the online targeted advertising infrastructure and the practices, consultancy firms, and forms of experti…
View article: Privacy Worlds: Exploring Values and Design in the Development of the Tor Anonymity Network
Privacy Worlds: Exploring Values and Design in the Development of the Tor Anonymity Network Open
This paper explores, through empirical research, how values, engineering practices, and technological design decisions shape one another in the development of privacy technologies. We propose the concept of “privacy worlds” to explore the …
View article: Ethical and Responsible Iot: The Edinburgh Initiative
Ethical and Responsible Iot: The Edinburgh Initiative Open
We describe the work of an Action Group on Governance and Ethics in assessing the use of a new Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure in the University of Edinburgh. We review three
use cases of IoT at the University in the context of a …
View article: Ethical and Responsible IoT: The Edinburgh Initiative
Ethical and Responsible IoT: The Edinburgh Initiative Open
We describe the work of an Action Group on Governance and Ethics in assessing the use of a new Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure in the University of Edinburgh. We review three use cases of IoT at the University in the context of a f…
View article: Alternative Systems of Crime Control. National, Transnational, and International Dimensions
Alternative Systems of Crime Control. National, Transnational, and International Dimensions Open
The typical trial-oriented systems of criminal justice that are primarily based on the strict application of substantive criminal law have reached their functional and logistical limits in most parts of the modern legal world. As a result,…
View article: Revolution remixed? The emergence of Open Content Film-making as a viable component within the mainstream film industry
Revolution remixed? The emergence of Open Content Film-making as a viable component within the mainstream film industry Open
Our previous study of the Open Content Film-making (OCF) community Revolution Postponed? Tracing the development and limitations of open content filmmaking, Information, Communication & Society, (10.1080/1369118X.2018.1464590) had shown ho…
View article: Revolution postponed? Tracing the development and limitations of open content filmmaking
Revolution postponed? Tracing the development and limitations of open content filmmaking Open
Networked information technologies have brought about extensive changes in the production and distribution of creative cultural work. Inspired by the widespread success of Free-Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS), many proponents of open ac…
View article: Shades of Grey 2.0: Educational Gaming for Ethics
Shades of Grey 2.0: Educational Gaming for Ethics Open
The Shades of Grey education game is a team-based game that students play in a class lecturers to easily add gaming elements to their lessons. Shades of Grey is used as a mechanism to encourage the student discussion and debate of the ethi…
View article: Information and communication technologies for informal carers and paid assistants: benefits from micro-, meso-, and macro-levels
Information and communication technologies for informal carers and paid assistants: benefits from micro-, meso-, and macro-levels Open
View article: Best practices for interdisciplinary research supporting the development of digital games for personal empowerment and social inclusion
Best practices for interdisciplinary research supporting the development of digital games for personal empowerment and social inclusion Open
Digital games are increasingly used in initiatives promoting personal empowerment and social inclusion (PESI) of disadvantaged groups. There is a lack of knowledge regarding best practices however. The literature on game-based learning ins…