<p>Seminar, four hours; discussion, one hour. Exploration of moral, social, political, and ethical ramifications of choices we make at different stages in social construction of data. Includes cultivating critical analysis of processes of data collection, data mining, data storage, and deployment of data affected by variety of different communities, publics, nation-states, and individuals. Students learn basics of ethical and socially just frameworks to assess range of data-driven projects and platforms. Students gain understanding of social, historical, and political dilemmas of big data, algorithmic decision-making, predictive analytics, and distinct challenges associated with ethical, civil-, human-, and sovereign-rights models of engaging modern digital information era. Letter grading.</p>

Information Studies

The school engages in fundamental work on what matters most in education and information studies in the 21st century: the discovery and application of usable knowledge at the crossroads of policy and practice.

School of Education and Information Studies

The principal goal of research and practice in information studies is to support the making of culture and community in an increasingly pluralist, globalizing world.

General Catalog

Data and Ethics in Society

INF STD 118

5 units