“Alexa, please explain the dark side of artificial intelligence.” By Gillian Tett, Financial Times, May 29th, 2019 Read more at The Financial Times …
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New York Post | The Secret ‘Ghost Workers’ Keeping the Internet Safe
Eric Spitznagel reports on Ghost Work and the individuals working "behind the curtain" to train AI platforms for large tech companies in the New York Post, May …
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Running Out of Time: The Impact and Value of Flexibility in On-Demand Crowdwork
Hot off the presses, I'm excited to share this paper, Running Out of Time: The Impact and Value of Flexibility in On-Demand Crowdwork, co-authored with my …
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The global digital assembly line has arrived
A version of this essay originally appeared in the Op-Ed Section of The Los Angeles Times, January 10, 2016 The global digital assembly line has arrived. Its …
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L.A. Times Op-Ed on the “taskification” of jobs and the future of work
I just published a small piece from our crowdwork research in the LA Times this Sunday. It reflects on the challenges that workers face in a world of …
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The Communicators | Ethics & Personal Data Collection
"Mary Gray talked about the ethical questions raised by personal data collection on the Internet and how those data are being used for commercial and academic …
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Why LGBT Communities and Our Allies Should Care about Net Neutrality
The LGBT Technology Partnership released research that I co-authored with media scholar and sociologist Jessie Daniels earlier this year. In it, we lay out the …
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MSR Faculty Summit 2014 Ethics Panel Recap
[Cross-posted to the Social Media Collective] When the Facebook Emotions Study first made international news, I felt strongly (still do) that researchers, …
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Must-reads for how to study people’s online behavior (and navigate the ethical challenges that entails!)
I realized after posting my thoughts on how to think about social media as a site of human interaction (and all the ethical and methodological implications of …
When Science, Customer Service, and Human Subjects Research Collide. Now What?
I’m frustrated that the state of public intellectualism allows us, individually, to jump into the conversation about the recently published Facebook “Emotions” …
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