Casey Fiesler is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Science (and Computer Science, by courtesy) at the University of Colorado Boulder.  Armed with a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and a JD from Vanderbilt Law School, she primarily researches social computing, ethics, law, and fan communities (occasionally all at the same time). [curriculum vitae]

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Here is a link to my research lab page! The Internet Rules Lab

If you’re looking for a giant spreadsheet of tech ethics curricula, here!
If you’re looking for my Computer Engineer Barbie remix, here!
For an overview of my tech ethics-related research, here!
For an overview of my fandom-related research, here!

NEWS

12.10.21 I was on a plenary panel for NeurIPS 2021: “How should a machine learning research think about AI ethics?”  Fortune also quoted me in an article recapping highlights of the conference.

12.08.21 I have a talk for the NYU Center for Data Science titled “Data Is People: Unintended Consequences in AI & Data Science.” I also tweeted this talk!

12.01.21 An essay I wrote about AI ethics and science fiction appeared in StoryThings

10.27.21 CU Boulder Today did a nice write-up of our research about Black Twitter led by PhD student Shamika Klassen, and it was subsequently covered by The Root, Boulder Weekly, The Denver Post, and Shamika was interviewed on MSNBC and 9 News.

10.23.21 The ACM CSCW conference was 10/23-10/27, and there were a number of papers from our department published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, including including my cco-authored papers: “A Framework of Severity for Harmful Content Online” (led by Morgan Klaus Scheuerman), “Supporting Serendipity: Opportunities and Challenges for Human-AI Collaboration in Qualitative Analysis” (led by Aaron Jiang), and “More than a Modern Day Green Book: Exploring the Online Community of Black Twitter” (led by Shamika Klassen) , which was awarded an Honorable Mention and a Recognition for Contributions to Diversity and Inclusion. I also chaired the SIGCHI Research Ethics panel at the conference.

10.20.21 I wrote a blog post about the return of Yik Yak and how it relates to social media’s current ethical challenges.

10.09.21 I spoke to Insider about a piece of viral content on TikTok.

10.04.21 I was on local news (FOX 31) talking about implications of the Facebook outage.

09.21.21 I was featured in a piece for O’Reilly Radar about social media ethics.

09.16.21 There is a profile of me in the Responsible Tech Guide created by All Tech is Human.

09.15.21 My collaborators and I from the PERVADE research ethics project, led by Katie Shilton, have a new paper out in Big Data & Society: Excavating awareness and power in data science: A manifesto for trustworthy pervasive data research.

09.01.21 I was featured in this Nature piece: “What makes us tick: lab leaders describe their research philosophies”

08.27.21 Out now in PLOS One, “Understanding international perceptions of the severity of harmful content online” led by former PhD student Aaron Jiang.

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