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]

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

03.09.21 I received an NSF CAREER award for my work on Scaffolding Ethical Speculation in Technology  Design.  My college wrote up  a nice piece about this work: Intervention! How Ethical Speculation Could Prevent Future Tech Trouble

03.09.21 I spoke on a panel titled “On the Ethics of AI: What does it mean to uncover our blindspots?” at Princeton University’s Envision Conference.

03.08.21 I spoke on a panel for UCLA law school’s IP Law Students Association on Copyright and Fair Use in Online Spaces.

03.16.21 I was quoted in an Elle article about the online community around Peloton.

03.19.21 Two papers out of my lab were presented at SIGCSE 2021;  I published a blog post about them collectively (“What ‘counts’ as computer science?“) and posted a video essay about ethics in computer science education.

03.19.21 My work on social media research ethics was mentioned in a Protocol article: “Platforms vs. PhDs: How tech giants court and crush the people who study them”

03.12.21 I participated in a MozFest 2021 panel: “So You Want to be a Tech Ethicist? No Scrubs Edition.”

03.05.21 I led a tutorial on teaching data ethics for the ACM FAccT conference.

03.03.21 I gave a talk for Eastern Connecticut State University’s “university hour” series “Growing Their Own: Lessons from Community-Driven, Feminist Technology Design”

02.26.21 I was part of a virtual town hall hosted by  EFF about copyright for internet content creators.

02.25.21 I spoke on a panel for the ACM HotMobile 2021 conference: “Ethics and Policy of AI Technologies in/for Mobile and IoT Systems.”

02.17.21 I spoke to the Boulder Business Women’s Leadership Group about social media ethics.

02.10.21 I moderated a panel about ethics and law at Silicon Flatirons’ conference on trust and trusthworthiness in the tech industry.

[News Archive]