MI Virtual Lunchtime Seminar: Why data ethics? Why now? - Madeleine Murtagh
Location:
Blackboard Collaborate
Date/time
Tue 9 June 2020
13:00-14:15
MI Virtual Lunchtime Seminar: Prof. Madeleine Murtagh, University of Glasgow
Why data ethics? Why now?
Please note that this seminar will be hosted on Blackboard Collaborate. Instructions for joining the session will be sent on registration.
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Abstract:
It now seems almost trite to note the datafication of contemporary life. Data is produced in our every action and reaction, used to monitor and audit, predict and persuade. In the bio and social sciences these data uses have multiple material impacts. In step, or in response, new instantiations of data ethics are emerging. Using examples from past and ongoing work, I outline (and problematise) several ways in which data ethics is 'becoming' and explore the contested epistemic terrain in which these practices are situated, asking two key questions:
How do power and inequalities get written into or out of the data available for analyses in biosocial research?
How do contemporary scientific practices (structural and epistemic) support or counter epistemic injustice(s)?
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