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“… They don’t really listen to people”: Young people’s concerns and recommendations for improving online experiences (2019)
Journal Article
Creswick, H., Dowthwaite, L., Koene, A., Vallejos, E. P., Portillo, V., Cano, M., & Woodard, C. (2019). “… They don’t really listen to people”: Young people’s concerns and recommendations for improving online experiences. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 17(2), 167-182. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-11-2018-0090

© 2019, Helen Creswick, Liz Dowthwaite, Ansgar Koene, Elvira Perez Vallejos, Virginia Portillo, Monica Cano and Christopher Woodard. Purpose: The voices of children and young people have been largely neglected in discussions of the extent to which th... Read More about “… They don’t really listen to people”: Young people’s concerns and recommendations for improving online experiences.

A comparison of presentation methods for conducting youth juries (2019)
Journal Article
Dowthwaite, L., Perez Vallejos, E., Koene, A., Cano, M., & Portillo, V. (2019). A comparison of presentation methods for conducting youth juries. PLoS ONE, 14(6), Article e0218770. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218770

The 5Rights Youth Juries are an educational intervention to promote digital literacy by engaging participants (i.e. jurors) in a deliberative discussion around their digital rights. The main objective of these jury-styled focus groups is to encourage... Read More about A comparison of presentation methods for conducting youth juries.

“It would be pretty immoral to choose a random algorithm”: Opening up algorithmic interpretability and transparency (2019)
Journal Article
Webb, H., Patel, M., Rovatsos, M., Davoust, A., Ceppi, S., Koene, A., …Cano, M. (2019). “It would be pretty immoral to choose a random algorithm”: Opening up algorithmic interpretability and transparency. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 17(2), 210-228. https://doi.org/10.1108/jices-11-2018-0092

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on empirical work conducted to open up algorithmic interpretability and transparency. In recent years, significant concerns have arisen regarding the increasing pervasiveness of algorithms and the impac... Read More about “It would be pretty immoral to choose a random algorithm”: Opening up algorithmic interpretability and transparency.

UnBias Youth Juries (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Dowthwaite, L., Creswick, H., Portillo, V., Cano, M., Vallejos, E. P., Koene, A., & Patel, M. (2018). UnBias Youth Juries. In SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society (276-280). https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217928

The UnBias Youth Juries engage young people in discussion of issues that affect their online lives, especially in relation to algorithms, through the presentation of scenarios and prompts. Results from the first wave of juries, held in February 2017,... Read More about UnBias Youth Juries.

Young people's policy recommendations on algorithm fairness (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Perez, E., Koene, A., Portillo, V., Dowthwaite, L., & Cano, M. (2017). Young people's policy recommendations on algorithm fairness. In WebSci '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference (247-251). https://doi.org/10.1145/3091478.3091512

This paper explores the policy recommendations made by young people regarding algorithm fairness. It describes a piece of ongoing research developed to bring children and young people to the front line of the debate regarding children's digital right... Read More about Young people's policy recommendations on algorithm fairness.

Juries: acting out digital dilemmas to promote digital reflections (2015)
Journal Article
Vallejos, E. P., Pothong, K., Coleman, S., Koene, A., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., …O'Malley, C. (2015). Juries: acting out digital dilemmas to promote digital reflections. Computers and Society, 45(3), 84-90. https://doi.org/10.1145/2874239.2874252

A quick journey through prevention science (e.g., substance misuse prevention) and a comparison between online and offline risks, harm, and vulnerability in children suggests that new approaches and interventions are needed to promote Internet safety... Read More about Juries: acting out digital dilemmas to promote digital reflections.