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“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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.