danah boyd on Owning Ethics in Silicon Valley

danah boyd on Owning Ethics in Silicon Valley

Alum danah boyd with Emmanuel Moss and Jacob Metcalf published on corporate logics, Silicon Valley, and the Institutionalization of ethics. The Data & Society co-founder and researchers investigate the tensions that arise when adapting ethics initiatives at Silicon Valley tech companies.

"By talking with people who are at the forefront of thinking through ethics from within the technology sector, we found that the commitment to ethics is in tension with—and at risk of being absorbed within—broader and longer-standing industry commitments to meritocracy, technological solutionism, and market fundamentalism.”

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