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Birds, Mastodons, and Ethical Choices

February 22, 2023 by Meghan Dennis

The past few months…even the past week, has been a LOT in the world of social media. The acquisition of Twitter resulted in a digital mass migration to Mastodon and other online places, disrupting online communities that were years in the making. Projects using Twitter for outreach (like us!) or data collection are having to […]

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Digital Data Dangers, DENIED!

July 26, 2022 by Meghan Dennis

A few weeks ago, Meghan, our Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Interpretation and Public Engagement, (who’s a bit of an #ethics nerd) attended a training session organized by the Data Hazards project. This facilitator training taught how to run sessions with the project’s Data Hazards labels — think of them as like warning labels on household […]

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Ethical Governance and Artificial Intelligence

October 7, 2021 by Eric Kansa

Recently, the National Science Foundation (NSF) together with the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a Request for Information to inform the development of federal government infrastructure to support research with AI (see here). What does this request have to do with archaeology in general, and AAI/Open Context programs in particular? For the […]

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But Our Ethics are in Another Castle!

May 24, 2021 by Meghan Dennis

Earlier this year, two members of The Alexandria Archive team (AAI), Dr. Meghan Dennis and Dr. Leigh Anne Lieberman, were appointed Research Associates at University of California, Berkeley’s Archaeological Research Facility (or, the ARF). The ARF strives to encourage, facilitate, and expedite field and laboratory research conducted by archaeologists and related specialists engaged with the […]

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Literacy = People

April 9, 2021 by Meghan Dennis

In the Digital Data Stories project, we spend a lot of time thinking about people. This may seem odd, as our current work involves a lot of numbers and a lot of cow bones, but at the heart of it, our work is fundamentally about people. This is because literacy is fundamentally about people. My […]

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