Do you have a favorite reading (accessible for undergrads) that pitches/justifies turning away from conventional Western ethical frameworks and/or applied professional ethics codes when discussing ‘ethics’ (in data, in tech, in info, etc...)?
Less vague: I am teaching a course that has been generically titled “data ethics” but will mostly be engaging social/cultural/political debates surrounding data technologies (like inclusive vs abolitionist approaches to FRT, for example).
But I am looking for something concise for the opening units that helps make this pivot explicit (like, why it is still doing ethics even if we ignore those things most often dubbed “ethics” like deontology/utilitarianism/etc...).
(To be clear: I can and do have my own ways of justifying this move and setting expectations with students in class, just looking to supplement with some other readings...)
Or, to be even more direct: what reading would YOU assign to help the uninitiated undergrad understand why in a “data ethics” class we aren’t reading a book with “ethics” in the title but, instead, are reading @ruha9 Race After Technology closely for the first month? 😝
FWIW: I’m not looking for ‘other’ frameworks and I specifically don’t want the ethics version of multiculturalism. I want active decentering of dominant discourses so as to bring other debates to the fore. (And to justify that move as ethically necessary in itself!)
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