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14Excavating awareness and power in data science: A manifesto for trustworthy pervasive data researchBig Data and Society 8 (2). 2021.Frequent public uproar over forms of data science that rely on information about people demonstrates the challenges of defining and demonstrating trustworthy digital data research practices. This paper reviews problems of trustworthiness in what we term pervasive data research: scholarship that relies on the rich information generated about people through digital interaction. We highlight the entwined problems of participant unawareness of such research and the relationship of pervasive data res…Read more
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144Where are human subjects in Big Data research? The emerging ethics divideBig Data and Society 3 (1). 2016.There are growing discontinuities between the research practices of data science and established tools of research ethics regulation. Some of the core commitments of existing research ethics regulations, such as the distinction between research and practice, cannot be cleanly exported from biomedical research to data science research. Such discontinuities have led some data science practitioners and researchers to move toward rejecting ethics regulations outright. These shifts occur at the same …Read more
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17Editorial PrefaceEnvironmental Philosophy 9 (1): 5-14. 2012.The collection of essays in this special issue of Environmental Philosophy addresses the role that temporality, or lived time, should have in environmental philosophy, and especially ethics. The role of time in environmental ethics has largely been restricted to an empty container for human agency to do good or ill. By understanding time as material, produced, constructed, maintained, lived, multiple, and a more-than-human concern, the authors in this collection are able to ask which times are l…Read more
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1565Intimacy without ProximityEnvironmental Philosophy 5 (2): 99-128. 2008.Using grizzly-human encounters as a case study, this paper argues for a rethinking of the differences between humans and animals within environmental ethics. A diffractive approach that understands such differences as an effect of specific material and discursive arrangements (rather than as pre-settled and oppositional) would see ethics as an interrogation of which arrangements enable flourishing, or living and dying well. The paper draws on a wide variety of human-grizzly encounters in order t…Read more
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University of California, Santa CruzDepartment of PhilosophyOther faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)
Santa Cruz, California, United States of America