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228Planning for Ethical Agent-Agent InteractionGood Systems: Ethical AI for CSCW, Workshop at CSCW '19: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. 2019.In this position paper for the 2019 CSCW workshop Good Systems: Ethical AI for CSCW I propose one tool and one idea for navigating the complex ethical problem space that results from the interaction of human and/or AI agents in shared, hopefully cooperative, computing environments.
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379Information research, practice, and education continue to invite and benefit from philosophyEducation for Information 33 (1): 1-2. 2017.It has become easy to make a case for the relevance, richness, and importance of philosophical thinking for information research and practice. [Introduction to a special issue]
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419What an Entangled Web We Weave: An Information-centric Approach to Time-evolving Socio-technical SystemsMinds and Machines 28 (4): 709-733. 2018.A new layer of complexity, constituted of networks of information token recurrence, has been identified in socio-technical systems such as the Wikipedia online community and the Zooniverse citizen science platform. The identification of this complexity reveals that our current understanding of the actual structure of those systems, and consequently the structure of the entire World Wide Web, is incomplete, which raises novel questions for data science research but also from the perspective of so…Read more
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729Information-not-thing: further problems with and alternatives to the belief that information is physicalProceedings of 2017 CAIS-ACSI Conference. 2017.In this short paper, we show that a popular view in information science, information-as-thing, fails to account for a common example of information that seems physical. We then demonstrate how the distinction between types and tokens, recently used to analyse Shannon information, can account for this same example by viewing information as abstract, and discuss existing definitions of information that are consistent with this approach. Dans ce court article nous montrons qu'une vision populaire e…Read more
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496Practical and Philosophical Considerations for Defining Information as Well-formed, Meaningful Data in the Information SciencesLibrary Trends 63 (3): 378-400. 2015.This paper demonstrates the practical and philosophical strengths of adopting Luciano Floridi’s “general definition of information” (GDI) for use in the information sciences (IS). Many definitions of information have been proposed, but little work has been done to determine which definitions are most coherent or useful. Consequently, doubts have been cast on the necessity and possibility of finding a definition. In response to these doubts, the paper shows how items and events central to IS are …Read more
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Humboldt University, BerlinJunior Professor
Berlin, Germany
Areas of Specialization
Information Science |
Philosophy of Information |
Conceptions of Information |
Information Ethics |
Areas of Interest
The Infosphere |
Information Theory |
Computer Science |
Personal Identity and Values |