Events and Announcements

I'm pleased to announce the Social Responsibility in Technology Symposium at UMBC! We have organized a special day of panels, talks, posters, and an invited speaker. This year the event is...

Universities are being called to revise their approaches to education to incorporate greater attention to social responsibility, specifically for students expected to participate in technology...

"...To train students in implementation, instructors need to introduce students to stakeholders and teach them how to get stakeholder buy-in as they are developing their ideas. Consider again the...

"...It is time to initiate Imagination Studies at every level of education, primary school through university. Studying the imagination – its creations, its processes (creativity), and its...

“I’ve been studying marginalized communities’ relationships with science and technology, and have a depth of understanding that these communities don’t only see peril, but also promise,” says...

"...No small fixes can address the larger and deeply rooted structural issues that foreground how these technologies are deployed or weaponized. However, in centering, consulting, and...

"...As the graduate program director at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s College of Engineering and Information Technology, Woodrow Winchester III is used to discussing bold ideas...

"...More generally, as noted by Brossard (2019), cultivating social imagination and investing in cultural and social capital is important for initiating real-world implementations of utopian...

"...As more and more health features get built into wearable devices, they’re becoming a major tool used both for individual people’s health and for medical research. But if groups like the ones...

"...In other words, embedded within any algorithm is a value judgment about what to prioritize. For example, developers have to decide whether they want to be accurate in portraying what society...