Katie Shilton, Ph.D: “Trustworthy passive data: excavating awareness and power in digital data research”

Description:

2021-2022 Digital Mental Health Lecture Series 
The Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs)
Northwestern University 

Katie Shilton, PhD, MLS, University of Maryland, College Park // College of Information Studies

“Trustworthy passive data: excavating awareness and power in digital data research”

Join us Tuesday, April 5th at:
Noon to 1pm, Central Time 

Register to attend Zoom webinar.

About our guest speaker:

Katie Shilton is an associate professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research explores ethics and policy for the design of information technologies. She is the PI of the PERVADE project, a multi-campus collaboration focused on big data research ethics. Other projects include participatory design to support automated tools for online content moderators; tracing the influence of privacy discourse in the media and among policymakers; analyzing ethical cultures in computer security research; and understanding and encouraging ethics discussions in mobile application development. Her work has been supported by a Google Faculty Award and multiple awards from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Katie received a B.A. from Oberlin College, a Master of Library and Information Science from UCLA, and a Ph.D. in Information Studies from UCLA.