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This page lists subscribers to the crowdwork-ethics newsletter at the end of calendar year 2013. It is hoped that this will contribute eventually to the development of an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral community of researchers and practitioners working on ethical issues in crowd work. There is no guarantee that this list will be maintained, however.
If you would like your name removed from this list, please email Six Silberman at silberman.six@gmail.com.
This page was last updated 25 Dec 2013.
Cecilia R. Aragon (wikipedia entry) is an associate professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington.
Vanessa Barth works for the Board of Directors of IG Metall (wikipedia entry), the largest trade union in Germany, in the IT and students division.
Gilbert Bernstein is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University.
Michael Bernstein is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he directs the Human-Computer Interaction group.
Anna-Lisa Bowans is impact account manager at MobileWorks.
Brian Butler is an associate professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland.
Miriam A. Cherry (SSRN page) is a professor in the School of Law at the Saint Louis University. Her scholarship is interdisciplinary and focuses on the intersection of technology and globalization with business, contract, and employment law topics. In her recent work, Professor Cherry analyzes crowdfunding, markets for corporate social responsibility, virtual work, and social entrepreneurship.
Roberta Cuel is an assistant professor in the Deparment of Economics and Management at the University of Trento.
Susan Fussell is an associate professor in the Department of Susan Fussell, Ph.D.Communication and Department of Information Science at Cornell University. Her research focuses on interpersonal communication in face-to-face and computer-mediated contexts.
Mary L. Gray (Microsoft Research page; Indiana University page) is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research and an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Melissa Gregg (blog) is principal engineer at the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing.
Lilly Irani (blog) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. Her work examines design practices in situ to understand their relationships with broader cultural, political, and social processes. She is one of the designers and maintainers of Turkopticon.
Thomas Klebe is the general counsel of IG Metall.
Anand Kulkarni is co-founder and CEO of MobileWorks.
Matt Lease is an assistant professor in the School of Information and Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin.
Vili Lehdonvirta is a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Jan Marco Leimeister is a professor of business information systems at Kässel University.
Katherine Lo is a recent graduate of the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine.
M. Lynne Markus (wikipedia entry) is John W. Poduska, Sr. Professor of Information and Process Management at Bentley University and a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan’s Center for Information Systems Research.
Moshe Marvit is a fellow of The Century Foundation. He practices law in Pittsburgh and is the coauthor, with Century Foundation senior fellow Richard D. Kahlenberg, of Why Labor Organizing Should be a Civil Right: Rebuilding a Middle-Class Democracy by Enhancing Worker Voice (Century Foundation Press, 2012).
Mitar Milutinović is a graduate student researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
Tim Olsen (university webpage) is clinical assistant professor of information systems in the W. P. Carey School of Business at the Arizona State University.
Winifred Poster is an adjunct instructor in the School of Social Work at Washington University, St. Louis and a visiting scholar at the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing.
Niloufar Salehi is a Ph.D. student in the Deparment of Computer Science at Stanford University. She works with Michael Bernstein and Lilly Irani.
Florian Schmidt is a design research and Ph.D. candidate in the department of Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art in London. His thesis investigates the impact of the open-source-movement on design, with a special focus on the methods of crowdsourcing.
Trebor Scholz teaches in the Department of Culture and Media Studies at The New School for Liberal Arts in New York City. He is an artist, writer, and conference organizer and the chair of the conference series The Politics of Digital Culture, hosted at The New School.
Aaron Shaw is assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University and a faculty associate of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He studies collective action, collaboration, and mobilization online.
M. Six Silberman is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. He works with Bill Tomlinson and Bonnie Nardi. He is one of the designers and maintainers of Turkopticon and the maintainer of the crowdwork-ethics resource.
Luke Stark is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He works with Helen Nissenbaum. His dissertation research focuses on the history and philosophy of digital media technology and its use in tracking, modulating and shaping the anxious, everyday emotional lives of users. More broadly, Luke’s scholarship explores the changing nature of human subjectivity in the computational age.
Sebastian Strube is a radio producer with Bayerischer Rundfunk (wikipedia entry), the public radio broadcaster in the state of Bavaria, Germany.
Dahn Tamir is the CTO at Techlist.
Mitali Thakor is a Ph.D. student in the Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She studies sex work, sex trafficking, technology, and digital forensics, using feminist science and technology studies and critical race studies to explore the ways in which activists, computer scientists, lawyers, and law enforcement officials negotiate their relationships to anti-trafficking via emergent technologies and discourses of carceral control.
Shuheng Wu is a doctoral candidate in the School of Library and Information Studies at the Florida State University. Her research interests are in the intersection of knowledge organization (KO) and sociotechnical systems, applying them for scientific data management and curation and image indexing.