This is the final part of our tour through the papers from the Re-coding Black Mirror workshop exploring future technology scenarios and their social and ethical implications. Towards trust-based decentralized ad-hoc social networks Koidl MMM: May I mine your mind? Sempreboni and Viganò (If you don’t have ACM Digital Library access, all of the papers ... Continue Reading

This is part IV of our tour through the papers from the Re-coding Black Mirror workshop exploring future technology scenarios and their social and ethical implications. Is this the era of misinformation yet? Combining social bots and fake news to deceive the masses Wang et al. Gnirut: the trouble with being born human in an ... Continue Reading

This is part III of our tour through the papers from the Re-coding Black Mirror workshop exploring future technology scenarios and their social and ethical implications. Shut up and run: the never-ending quest for social fitness Anticoli & Basaldella May I have your attention please? Building a dystopian attention economy Helmer (If you don’t have ... Continue Reading

We’ll be looking at a couple more papers from the re-coding Black Mirror workshop today: Pitfalls of affective computing, Cooney et al. Ease and ethics of user profiling in Black Mirror, Pandit & Lewis (If you don’t have ACM Digital Library access, all of the papers in this workshop can be accessed either by following ... Continue Reading

In looking through the WWW’18 proceedings, I came across the co-located ‘Re-coding Black Mirror’ workshop. Re-coding Black Mirror is a full day workshop which explores how the widespread adoption of web technologies, principles and practices could lead to potential societal and ethical challenges as the ones depicted in Black Mirror's episodes, and how research related ... Continue Reading