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Needs (2006)

• criddell 6y ago
  In the decade and a half since then, have any software philosophers emerged?
  • jasonhong 6y ago
    Helen Nissenbaum (now at Cornell Tech) wrote a famous paper framing privacy as Contextual Integrity, which has been highly influential for researchers on computer privacy as well as public policy makers. The Wikipedia entry on Contextual Integrity is pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextual_Integrity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextual_Integrity The basic idea is that rather than focusing on broad rules about privacy (like the Fair Information Practices, which underpins almost all privacy laws today), it's important to understand the norms around what is appropriate and inappropriate in specific contexts. In my field of human-computer interaction, Paul Dourish is perhaps the best known researcher that straddles philosophy and software (though I'm sure philosophers would consider him more of a software person). He has several well-known papers, e.g. on "spaces vs places" for collaborative software (http://www.dourish.com/publications/1996/cscw96-place.pdf http://www.dourish.com/publications/1996/cscw96-place.pdf), on privacy as boundary negotiation, on why ethnographic research shouldn't have to discuss implications for design (http://onemvweb.com/sources/ethnography/implication_design.pdf http://onemvweb.com/sources/ethnography/implication_design.p...), and more.
• lastofthemojito 6y ago
  Speaking of 2006 - what a terrible webpage. No infinite scrolling to choppily load comments as I scroll, no multi-megabyte banner full of photos, no sidebar that accompanies me through the page, occasionally playing peek-a-boo with the content. I mean, it just loads the entire post as HTML and renders it immediately. What savagery.