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Collective Organizing and Social Responsibility at CSCW

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Devansh Saxena,

Erhardt Graeff,

EunJeong Cheon,

Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar,

Christoph Becker,

Kenneth R. FleischmannAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Pages 503 - 509

https://doi.org/10.1145/3406865.3418593

Published: 17 October 2020 Publication History

Abstract

The CSCW community has long discussed the ethics and politics of sociotechnical systems and how they become embedded in society and public policy. In light of the Black Lives Matter protests and Hong Kong protests, technologies such as facial recognition and contact tracing have re-invigorated conversations about the ethical and social responsibility of tech corporations, tech workers, and academics in science and technology. The goal of this workshop is to move beyond a call for the usual suspects of participatory design and human-centered design by committing to concrete steps to transform society through advocacy and activism.

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Fernandes KAlharbi RSum CKameswaran VSpektor FThuppilikkat APetterson AMarathe MHamidi FChandra PFarzan RLópez CCardoso Llach DQuercia DMustafa MNiu SWong-Villacrés M(2024)Organizing for More Just and Inclusive Futures: A Community DiscussionCompanion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing10.1145/3678884.3687143(689-692)Online publication date: 11-Nov-2024
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Collective Organizing and Social Responsibility at CSCW
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing profession

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