Digital technology in all of its forms, from personal devices to complex systems, is now embedded in human life. The experiences, and epistemological implications, of being “digital natives”and “digital immigrants” are reshaping personal relationships and societal structures. These developments also require special attention to their impact on mental and physical health, to how people work and play, and to an expanding understanding of health and wellness. CDE scholars including Cal Newport, Will Fleisher, and Meg Leta Jones are leaders in this important and wide-reaching field of study and practice; their work is featured prominently both in academic venues and in mainstream and popular media.
Intersections of Technology and Culture
The Technology and Culture Trilogy (Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World; A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload; Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World)
Blog
Podcast
The New Yorker
Digital Oblivion, Digital Consent
The Character of Consent: The History of Cookies and the Future of Technology Policy
(2024)
Ctrl + Z: The Right to be Forgotten (2016)
Are We Tumbling Toward an Adults-Only Internet? with CCT MA candidate and Fritz Fellow Mac Milin Kiran and Cal Newport
“Right to a Human in the Loop: Political Constructions of Computer Automation & Personhood from Data Banks to Algorithms” in Social Studies of Science. (2017)
Ethics and Epistemology of Artificial Intelligence
Fleisher, W. (forth.). “Intellectual Courage and Inquisitive Reasons,” Philosophical Studies.
Fleisher, W. & Šešelja, D. (2023). “Responsibility for Collective Epistemic Harms,” Philosophy of Science, 90(1): 1–20.
Fleisher, W. (2022). “Understanding, Idealization, and Explainable AI,” Episteme, 19 (4): 534–560. 5. Fleisher, W. (2022).
“What’s Fair about Individual Fairness?” Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES ’21), 480–490.
Co-organizer of the Penn-Georgetown Digital Ethics Workshop
