Casey Fiesler is an associate professor in the Department of Information Science (and Computer Science, by courtesy) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Armed with a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and a JD from Vanderbilt Law School, she primarily researches technology ethics and law, human-computer-interaction, and online communities (occasionally all at the same time). [curriculum vitae]
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03.20.24 I participated in the ACM SIGCSE conference on computer science education, including giving a talk about the state of CS ethics education for the workshop on “Strategies for Operationalizing the CS2023 Society-Ethics-Professionalism Recommendations” and presented our EngageCSEdu paper “Passwords and Python: Introducing Security Concepts in Lower-Division Programming.” PhD student Noah Cowit also presented our paper “How do Computing Students Conceptualize Cybersecurity? Survey Results and Strategies for Curricular Integration” and a poster “Student Preconceptions of Artificial Intelligence: Results from Single Institution Survey.”
03.14.24 I was interviewed for some news stories about the TikTok legislation before Congress, including from Vox and Reuters.
02.21.24 A paper with collaborators Michael Zimmer, Nicholas Proferes, Sarah Gilbert, and Naiyan Jones “Remember the Human: A Systematic Review of Ethical Considerations in Reddit Research” was published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction as part of the GROUP 2025 conference.
02.04.24 I was on a panel about open access AI at the Global Fractures in Technology Policy conference at the University of Colorado Law School.
01.11.24 I gave a talk for the Interactive Computing Distinguished Lecture Series at Georgia Tech, which was later covered in the student newspaper.
01.01.24 In celebration of Steamboat Willie entering the public domain, I made a YouTube video explaining how public domain functions in copyright law and what this might mean for Mickey Mouse. My university also interviewed me for a piece about public domain, Mickey Mouse, and artificial intelligence.
12.19.23 I created a YouTube video of my Night Before Christmas parody poem (fully illustrated!) about AI ethics: “‘Twas the AI Bias Before Christmas.”
12.11.23 I gave a (remote) talk (“AI for All: Public Education for Emerging Technology”) at the Advancing Research Communication Conference at Umeå University in Sweden.
12.06.23 I gave a talk for the Information Science colloquia series at University of Colorado Boulder: “When Data is People: Ethics, Privacy, and Ownership in Research and AI Uses of Public Data.”
11.27.23 A paper I co-authored with collaborators at University of Utah and Stanford was published in Transactions on Computing Education: “Teaching Ethics in Computing Education: A Systematic Literature Review of ACM Computer Science Education Publications.”
11.15.23 I participated in the Computing Research Association’s Leadership in Science Policy Institute in Washington DC.
11.08.23 I gave a (remote) talk about research ethics for a Media Literacy and Civic Cultures Lab event at Universidade Lusófona in Portugal.
11.02.23 I attended a CCC/CRA workshop on the future of social technologies research in Washington DC.
10.30.23 At the invitation of the White House, I attended the signing of President Biden’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.