We are excited to announce our edited collection Algorithmic Rights and
Protections for Children
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545488/algorithmic-rights-and-protections-for-children/,
will be released from MIT Press on June 27!
Blurb:
Algorithmic Rights and Protections for Children
Editors:
Mizuko Ito, Remy Cross, Karthik, Dinakar and Candice Odgers
Essays on the challenges and risks of designing algorithms and platforms
for children, with an emphasis on algorithmic justice, learning, and equity.
One in three Internet users worldwide is a child, and what children see and
experience online is increasingly shaped by algorithms. Though children's
rights and protections are at the center of debates on digital privacy,
safety, and Internet governance, the dominant online platforms have not
been constructed with the needs and interests of children in mind. The
editors of this volume, Mizuko Ito, Remy Cross, Karthik Dinakar, and
Candice Odgers, focus on understanding diverse children's evolving
relationships with algorithms, digital data, and platforms and offer
guidance on how stakeholders can shape these relationships in ways that
support children's agency and protect them from harm.
This book includes essays reporting original research on educational
programs in AI relational robots and Scratch programming, on children's
views on digital privacy and artificial intelligence, and on discourses
around educational technologies. Shorter opinion pieces add the
perspectives of an instructional designer, a social worker, and parents.
The contributing social, behavioral, and computer scientists represent
perspectives and contexts that span education, commercial tech platforms,
and home settings. They analyze problems and offer solutions that elevate
the voices and agency of parents and children. Their essays also build on
recent research examining how social media, digital games, and learning
technologies reflect and reinforce unequal childhoods.
Contributors:
Paulo Blikstein, Izidoro Blikstein, Marion Boulicault, Cynthia Breazeal,
Michelle Ciccone, Sayamindu Dasgupta, Devin Dillon, Stefania Druga,
Jacqueline M. Kory-Westlund, Aviv Y. Landau, Benjamin Mako Hill, Adriana
Manago, Siva Mathiyazhagan, Maureen Mauk, Stephanie Nguyen, W. Ian O'Byrne,
Kathleen A. Paciga, Milo Phillips-Brown, Michael Preston, Stephanie M.
Reich, Nicholas D. Santer, Allison Stark, Elizabeth Stevens, Kristen
Turner, Desmond Upton Patton, Veena Vasudevan, Jason Yip
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B. Remy Cross, Ph.D.
Research Manager
Connected Learning Lab
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
Phone: (949)-278-8927
Pronouns: he/him/his