Below are links to some of the blogging work I did as a Digital Scholarship Intern for Carleton College, as well as a brief explanation of the topic covered. More articles are available through the same blog, but these are a few to start with.
Published 2/7/2020, this article is a brief summary of the issues around a digital app commissioned for use in the Iowa Democratic Caucus. The app was not used to record votes; rather, it was meant for precincts to report their voting totals. However, there were many technical issues with the app, which caused major delays when tallying the votes and a great deal of distrust around the final reports.
This piece is a breakdown of how to address organizational and motivational issues in day-to-day life, as COVID-19 forced people into a work-from-home self-governed digital workspace. Published on 4/17/2020, it addresses how to analyze and address the problems you’re facing with humor and grace, then recommends useful resources.
This post, published 2/29/2020, covers Gradescope and TurnItIn, two sources of academic software which have sparked concern over their ability to accurately grade work and protection of their users’ privacy. I combed through Gradescope’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, checking for any legal issues that would concern Carleton, and summed them up.
This article is a short summary of the California Consumer Privacy Act, published 1/24/2020. It covers the core principles of the act, who those principles apply to, and what the projected impact of the CCPA is, while also touching on the European GDPR laws as a comparison point.
