The Digital Good Network: exploring equity, sustainability and resilience in people's relationships with and through digital technologies

数字良好网络：通过数字技术探索人们关系中的公平性、可持续性和复原力

• 批准号: ES/X502352/1
• 负责人: Helen Kennedy
• 金额: $ 420.98万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX502352%2F1
• 关键词: Digital; Good; Network; exploring; equity

Digital technologies are not always good for societies. Across research, policy, industry and civil society, how to define, measure and build good digital societies needs urgent attention. The digital good is ill-defined and contested, and the resulting lack of consensus can be harmful. For example, algorithmic decision-making can introduce bias under the guise of fairness; policies designed to make social media safer are experienced by users as doing the opposite. To limit future harms and ensure that digital technologies have positive outcomes, The Digital Good Network (DGN) will deliver an interdisciplinary, social science-led research programme centred on the urgent, neglected question of what the digital good should look like and how it can be achieved. DGN bridges disciplines and institutions and is global in outlook. It is led by transdisciplinary researchers at different career stages and by partners from policy, industry, community and cultural sectors. DGN will: support research projects and methodological innovation across disciplines and various dimensions of the digital good; offer internships, fellowships and training; host technology design sprints and workshops; co-produce research with policy, industry and communities; and produce a Digital Good Index, based on original research, horizon scanning and open data. Ultimately, DGN will lead to a step-change in enabling societies to realise the digital good. DGN?will generate new insights into urgent normative questions relating to people's relationships with and through digital technologies (or 'digital relationships'), by focusing on three societal challenges that are crucial to envisioning good?relationships with and through digital technologies:?equity, resilience and sustainability. The House of Lords' Beyond Digital report highlights the first two: 1) equity, because digital relationships take place in conditions of power asymmetry and structural inequity and 2) resilience, because individual and collective wellbeing, wellness and coping strategies in the face of pandemics, political conflicts, natural disasters, digital misinformation, online hate and everyday life matter in digital relationships and for our realisation of the digital good. The third societal challenge is sustainability, because planetary challenges like climate change demand that we consider whether our digital relationships are sustainable (as highlighted in UK, EU and UN policy goals). Digital relationships unfold within, are shaped by and shape societies and structures, so addressing these three pressing societal challenges is crucial to envisioning good digital relationships. DGN will expand research capacity and deliver a step-change in digital society scholarship and its impact on policy, industries and communities. It will build a network of researchers from social science disciplines and beyond, including eg cultural studies, anthropology and design from the arts and humanities, and computing and engineering from STEM. DGN activities are designed to engage researchers from diverse career stages, with expertise in diverse domains, and stakeholders from policy, practice, industries, cultural sectors and communities, to ensure research is co-produced with, responds to, and feeds into these sectors. These disciplines, career stages, domains and sectors are all represented in the DGN core team and College of Experts, who will link DGN to people, organisations and networks within and beyond these groups.

数字技术并不总是对社会有益。在研究、政策、产业和民间社会中，如何定义、衡量和建设良好的数字社会需要迫切关注。数字商品定义不清，存在争议，由此导致的缺乏共识可能是有害的。例如，算法决策可能会在公平的幌子下引入偏见;旨在使社交媒体更安全的政策在用户的体验中适得其反。为了限制未来的危害并确保数字技术产生积极的成果，数字商品网络（DGN）将提供一个跨学科的，社会科学主导的研究计划，重点是数字商品应该是什么样子以及如何实现的紧迫而被忽视的问题。 DGN连接学科和机构，具有全球视野。它由不同职业阶段的跨学科研究人员以及来自政策，行业，社区和文化部门的合作伙伴领导。DGN将：支持跨学科和数字商品各个方面的研究项目和方法创新;提供实习，奖学金和培训;举办技术设计冲刺和研讨会;与政策，行业和社区共同开展研究;并根据原始研究，地平线扫描和开放数据制作数字商品指数。最终，DGN将导致社会实现数字商品的一步变化。 DGN？将产生新的见解有关的人的关系，并通过数字技术（或“数字关系”）的紧迫的规范性问题，通过专注于三个社会挑战，是至关重要的设想好？与数字技术的关系：公平、复原力和可持续性。上议院的《超越数字》报告强调了前两点：1）公平，因为数字关系发生在权力不对称和结构不平等的条件下，2）弹性，因为个人和集体的福祉，面对流行病，政治冲突，自然灾害，数字错误信息的健康和应对策略，网络仇恨和日常生活在数字关系中以及我们实现数字利益方面都很重要。第三个社会挑战是可持续性，因为气候变化等全球性挑战要求我们考虑我们的数字关系是否可持续（正如英国，欧盟和联合国政策目标所强调的那样）。数字关系在社会和结构中展开，由社会和结构塑造，因此解决这三个紧迫的社会挑战对于设想良好的数字关系至关重要。 DGN将扩大研究能力，并在数字社会奖学金及其对政策，行业和社区的影响方面提供一个台阶式的变化。它将建立一个来自社会科学学科及其他学科的研究人员网络，包括文化研究，人类学和艺术和人文设计，以及STEM的计算和工程。DGN活动旨在吸引来自不同职业阶段的研究人员，他们拥有不同领域的专业知识，以及来自政策，实践，行业，文化部门和社区的利益相关者，以确保研究与这些部门共同制作，响应和反馈。这些学科，职业阶段，领域和部门都在DGN核心团队和专家学院中有代表，他们将把DGN与这些团体内外的人员，组织和网络联系起来。

项目成果

ACM TechBrief: The Data Trust Deficit - Second in a series on systems and trust

ACM 技术简报：数据信任赤字 - 系统和信任系列中的第二篇

• DOI: 10.1145/3605240
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Kennedy H