Not Your PAPAS’ Problem—Users and Ethical Use Cases in the Big Data Analytics Age: A Rejoinder to Richardson, Petter, and Carter

Richardson, Petter, and Carter (2021) courageously challenge the IS discipline to address the ethical concerns that surround using big data analytics. We need to take up their challenge. However, embracing and educating ethical principles alone will not suffice to prevent abuses because the problems...

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Published inCommunications of the Association for Information Systems Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 462 - 467
Main Author Markus, M. Lynne
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Atlanta Association for Information Systems 2021
Subjects
Big Data
Data analysis
Ethics
Mathematical analysis
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Summary:Richardson, Petter, and Carter (2021) courageously challenge the IS discipline to address the ethical concerns that surround using big data analytics. We need to take up their challenge. However, embracing and educating ethical principles alone will not suffice to prevent abuses because the problems involve multiple actors and because value conflicts will inevitably occur. To accomplish the ambitious goals that Richardson et al. (2021) discuss, IS scholars need to develop an extensive body of knowledge about the myriad and diverse circumstances—use cases, if you will—in which ethical concerns arise in developing, deploying, and using big data analytics.
ISSN:1529-3181
1529-3181
DOI:10.17705/1CAIS.04921