Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce that we are able to live-stream the keynotes from this year’s Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys (MASS) workshop. You can join the keynotes in person at the University of Manchester or online for free but registration is required.

22^nd of June 2023, 15:30-16:30 (BST)/16:30-17:30 (CEST)/10:30am-11:30am (EST)
Contextual Integrity in Theory and Empirical Application
Helen Nissenbaum(Cornell Tech)
Sponsored by the Centre for Digital Trust and Society
Link to registration page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contextual-integrity-in-theory-and-empirical-application-tickets-643026508597

23^th of June 2023, 13:00-14:00 (BST)/14:00-15:00 (CEST)/8:00am-9:00am (EST)
The Promise of Activity Space Approaches: Urban/Rural Comparisons and Implications for Research on Context
Kathleen Cagney (University of Michigan)
Sponsored by the National Centre for Research Methods
Link to registration page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-promise-of-activity-space-approaches-tickets-641197227167

Details of the talks below.

Best regards,

Details of the talks

Contextual Integrity in Theory and Empirical Application
22^rd of June, 15:30 – 16:30 (BST)

Abstract: The theory of contextual integrity (CI) defines privacy as appropriate flow of personal information, answering the need for a conception of privacy that is meaningful to ordinary people, explains privacy's ethical claim, and underscores why privacy deserves protection through regulation and technology. In the 2010 book, I argued that CI meets all three benchmarks, while releasing privacy from the grips of one-dimensional definitions -- control over information about ourselves, stoppage of flow (secrecy), and fetishization of specific, “sensitive” attributes (e.g. identity, health.) Since then, our understanding of CI has been further shaped and informed by studies based on social scientific methods and, in turn, has informed and shaped them. My talk briefly describes key ideas defining contextual integrity, focusing on its interconnections with empirical social scientific studies of privacy.

Bio: Helen Nissenbaum is a professor of Information Science and founding director of the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech, NYC. Her work on ethical and political dimensions of digital technologies spans issues of privacy, bias, trust online, design, and accountability in computational and algorithmic systems. Prof. Nissenbaum’s publications, which include the books, Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest, with Finn Brunton (MIT Press, 2015), Values at Play in Digital Games, with Mary Flanagan (MIT Press, 2014), and Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life (Stanford, 2010), have been translated into seven languages, including Polish, Chinese, and Portuguese. Recipient of the 2014 Barwise Prize of the American Philosophical Association and the IACAP Covey Award for computing, ethics, and philosophy, Prof. Nissenbaum has contributed to privacy-enhancing free software, TrackMeNot (against profiling of Web search histories) and AdNauseam (against profiling based on ad clicks). She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and a B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy and Mathematics from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Prior to joining Cornell Tech, she directed NYU’s Information Law Institute.

Link to registration page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contextual-integrity-in-theory-and-empirical-application-tickets-643026508597

The Promise of Activity Space Approaches: Urban/Rural Comparisons and Implications for Research on Context
23^th of June, 13:00 – 14:00 (BST)

Abstract: Characteristics of the places where we age have profound consequences for our ability to adapt to change and maintain independence. Novel social science theory and data collection can bring insight into the content and structure of older adult lives. The Chicago Health and Activity Space in Real Time (CHART) study provides one example of the use of novel technology to address fundamental questions in urban sociology and the life course. CHART employs innovative smartphone-based methods for the identification of older adults’ activity spaces. Analyses from 450 adults from ten Chicago neighborhoods who carried smartphones for GPS tracking and Ecological Momentary Assessments over seven days are used to assess, for instance, how the span, characteristics, and experiences of activity spaces vary across socioeconomic status and racial/ethnic groups. Applicability and extensions of this approach to rural contexts, with pilot data from the Appalachian region of North Carolina, will be described.

Bio: Kathleen Cagney was named the Director of the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research effective September 1, 2021.  Professor Cagney's work examines social inequality and its relationship to health with a focus on neighborhood, race, and aging, and the life course.  She has developed a series of papers on neighborhood social capital and its relationship to outcomes such as self-rated health, asthma prevalence, physical activity, and mortality during the 1995 Chicago heatwave.  She also focuses on the validity of such measures and the development of new neighborhood-based metrics that reflect the perceptions and experiences of older residents.  She holds research professorships in ISR's Survey Research Center and Population Studies Center.

Link to registration page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-promise-of-activity-space-approaches-tickets-641197227167

Florian Keusch
Professor of Social Data Science and Methodology
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
Professorship for Social Data Science and Methodology | A5, 6 | 68131 Mannheim
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)621 181-3214 
E-mail: f.keusch@uni-mannheim.de