Bots and/or other IP Sponsored Panel Ideas

[Lanette Cadle]

It's time! The call for CCCC panel proposals is out and we have a sponsored panel that we need to propose. In the annual meeting, Roundtable 5: Emerging Issues in IP, such as Bot-Authors and Data Ownership had  a lively conversation centered on bots. Tim Amidon, Kyle Stedman, and Danielle Nicole DeVoss? Are any of you able to take the lead for this proposal? In hopeful anticipation, I've created a Google Doc for the proposal and shared it with each of you. The share email just got sent, so huzzah! Let's make this a raging success!

[Stedman, Kyle D]

Hi Lanette, and thanks!

 

I’m going to respectively take a step back from this one; I support the idea of a bot-focused panel for the caucus, but it’s a bit outside my wheelhouse.

 

Also, I wonder if whoever DOES the lead might want to reach out to some of the folks in the field who study things like privacy and security…? I remember we talked about some kind of partnership like that, right? (My memory is kind of vague…)

 

k

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[Gainer, Kim]

Given the recent purchase of Turn-It-In, any chance the data-ownership and privacy elements might allow us to revisit the issue of student ownership of their work in light of the databases created by PDS companies?

 

Kim

[Jim Purdy]

Dear all,

Has there been further discussion of the sponsored panel for CCCC 2020? My apologies if I'm missing a thread.

Thank you!

Jim

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[Clancy Ratliff]

I’m also wondering this. Also, I’m interested in being on one of the discussion tables for the Standing Group meeting. I went two years without attending the conference but am proposing for 2020. 

Clancy Ratliff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Graduate Coordinator for Continuing Students
Department of English
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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[Gainer, Kim]

Re Standing Group: Legal & Legislative Developments for me. Laurie? Jeff?

 

Also since the topics of data-ownership and privacy have been mentioned in the thread, I’ll re-ask my question: Given the recent purchase of Turn-It-In, any chance the data-ownership and privacy elements might allow us to revisit the issue of student ownership of their work in light of the databases created by PDS companies?

 

Kim

[Lanette Cadle]

Kim, no one is putting together anything so far and your idea is a good one. Do you have others who would work with you on this? I put another call out on the Facebook page too.

Lanette

Dr. Lanette Cadle
Professor of English
Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65897

Editor, Moon City Press | http://mooncitypress.com
Computers and Composition Online Acquisitions Editor | http://cconlinejournal.org/index.htm

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[Gainer, Kim]

Lanette, it’s just an idea that I wanted to float, so at the moment I don’t have anyone I’m working with. Anyone? Anyone?

[Clancy Ratliff]

Tim and Dànielle, do you have the sponsored session going yet? Is it something you want to do? And do you need anyone else?

As far as the standing group goes, for legal and legislative developments, January 1, 2019 was Public Domain Day, when work entered the public domain for the first time in more than 20 years! (Works from 1923.) So that's something. Upload filters are definitely an important point of discussion too.

Also, I'm copyediting the IP Annual articles and am about halfway done with writing my introduction now. Sorry about the delay.

Clancy Ratliff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Graduate Coordinator for Continuing Students
Department of English
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
http://culturecat.net/portfolio/

[Lanette Cadle]

Clancy, if they do have a start on the bot proposal, it's not on the Google Doc I started. Thus, my current panic.

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Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65897

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[Devoss, Danielle Nicole]

Tim and Dànielle, do you have the sponsored session going yet? Is it something you want to do? And do you need anyone else?

 

As far as the standing group goes, for legal and legislative developments, January 1, 2019 was Public Domain Day, when work entered the public domain for the first time in more than 20 years! (Works from 1923.) So that's something. Upload filters are definitely an important point of discussion too.

 

Also, I'm copyediting the IP Annual articles and am about halfway done with writing my introduction now. Sorry about the delay.

 

 

Uh… going? No. I am totally out of the loop right now.

 

If Tim isn’t working on this and others aren’t, it’d be great if you could.

 

Sorry – and I can try to carve time over the weekend to work, help, draft, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

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[Jim Purdy]

Dear all,

I've published on plagiarism detection technology and could revisit that work given the sale of Turnitin and larger questions about student data privacy and ownership. Are others interested in this idea other than Kim, though? Clancy, does this focus interest you? We are, of course, running short on time to pull something together.

Lynette, can you please resend the link to the Google Doc? I apologize I can't find it in the previous messages.

Sincerely,

Jim

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[Lanette Cadle]

I'd be happy to share that link, Jim! Here is the link to the Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wRVRTCc2hhVT87UU7MiZqX6HTF4YLdXRkGB2Uufmapg/edit?usp=sharing 

Lanette

Dr. Lanette Cadle
Professor of English
Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65897

Editor, Moon City Press | http://mooncitypress.com
Computers and Composition Online Acquisitions Editor | http://cconlinejournal.org/index.htm

Academic Blog | http://lanettecadle.com 

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[Clancy Ratliff]

Jim, yes, that topic is very important to me! I am in a panel proposal with some other people but would be thrilled to be a respondent on this one, but if someone else is a better fit, that’s fine too.

[Timothy Amidon]

Hi all,

Here's a list of the folks that I had thought would be really fun to invite to reach out to about speaking re bot authors/algorithms/data ownership:

• Krista Kennedy's work on data, wearables, and surveillance
• Estee Beck's work on digital visible identity
• Lauren Cagle's work on stranger shots
• Casey Boyle's stuff on #sensecommons
• Chris Gilliard's work on digital redlining
• Jeff Grabill and/or Bill Hart Davidson on bot authors and bot ethics
• Jim Ridolfo and/or Bill Hart Davidson's work on #rhetops

Reyman and Sparby's new collection on Digital Ethics just came out, too, so I think there's probably some great scholars included who would be good invites. FWIW: I do think Turnitin continues to be a good example to discuss so folding in in some way would seem to be pertinent. I found Jeff Grabill's remarks re Turnitin as a bad robot at C&W at Rochester, NY, for example, particularly insightful. 

I can carve out sometime tomorrow morning and potentially on Saturday to work on this. I think they key move would be to contact folks immediately/asap.

Best,

tra

Timothy R. Amidon, Ph.D. 

Assistant Professor | Department of English | Colorado State University

Assistant Professor | Department of Environmental and Occupational Health | Colorado School of Public Health

Faculty Affiliate | Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis

Associate Editor | Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, & Pedagogy

[Clancy Ratliff]

John Jones at Ohio State does work on this stuff too.

Clancy Ratliff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Graduate Coordinator for Continuing Students
Department of English
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
http://culturecat.net/portfolio/

[Gainer, Kim]

I’m noodling around on the Google Doc and just typed this paragraph:

 

This panel will discuss the issue of ownership and control of student data and work, including implications for student privacy when student data and work are commodified and mined by companies such as plagiarism detection services. Among the scenarios to be discussed will be the sale of one company to another, a situation in which students likely will not have explicitly or knowingly authorized the use of their data or work by the new company. Initially, while enrolled in a course students may have authorized access to their data or work either innocently or via compulsion. The recent purchase of a major plagiarism detection service is an example of a case in which student data and work now falls under the control of a company that was not a party to the original educational “contract.”

 

Kim

[Kathleen Lawrence]

Hello .all