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    Ethics of Data Work. Principles for Academic Data Work Requesters
    (Weizenbaum Institute, 2025-06) Yang, Tianling; Strippel, Christian; Keiner, Alexandra; Baker, Dylan; Chávez, Alexis; Kauffman, Krystal; Pohl, Marc; Sinders, Caroline; Miceli, Milagros
    The growing use of machine learning (ML) in academic research has led to a rising demand for large, labeled datasets. While the field initially relied on the labor of students and research assistants to label data, as models grew larger and more complex, there was a shift towards relying on large-scale, low-cost platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to label data at scale. However, this shift comes with serious ethical concerns. Now part of a massive industry, many data work companies exploit workers, leaving many workers facing low wages and precarious working conditions, with little institutional oversight or protection. Despite the centrality of this labor to modern research, ethical codes and guidelines from academic societies rarely address the implications of outsourcing data work to platform-based workers. This paper advocates for the development of research ethics standards that ensure fair and responsible collaboration with data workers. We begin by defining the concept of “data work” and assessing how current ethical frameworks address it. We then highlight ongoing initiatives aimed at improving ethical regulation. Based on two focus groups and two expert workshops held at the Weizenbaum Institute in 2024, we propose a set of principles for academic data work requesters to guide ethical engagement with platform-based workers. Finally, we outline future steps for integrating these principles into scientific ethical codes and day-to-day research practices.
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    Multidimensional Measurement of Mobile Media Use
    (Weizenbaum Institute, 2021) Toth, Roland
    Just like all types of media use, mobile media use is usually measured using retrospective, self-reported indications of quantity in the form of duration and frequency. This is not only problematic due to the fact that people misjudge their own use to a great extent, but also because theoretical approaches predominantly suggest that mere contact is not sufficient for the description of media use. This especially holds for mobile media use, as specific contact episodes are not easily distinguishable anymore due to their short duration and high frequency. Mobile media use is rather characterized by circumstances surrounding the contact itself - they are used for countless purposes, in a habitual manner, and in various situations. In this paper, I am proposing a renewed, multidimensional measure of mobile media use that takes into account these characteristics in addition to well-known measures of quantity and suggest methods for assessing its convergent and content validity.