At the Margins: Marginalized Groups' Ethical Concerns about Software
In this paper, we identified marginalized groups’ ethical concerns about software. We performed this identification because recent platform malfeasance indicates that software teams prioritize shareholder concerns over user concerns. Additionally, these platform shortcomings can have devastating effects on marginalized populations. To complete these tasks, we collected a list of 586 marginalized groups’ subreddits, then scraped them. Next, we aggregated a dataset of their social platform mentions, identified ethical concerns within this data, analyzed the trends found, and finally created machine learning models to classify ethical concern existence. We found that marginalized groups’ ethical concerns revolve around discrimination and censorship, among other concerns, and reveal deficiencies in current software development practices. As such, researchers and developers could use our work to help further investigate these concerns and rectify current software flaws.
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