MSR 2023
Dates to be announced Melbourne, Australia
co-located with ICSE 2023
Mon 15 May 2023 17:05 - 17:17 at Meeting Room 109 - Ethics & Energy Chair(s): Arumoy Shome

From airports to banks, healthcare, space crafts, and even amazon services, technology impacts almost every aspect of today’s life. If wrongdoings occur within or in relation to technology, they can have big implications on individuals, groups of people, or society as a whole. Whistleblowers are insiders who expose such wrongdoings— eventually stopping misconducts, such as fraud, endangerment to public health and safety, or damage to the environment. Twitter is a microblogging service that allows millions of users to share their views with people distributed all over the world on a daily basis. Tweets have the potential to contain useful information about whistleblowing in tech, from the general public and whistleblowers. However, until now this point has not been researched. To fill this gap, we conducted an exploratory study on technology-related whistleblowing tweets by manually analysing tweets, utilising descriptive statistics, and machine learning techniques. We mined 7,400 of tweets from whistleblowers themselves, as well as news and opinions about certain whistleblowers and whistleblowing cases. Although our results show that only 30% of the tweets in our sample dataset (obtained through specific search terms) contained relevant information about whistleblowing in technology, our analysis shows that tweets provide valuable information for both researchers and companies to understand the public opinion regarding whistleblowing cases. Furthermore, we found that machine learning techniques are promising means for extracting information about whistleblowing in tech from the vast stream of tweets.

Mon 15 May

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16:35 - 17:20
Ethics & EnergyTechnical Papers / Registered Reports at Meeting Room 109
Chair(s): Arumoy Shome Delft University of Technology
16:35
12m
Talk
Energy Consumption Estimation of API-usage in Mobile Apps via Static Analysis
Technical Papers
Abdul Ali Bangash University of Alberta, Canada, Qasim Jamal FAST National University, Kalvin Eng University of Alberta, Karim Ali University of Alberta, Abram Hindle University of Alberta
Pre-print
16:47
12m
Talk
An Exploratory Study on Energy Consumption of Dataframe Processing Libraries
Technical Papers
Shriram Shanbhag IIT Tirupati, Sridhar Chimalakonda IIT Tirupati
Pre-print
16:59
6m
Talk
Understanding issues related to personal data and data protection in open source projects on GitHub
Registered Reports
Anne Hennig Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Lukas Schulte Universitity of Passau, Steffen Herbold University of Passau, Oksana Kulyk IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Peter Mayer University of Southern Denmark
17:05
12m
Talk
Whistleblowing and Tech on Twitter
Technical Papers
Laura Duits Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Isha Kashyap Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Joey Bekkink Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Kousar Aslam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Emitzá Guzmán Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam