research overview
- Fiesler studies ethics and governance for technology, including research ethics, internet law, content policy, and ethics education.
- Contact Info
Fiesler, Casey Lynn
Positions
- Associate Professor, Computer Science
- Associate Professor, Information Science
- Assoc Chair, Information Science
- Endowed/Named Professor, Information Science
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- ai ethics, ethics education, online communities, social norms, social computing, copyright, online behavior, fan communities, ethics, women in technology
Publications
selected publications
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book
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chapter
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conference proceeding
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Crip HCI: Cyborg Perspectives on Disability Justice.
1-7.
2026
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Sense of Community in an Asynchronous Online Degree Program.
1361-1362.
2026
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The PERVADE Data Ethics Tool: Supporting Reflexive Research Ethics Education.
1717-1717.
2026
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Context Matters: Ethical Challenges in Research with Online Communities.
106-111.
2025
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Design for Hope: Cultivating Deliberate Hope in the Face of Complex Societal Challenges.
112-115.
2025
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Validation of the Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing Index: Do Computing Ethics Courses Make a Difference?.
66-81.
2025
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Pragmatic Fairness: Evaluating ML Fairness Within the Constraints of Industry.
628-638.
2025
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Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI.
1-15.
2025
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Toolkits and Strategies for Incorporating Ethics into Project and Capstone Courses.
1717-1717.
2025
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Community-Driven Models for Research on Social Platforms.
684-688.
2024
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Generative AI Going Awry: Enabling Designers to Proactively Avoid It in CSCW Applications.
125-127.
2024
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"It's Not Exactly Meant to Be Realistic": Student Perspectives on the Role of Ethics In Computing Group Projects.
517-526.
2024
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Black to the Future - The Power of Designing Afrofuturist Technology with Black Women, Femmes, and Non-Binary People.
2156-2172.
2024
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Recommend Me? Designing Fairness Metrics with Providers.
2389-2399.
2024
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Visions of a Discipline: Analyzing Introductory AI Courses on YouTube.
2400-2420.
2024
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"Obviously, Nothing's Gonna Happen in Five Minutes": How Adolescents and Young Adults Infrastructure Resources to Learn Type 1 Diabetes Management
2024
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AI and the Afterlife
2024
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Student Preconceptions of Artificial Intelligence: Results from Single Institution Survey.
1610-1611.
2024
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Teaching Ethics In CS Programs - Questions, Models, Resources, Assessments.
1921-1921.
2024
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How do Computing Students Conceptualize Cybersecurity? Survey Results and Strategies for Curricular Integration.
234-240.
2024
- TECHNOLOGICAL AND NON-TECHNOLOGICAL SITUATIONAL AWARENESS CUES USED BY ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS FOR TYPE 1 DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT. Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics. A322-A322. 2024
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"Headlines rarely soothe nerves": An Analysis of News Coverage of Social Media Mental Health Research.
112-116.
2023
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How to Ethically Engage Fat People in HCI Research.
117-121.
2023
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Internet Research Ethics: A CSCW Community Discussion.
566-568.
2023
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Mastodon Rules: Characterizing Formal Rules on Popular Mastodon Instances.
86-90.
2023
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A Systematic Review of Ethics Disclosures in Predictive Mental Health Research.
1311-1323.
2023
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"This Applies to the Real World": Student Perspectives on Integrating Ethics into a Computer Science Assignment.
374-380.
2023
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Incorporating Ethics in Computing Courses: Barriers, Support, and Perspectives from Educators.
367-373.
2023
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Gaming Together, Coding Together.
1035-1041.
2023
- SITUATIONAL AWARENESS INDEPENDENTLY PREDICTS TIME IN RANGE IN ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS USING THE T:SLIM X2 WITH CONTROL-IQ SYSTEM ON A DAILY BASIS. Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics. A263-A263. 2023
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Entering the Techlash: Student Perspectives on Ethics in Tech Job Searches.
85-88.
2022
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Research Ethics in HCI: A SIGCHI Community Discussion.
1-3.
2022
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"Run Wild a Little With Your Imagination": Ethical Speculation in Computing Education with Black Mirror.
836-842.
2022
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SIGCHI Research Ethics Committee Town Hall.
232-233.
2021
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Fairness and Transparency in Recommendation: The Users’ Perspective.
274-279.
2021
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Ethical Speculation in the Computing Classroom.
1-1.
2021
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Learning Computing through Transformative Works: A Case Study of Game Modding.
1-1.
2021
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Co-designing Resources for Ethics Education in HCI.
1-5.
2021
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Protest Privacy Recommendations: An Analysis of Digital Surveillance Circumvention Advice During Black Lives Mater Protests
2021
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"You don't do your hobby as a job": Stereotypes of Computational Labor and their Implications for CS Education.
823-829.
2021
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Integrating Ethics into Introductory Programming Classes.
1027-1033.
2021
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Characterizing Community Guidelines on Social Media Platforms.
287-291.
2020
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Public Scholarship and CSCW.
447-456.
2020
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Research Ethics Roundtable.
195-198.
2020
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Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of Design Fictions.
1-8.
2020
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Lawful Users: Copyright Circumvention and Legal Constraints on Technology Use.
1-11.
2020
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Assignments that Blend Ethics and Technology.
475-476.
2020
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Broadening Participation in Computing through Transforming Media and Technologies.
1303-1303.
2020
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What Do We Teach When We Teach Tech Ethics?.
289-295.
2020
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More Than "If Time Allows".
272-278.
2020
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When Social Norms Fail.
91-94.
2020
- No robots, spiders, or scrapers: Legal and ethical regulation of data collection methods in social media terms of service 2020
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Qualitative Methods for CSCW: Challenges and Opportunities.
455-460.
2019
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CHI4EVIL.
1-8.
2019
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Introduction to Legal Issues in Human-Computer Interaction.
1-5.
2019
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SIGCHI Research Ethics Town Hall.
1-6.
2019
- Reports of the Workshops Held at the 2018 International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. AI Magazine. 36-44. 2018
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Online Fandom.
121-124.
2018
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Research Ethics and Regulation.
125-128.
2018
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Vulnerable and Online.
329-332.
2018
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What's at Stake: Characterizing Risk Perceptions of Emerging Technologies
2018
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Managing Deviant Behavior in Online Communities III.
1-4.
2018
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Research Ethics for HCI.
1-5.
2018
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"We Are the Product".
1-13.
2018
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Ethics Education in Context: A Case Study of Novel Ethics Activities for the CS Classroom.
940-945.
2018
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Ad Empathy.
267-273.
2018
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Research Ethics Town Hall Meeting.
393-396.
2018
- Reddit Rules! Characterizing an Ecosystem of Governance 2018
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How to Handle Online Risks?.
1271-1276.
2017
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Policy Impacts on the HCI Research Community.
1300-1302.
2017
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Taking Action in a Changing World.
1368-1371.
2017
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Understanding Diverse Interpretations of Animated GIFs.
1726-1732.
2017
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CSCW Research Ethics Town Hall.
113-115.
2017
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Growing Their Own: Legitimate Peripheral Participation for Computational Learning in an Online Fandom Community.
1375-1386.
2017
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In Whose Best Interest? Exploring the Real, Potential, and Imagined Ethical Concerns in Privacy-Focused Agenda.
377-382.
2017
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What (or Who) Is Public?.
567-580.
2017
- The Evolution and Consequences of Peer Producing Wikipedia’s Rules 2017
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Characterizations of Online Harassment.
369-374.
2016
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Exploring Ethics and Obligations for Studying Digital Communities.
457-460.
2016
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"Holy Starches Batman!! We are Getting Walloped!": Crowdsourcing Comic Book Transcriptions.
289-290.
2016
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An Archive of Their Own.
2574-2585.
2016
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Reality and Perception of Copyright Terms of Service for Online Content Creation.
1450-1461.
2016
- CONCEPTUALIZING COPY/RIGHTS: INTERNET FANDOM, CULTURAL NORMS, AND THE LAW 2016
- Challenges and Futures for Ethical Social Media Research 2016
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Ethics for Studying Online Sociotechnical Systems in a Big Data World.
289-292.
2015
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Towards an Appropriable CSCW Tool Ecology.
946-957.
2015
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Understanding Copyright Law in Online Creative Communities.
116-129.
2015
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"I Am Not a Lawyer".
291-294.
2014
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Copyright terms in online creative communities.
2551-2556.
2014
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Copyright and social norms in communities of content creation.
49-52.
2014
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Remixers' understandings of fair use online.
1023-1032.
2014
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Redistributing leadership in online creative collaboration.
1007-1022.
2013
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Qualitative data collection technologies.
277-280.
2012
- Bottoms up: improvisational micro-agents. 8-8. 2010
- Fuzzy Micro-Agents for Interactive Narrative. 2010
- Conceptual versus procedural feedback in the training of a home medical device. 1810-1814. 2003
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Crip HCI: Cyborg Perspectives on Disability Justice.
1-7.
2026
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journal article
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''If it helps then it doesn't matter'': Exploring Non-User Views on Chatbot Companionship through Story Completion.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-21.
2026
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Putting the ''Black'' in Black Mirror: Ethical Speculation via Design Fiction from Black Women and Femmes.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-26.
2026
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Building Solidarity Amid Hostility: Experiences of Fat People in Online Communities.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-27.
2025
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Designing for Researcher Access in the U.S. Mortality Data.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
2024
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Teaching Ethics in Computing: A Systematic Literature Review of ACM Computer Science Education Publications.
ACM Transactions on Computing Education.
1-36.
2024
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Remember the Human: A Systematic Review of Ethical Considerations in Reddit Research.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-33.
2024
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Chilling Tales: Understanding the Impact of Copyright Takedowns on Transformative Content Creators.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-21.
2023
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Situational Awareness and Proactive Engagement Predict Higher Time in Range in Adolescents and Young Adults Using Hybrid Closed-Loop.
Pediatric Diabetes.
2023
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From Human to Data to Dataset: Mapping the Traceability of Human Subjects in Computer Vision Datasets.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-33.
2023
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A Trade-off-centered Framework of Content Moderation.
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.
2023
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The Stoop: Speculation on Positive Futures of Black Digital Spaces.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
2023
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"This Isn't Your Data, Friend": Black Twitter as a Case Study on Research Ethics for Public Data.
Social Media + Society.
2022
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Black Lives, Green Books, and Blue Checks.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-22.
2022
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Building a Pillowfort: Political Tensions in Platform Design and Policy.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-23.
2022
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No Humans Here.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-13.
2022
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More than a Modern Day Green Book: Exploring the Online Community of Black Twitter.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-29.
2021
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FORWARD THINKING: PATHS TO A RESEARCH PHILOSOPHY.
Nature.
S1-S3.
2021
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Understanding international perceptions of the severity of harmful content online.
PLoS ONE.
2021
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Excavating awareness and power in data science: A manifesto for trustworthy pervasive data research.
Big Data & Society.
2021
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Supporting Serendipity.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-23.
2021
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Studying Reddit: A Systematic Overview of Disciplines, Approaches, Methods, and Ethics.
Social Media + Society.
2021
- Innovating Like an Optimist, Preparing Like a Pessimist: Ethical Speculation and the Legal Imagination 2021
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Social Norm Vulnerability and its Consequences for Privacy and Safety in an Online Community.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-24.
2020
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Ethical and privacy considerations for research using online fandom data.
Transformative Works and Cultures.
2020
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Unexpected expectations: Public reaction to the Facebook emotional contagion study.
New Media & Society.
1076-1094.
2020
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Moving Across Lands: Online Platform Migration in Fandom Communities.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-25.
2020
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Creativity, Copyright, and Close-Knit Communities.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-24.
2019
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Ethical Considerations for Research Involving (Speculative) Public Data.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-13.
2019
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"Coming Out Okay".
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-28.
2019
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Moderation Challenges in Voice-based Online Communities on Discord.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-23.
2019
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Integrating Ethics within Machine Learning Courses.
ACM Transactions on Computing Education.
2019
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'The Perfect One'.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-20.
2018
- Everything I Needed to Know: Empirical Investigations of Copyright Norms in Fandom. Idea. 65-65. 2018
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Generations, migrations, and the future of fandom's private spaces.
Transformative Works and Cultures.
2018
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Owning the servers: A design fiction exploring the transformation of fandom into "our own".
Transformative Works and Cultures.
2018
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“Participant” Perceptions of Twitter Research Ethics.
Social Media + Society.
2018
- “theyre all trans sharon”: Authoring Gender in Video Game Fan Fiction. Game Studies: the international journal of computer game research. 2018
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“Control your emotions, Potter”.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-18.
2017
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The chilling tale of copyright law in online creative communities.
26-29.
2013
- Pretending without a License: Intellectual Property and Gender Implications in Online Games. 1-1. 2013
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Domestic violence and information communication technologies.
Interacting with computers.
413-421.
2011
- Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Fandom: How Existing Social Norms Can Help Shape the Next Generation of User-Generated Content. 729-729. 2007
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''If it helps then it doesn't matter'': Exploring Non-User Views on Chatbot Companionship through Story Completion.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
1-21.
2026
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scholarly edition
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology 2015
- J.D., Vanderbilt University 2009
- M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology 2005
- B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology 2003
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- Austria Country
- Canada Country
- United Kingdom Country