Dasom Lee: Multi-level Contextual Integrity and Responsible Innovation: Embedding Social Goals into Privacy of Automated Vehicles
The convenor is pleased to invite you to the very first session of the Science and Technology in Asia online seminar series for spring 2025. This will take place on Tuesday, February 11, 10:30–11:45 am ET over Zoom.
For new and emerging technologies, the contextual integrity (CI) framework has emerged as one of the leading paradigms in policy studies. In this presentation, based on a paper co-written with Le Anh Nguyen Long, I examine the relevance of CI within automated vehicle (AV) privacy challenges. This research extends the CI framework by integrating responsible innovation (RI) theory to address the critiques regarding the potential illegitimacy of pre-existing norms in broader societal contexts. Using AVs as a case study, this research introduces a multi-level contextual integrity (MCI) model. MCI incorporates societal preferences, which resonates the RI framework; data context preferences, which reflects CI; and individual level preferences, which is captured using demographic data. Survey data was collected in South Korea to provide empirical insights into the relationships among these three levels. The findings reveal that although social goals and demographic variables initially show some association, the introduction of CI parameters significantly diminishes this relationship, highlighting the primacy of informational contexts in shaping privacy attitudes. This research argues for a nuanced understanding of privacy by linking informational norms with overarching societal values and goals. By advancing the CI framework to include social goals, this study contributes to the broader discourse on responsible innovation, offering a robust approach to managing privacy challenges in emerging technologies.
About our speaker:
Dasom Lee is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Her research explores the intersection of cyber-physical systems policy and social-environmental sustainability. Her work has been featured in Technology in Society, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, and the Journal of Responsible Innovation, among others. For more details, visit www.dasomlee.com.
Zoom registration: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
We hope you will be able to join us for this and subsequent talks, listed below:
February 25 | Monamie Haines | “Democratic (Re)actors: Experiments with Being Anti-Nuclear in India”
March 4 | Aparajita Majumdar | “Recalcitrance: Co-Laboring Histories of Human and Plants in the India-Bangladesh Borderlands”
March 11 | Thomas DuBois | “So Much More Than Delicious: Towards a Unified Theory of Taste in Chinese Food Writing”
March 25 | Wen-Hua Kuo | “From Needham to STS (and Back to Needham): Why East Asian History Matters”
April 1 | Zuoyue Wang | “Chinese American Scientists: A Transnational History”
April 15 | Yuriko Furuhata | “Refrigerated Time Capsules: On the Colonial Roots of Japan’s Polar Science”
April 22 | Li Zhang | “Of Visceral/Somatic Practices in Healing”
More information at https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia.