International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)

Aline Shakti Franzke

Robotics and AI & Co-laborative research and innovation

Dr. Aline Franzke is an ethicist and postdoctoral researcher at the IZEW. She studied applied ethics and her dissertation focused on dialogic ethical guidelines for the soft governance of Big Data and AI. She serves on the ethics committee of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), and her areas of expertise include data ethics, robotics ethics and digital media ethics.

Areas of Expertise

  • Dialogical ethics Guidelines for Big Data
  • Interactive robotics
  • Ethics by design, Virtue Ethics, Embedded Ethics
  • Data Governance
  • Internet Research Ethics

Career

2023

Research Associate at IZEW

 

PhD at Faculty of Political Science at University Duisburg- Essen

Title: “ Dialogical Ethics Guidelines for the Governance of Big Data”

2018

Research Associate at School of Governance at University Duisburg- Essen

 

Graduate Colegue: NRW digital Society

2017

Research Assistant at Utrecht Dataschool,  Utrecht University

2016

Master Applied Ethics at Utrecht University

Masterthesis: “ What will be the role of the ethicist in advising governemnts?”

 

Bachelor Philosophy at University of Vienna

Bachelorthesis:” Ethical Implications of the social robot Paro in the care of Elderly with Dementia”.

Publications

Peer- Reviewed Articles
  • “An Exploratory Qualitative Analysis of AI Ethics Guidelines,” Journal for Information, Communication, Ethics and Society, 2022, advanced access: www.doi.org/10.1108/JICES-122020-0125.
  • “Cambridge Moralica: Towards an Ethical Framework for Social Media Analytics” (with A. Jung, S. Clausen, and J. Marx), Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 2022, forthcoming.
  • “Data Ethics Decision Aid (DEDA): A Dialogical Framework for Ethical Inquiry of AI and Data Projects in the Netherlands” (with I. Muis and M. Schäfer), Ethics and Information Technology, 23, 551–567, 2021.
  • “Feminist Research Ethics,” In Franzke et al., Internet Research: Ethical Guidelines 3.0, Association of Internet Research, 2020.
Books
  • Ess, C.; Franzke, A; Wong, P (2026 forthcoming). Digital Media Ethics. Polity.
Guidelines
Handbooks
  • DEDA Handbook: Assessing Ethical Issues with regard to Governmental Data Projects (with M. Schäfer), Utrecht Data School, 2020.
  • Dringende Data Verhalen: Bewustwording van Knelpunten in Data Projecten (with C. de Kloe), Utrecht Municipality, 2017.
Academic Blog Essays
Popular Articles
  • „Ethik und Digitalisierung: Ein Überblick“, Politikum, 4, 56-63. 2018.

Presentations

Conference Contributions
  • Dilemmas as moments of ethical deliberation for institutions – Presentation – Online Panel at CO-CREATING EXPERIENCES: Collaborative approaches in edutainment design – University Leiden, 18. March, 2021
  • Theoretical and Practical Research Ethics, Three Cases – Moderation – Ethics Panel at the Life Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers – Online, Dublin 29. October, 2020
  • AI Ethics Guidelines, a qualitative literature review – Presentation – Legal& Ethical Perspectives on (big) data, Plattforms, AI & Society – Ethics Panel at the Life Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers – Online, Dublin 29. October, 2020
  • Agency as an ethical concept for Algorithms– Presentation – Life Pre- Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers – Online, Dublin October,2020
  • Ethische Entscheidungsprozesse im Kontext von Datafizierung – Workshop – Universität Speyer 13. June, 2020
  • Künstliche Intelligenz und digitale Verwaltung – N3GZ Nachwuchstagung – Universität Speyer https://n3gz.org/2020/03/12/nachwuchstagung-speyer-2020/
    07. February, 2020
  • Situated Knowledge as a Concept for Data Ethics – Lecture Series "Doing Data Ethnography" at Locating Media Graduate School – University Siegen http://www.locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de/2019/10/01/locating-media-lecture-series-data-ethnography/
    26. November, 2019
  • Making Data Ethics Actionable – Data Justice Conference – Cardiff University 
    https://datajustice.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/programme-final-2018.pdf
  • 21–22. May, 2018
  • Ethik und Verantwortung in der digitalen Gesellschaft. Datenpraktiken in der Verwaltung und Journalismus – Selbstbestimmung in der digitalen Welt. 67 annual Meeting of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Mannheim University 
    http://www.dgpuk2018.de/Programm/Tagungsprogramm_DGPuK%202018.pdf
  • 9–11. May, 2018 
  • Digital and Analogue Tools For Enabling Constructive But Slow Reflection Processes; The Contextual Nature of Such an Approach and the Lessons and Limits We Have Learned – Ethics Panel at the Network Publics Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers – Tartu University, Estonia
    19–21. October, 2017
  • Promises and Problems. An Ethnographic Encounter of Emerging Data Practices in Public Management – Panel: Living and Working With Big Data (with Mirko T. Schäfer) at the INTERNET RULES! conference of the Association of Internet Researchers – Humboldt University, Berlin
    5–8. October, 2016

Invited Talks

Public Engagement