Entering the Techlash: Student Perspectives on Ethics in Tech Job Searches. Sarder, E. & Fiesler, C. In Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, of CSCW'22 Companion, pages 85–88, New York, NY, USA, November, 2022. Association for Computing Machinery.
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Public coverage of ethical scandals in tech companies often portrays tech workers as uncaring or short-sighted in their ethical consideration. But how do tech students regard the connection between ethics and their future jobs? To explore ethics in the transition between academia and industry, we interviewed graduating computing students at the University of Colorado Boulder about their perspectives on ethical concerns in tech, decisions during job searches, and their ethics education. These interviews revealed that while students may value and understand ethics in tech, their belief that companies do not value ethics makes ethical consideration in the workplace daunting. In response, we suggest improving support for tech workers through academia-industry collaboration and additions to computing ethics curricula to help students stand up for responsible tech.
@inproceedings{sarder_entering_2022,
	address = {New York, NY, USA},
	series = {{CSCW}'22 {Companion}},
	title = {Entering the {Techlash}: {Student} {Perspectives} on {Ethics} in {Tech} {Job} {Searches}},
	isbn = {978-1-4503-9190-0},
	shorttitle = {Entering the {Techlash}},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3500868.3559446},
	doi = {10.1145/3500868.3559446},
	abstract = {Public coverage of ethical scandals in tech companies often portrays tech workers as uncaring or short-sighted in their ethical consideration. But how do tech students regard the connection between ethics and their future jobs? To explore ethics in the transition between academia and industry, we interviewed graduating computing students at the University of Colorado Boulder about their perspectives on ethical concerns in tech, decisions during job searches, and their ethics education. These interviews revealed that while students may value and understand ethics in tech, their belief that companies do not value ethics makes ethical consideration in the workplace daunting. In response, we suggest improving support for tech workers through academia-industry collaboration and additions to computing ethics curricula to help students stand up for responsible tech.},
	urldate = {2022-11-21},
	booktitle = {Companion {Publication} of the 2022 {Conference} on {Computer} {Supported} {Cooperative} {Work} and {Social} {Computing}},
	publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
	author = {Sarder, Ella and Fiesler, Casey},
	month = nov,
	year = {2022},
	keywords = {computing education, ethics, job searches, professional responsibility},
	pages = {85--88},
}

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