Infrastructural justice for responsible software engineering

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dc.contributor.authorRobinson, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorBuckley, Jim
dc.contributor.authorCiolfi, Luigina
dc.contributor.authorLinehan, Conor
dc.contributor.authorMcInerney, Clare
dc.contributor.authorNuseibeh, Bashar
dc.contributor.authorTwomey, John
dc.contributor.authorRauf, Irum
dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy, John
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Ireland
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Regional Development Fund
dc.contributor.funderUK Research and Innovation
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-01T12:12:59Z
dc.date.available2024-07-01T13:00:49Zen
dc.date.available2024-07-01T12:12:59Z
dc.date.issued2024-06-04
dc.date.updated2024-07-01T12:00:52Zen
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, we have seen many examples of software products unintentionally causing demonstrable harm. Many guidelines for ethical and responsible computing have been developed in response. Dominant approaches typically attribute liability and blame to individual companies or actors, rather than understanding how the working practices, norms, and cultural understandings in the software industry contribute to such outcomes. In this paper, we propose an understanding of responsibility that is infrastructural, relational, and cultural; thus, providing a foundation to better enable responsible software engineering into the future. Our approach draws on Young's (2006) social connection model of responsibility and Star and Ruhleder's (1994) concept of infrastructure. By bringing these theories together we introduce a concept called infrastructural injustice, which offers a new way for software engineers to consider their opportunities for responsible action with respect to society and the planet. We illustrate the utility of this approach by applying it to an Open-Source software communities’ development of Deepfake technology, to find key leverage points of responsibility that are relevant to both Deepfake technology and software engineering more broadly.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.articleid100087
dc.identifier.citationRobinson, S., Buckley, J., Ciolfi, L., Linehan, C., McInerney, C., Nuseibeh, B., Twomey, J., Rauf, I. and McCarthy, J. (2024) ‘Infrastructural justice for responsible software engineering’, Journal of Responsible Technology, 19, p. 100087. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrt.2024.100087
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jrt.2024.100087en
dc.identifier.endpage12
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of Responsible Technology
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16044
dc.identifier.volume19
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Research Centres/13/RC/2094/IE/Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre/
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/UKRI/EPSRC/EP/R013144/1/GB/SAUSE: Secure, Adaptive, Usable Software Engineering/
dc.rights© 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of ORBIT. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectResponsible software engineering
dc.subjectInfrastructure
dc.subjectSocial connection model of responsibility
dc.subjectInstalled base
dc.subjectDeepfake technology
dc.titleInfrastructural justice for responsible software engineeringen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)
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