This is excellent - the closing four paras are especially ! https://twitter.com/k_pendergrast/status/1199030191340703745

I do want to contextualize something about Luke and I's paper - a claim from which is (fairly!) cited here. To be clear: Luke and I weren't explicitly, ourselves, arguing in favor of a "stewardship" model of data ethics, rather... 1/

...we were exploring what might be described as the "ethical affordances" of metaphors often used as a means to exploitation, without equal consideration of the ethics or responsibilities they may entail (we use professional ethics from related professions as a proxy)... 2/

...basically saying, "oh, you wanna use 'data forests' as a catchy way to sell what you do? then you should also have to take seriously the ethics of managing forests, buddy." we, ourselves, are agnostic about this as an actually *good* approach itself... 3/

...and in that sense, I think the paper is not in conflict but continuous with this (excellent!) essay, insofar as data metaphors often serve the interests of exploiters at the expense of alternative ways of conceiving of data, its management, and its ethics. 4/

(To be fair, this point is clearer in the journal article and gets obscured by our tone/approach in the Quartz article. See: https://culturalanalytics.org/2019/05/data-is-the-new-what-popular-metaphors-professional-ethics-in-emerging-data-culture-2/ )

...and, in fact, we do point to various resistance/refusal movements in the paper itself, especially as they might be implicated in/by extant professional codes. 6/

In the conclusion, we specifically note that our normative goal was to tax these metaphors, not endorse any of them: "We are explicit about these normative commitments as a way to conceptually tax related ethics codes and our data metaphors alike." 7/

And: "...the processual ethics common to professional codes need to be supplanted by a more explicit set of norms around data cultures as spaces for equality and justice—within and beyond a code of ethics for data scientists." 8/