Dr.ir. Lavinia Marin

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Lavinia Marin is an assistant professor in the Ethics and Philosophy of Technology Section, TU Delft, the Netherlands. Her current research investigates the conditions of possibility for enabling epistemic agency (both at the individual and group level) for users of social networking platforms. Given that users already have epistemic agency and capacities, what does it take in terms of design to foster these capacities? Lavinia investigates the problem of epistemic agency for online users from several complementary perspectives: what are the emerging epistemic norms in online communities, how the epistemic norms of online life are intertwined with moral and social norms, and the ways in which users can sharpen their epistemic skills through using features of the environment (scaffolds and affordances), informationally overloaded environments, and the emotional infrastructure of the online social environments. She uses the frameworks of social epistemology, 4E cognition, and value sensitive design to answer these questions. Lavinia is pursuing this line of research as part of the ESDIT project and at the Delft Digital Ethics Centre.

The second line of research concerns educational development in ethics education for engineering programmes. This line focuses on refining the learning goals for engineering ethics education, and developing methods tailored to these goals, particularly moral reflection and moral sensitivity. Together with colleagues from the Comet project, she is currently building a framework toward theorising the experiential approach in ethics education, namely why experiences with material objects, embodied exercises and performing scenarios are important for getting a more involved approach to ethical experiences.

Research interests: digital epistemology, social epistemology, epistemology of embodied cognition and reasoning, critical thinking as embodied and mediated practice, intellectual virtues, online (mis)information, critical inquiry in online communities, online emotions, digital forms of life, digital citizenship

Marin, L. (2022). How to do things with information online. A conceptual framework for evaluating social networking platforms as epistemic environments. Philosophy & Technology, 35(3), 77. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-022-00569-5
Marin, L. (2021). Sharing (mis) information on social networking sites. An exploration of the norms for distributing content authored by others. Ethics and Information Technology, 23(3), 363-372. https://rdcu.be/cPBDf
Marin, L. (2022). Enactive Principles for the Ethics of User Interactions on Social Media: How to Overcome Systematic Misunderstandings Through Shared Meaning-Making. Topoi, 1-13. https://rdcu.be/cPBC5
Lavinia Marin and Steffen Steinert. Twisted thinking: Technology, values and critical thinking. Prometheus. Vol. 38(1). DOI: 10.13169/prometheus.38.1.0124
Marin, Lavinia, and Sabine Roeser. 2020. “Emotions and Digital Well-Being: The Rationalistic Bias of Social Media Design in Online Deliberations.” In Ethics of Digital Well-Being. Vol. 140, edited by Christopher Burr and Luciano Floridi, 139–50. Philosophical Studies Series. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Marin, L. (2020). Three contextual dimensions of information on social media: Lessons learned from the covid-19 infodemic. Ethics and Information Technology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-020-09550-2

Instructor for:

Creative and critical thinking (How to defend a proposition) R2.D1
Research design R1.A1
Science fiction: Challenging the post-human (TPM042A)
Embedding societal values in research R3.A1

Master's Thesis supervision for theses in TBM

Co-project manager together with Janna van Grusnven for the COMET 3.0 project (Comprehensive Ethics Teaching for Engineering and Design students) funded by the 4TU.CEE
Research fellow in the ESDIT project
Member of the Delft Digital Ethics centre
Web and content manager for the Ethics teaching website

Corona and ethics podcast series

Personal website: https://www.laviniamarin.eu/
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Lavinia Marin

Assistant Professor

L.Marin@tudelft.nl
Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management

Building 31

Room number: B4.220

Department:
Values, Technology and Innovation

Section:
Ethics/Philosophy of Technology

Research interests:
_{Design for values
Computer Ethics}

Dr.ir. L. (Lavinia) Marin

Research interests: digital epistemology, social epistemology, epistemology of embodied cognition and reasoning, critical thinking, intellectual virtues, online (mis)information, human-computer interaction, critical inquiry in online communities, online emotions, digital forms of life, digital citizenship.

Biography
Lavinia Marin is an assistant professor in the Ethics and Philosophy of Technology Section, TU Delft, the Netherlands. Her current research investigates the conditions of possibility for enabling epistemic agency (both at the individual and group level) for users of social networking platforms. Given that users already have epistemic agency and capacities, what does it take in terms of design to foster these capacities? Lavinia investigates the problem of epistemic agency for online users from several complementary perspectives: what are the emerging epistemic norms in online communities, how the epistemic norms of online life are intertwined with moral and social norms, and the ways in which users can sharpen their epistemic skills through using features of the environment (scaffolds and affordances), informationally overloaded environments, and the emotional infrastructure of the online social environments. She uses approaches from social epistemology, 4E cognition, and value sensitive design to answer these questions.

Projects

Lavinia is pursuing a line of research on epistemic agency of social media users within the ESDIT project and with the Delft Digital Ethics Centre.
A second line of research concerns educational development in ethics education for engineering programmes. This line focuses on refining the learning goals for engineering ethics education, and developing methods tailored to these goals, particularly moral reflection and moral sensitivity. Together with colleagues from the Comet project, she is currently building a framework toward theorising the experiential approach in ethics education, namely why experiences with material objects, embodied exercises and performing scenarios are important for getting a more involved approach to ethical experiences.

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