Rethinking Research Ethics for Mediated Settings

Beaulieu, Anne; Estalella, Adolfo

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2010.535838

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“…Puisque des écrits recueillis sur le web peuvent aisément être recontextualisés au moyen d'un moteur de recherche et que, de surcroît, la plupart des productions scientifiques contemporaines circulent sous forme numérique, on ne peut plus se contenter de masquer l'identité des acteurs en remplaçant leur nom ou leur identifiant par des pseudonymes ou des numéros. C'est le principe même de la citation d'extraits du corpus qui est en cause (Beaulieu et Estalella, 2012). Or, cela revient à remettre en question des façons de faire profondément enracinées dans les méthodes qualitatives, dont l'épistémologie de la preuve se fonde en grande partie sur la présentation au lecteur d'exemples suffisamment probants en qualité et en quantité pour que la thèse défendue soit jugée plausible par les pairs (Rueff, 2012).…”

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Par-delà la dichotomie public/privé : la mise en visibilité des pratiques numériques et ses enjeux éthiques

Latzko-Toth¹,

Pastinelli²

2014

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Publisher Association ARTIC Electronic referenceGuillaume LATZKO-TOTH and Madeleine PASTINELLI, « Par-delà la dichotomie public/privé : la mise en visibilité des pratiques numériques et ses enjeux éthiques », tic&société [Online] Mots-clés : pratiques numériques, dichotomie public/privé, degré de publicité, éthique de la recherche, visibilité. Abstract:The private or public status of data is in the midst of debates and discussions about ethical issues raised by research on digital practices. In the context of an increasingly stringent regulation of research in social sciences and humanities, but also in order to provide tools to researchers looking for clearer guidelines in online research ethics, it seemed necessary to question the grounds of normative discourses that are based on the public/private dichotomy. We argue that it is hardly suited to conceptualize digital practices and issues related to the well-being of social subjects involved in the research. Instead, we propose to consider the degree of publicity of collected data, and to be concerned with the harm that an amplification of that publicity can generate, be it caused by researchers, involved actors, or third parties. In so doing, this paper takes on the task of proposing a common conceptual framework to think practices of both actors and researchers.Keywords : digital practices, public/private dichotomy, degree of publicity, research ethics, visibility.Par-delà la dichotomie public/privé : la mise en visibilité des pratiques numériques et ses enjeux éthiques 150Resumen: La cuestión del carácter privado o público de los datos ocupa un lugar central en los debates y discusiones en torno a los desafíos éticos de la investigación sobre las prácticas digitales. En el contexto de marcos reguladores cada vez más restrictivos para las investigaciones en ciencias humanas y sociales en términos éticos, pero también con el propósito de brindar herramientas a los investigadores que desean tener una mayor claridad al respecto, nos parece necesario interrogarnos sobre los fundamentos de los discursos normativos de la ética de la investigación en línea sustentados sobre la dicotomía público/privado. Argumentamos que esta última es poco apropiada para pensar las prácticas digitales y las cuestiones relativas al bienestar de los sujetos sociales involucrados en la investigación. En cambio, proponemos considerar el grado de publicidad de los datos recolectados, y preocuparnos por los perjuicios que la amplificación de esta publicidad -ya sea provocada por los investigadores, los actores implicados o por terceros-puede producir. De este modo, el artículo busca proponer un marco conceptual común para pensar las prácticas de los actores y los investigadores.Palabras claves : prácticas digitales, dicotomía público/privado, grado de publicidad, ética de la investigación, visibilidad.Guillaume LATZKO-TOTH et Madeleine PASTINELLI tic&société -7 (2), 2013 151

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Par-delà la dichotomie public/privé : la mise en visibilité des pratiques numériques et ses enjeux éthiques

Latzko-Toth¹,

Pastinelli²

2014

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“…The way traceability -as some authors call what we refer to as searchability in this paper -affects the ethics of an ethnographer doing e-research is addressed by Beaulieu and Estalella. Starting from a critical discussion of their own fieldwork, the authors highlight the broad impact of e-research on the entire research eco-system beyond the traditional issues of privacy and copyright (Beaulieu and Estalella 2011). Internet research ethics is also an issue often discussed in the mailing list of the Association of Internet researchers 3 .…”

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Ethics and Interdisciplinarity in Computational Social Science

Giglietto

Rossi

2012

Methodological Innovations Online

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During the last few years a growing amount of content produced by Internet users has become publicly available online. These data come from a variety of places, including popular social web services like Facebook and Twitter, consumer services like Amazon or weblogs.The research opportunities opened up by this socio-technological innovation are, as shown by the growing literature on the topic, huge. At the same time new challenges for social scientists arise. In this paper we will focus on two of the main challenges posed to the growth of the so-called computational social science: interdisciplinarity and ethics. While the searchability and persistence of this information make it ideal for sociological research, a quantitative approach is still challenging because of the size and complexity of the data.Collecting, storing and analyzing these data often require technical skills beyond the traditional curricula of social scientists. These projects require, in fact, collaboration with computer scientists. Nevertheless developing a common interdisciplinary project is often challenging because of the different backgrounds of the researchers.At the same time the availability of this content poses a challenge concerning privacy and research ethics. Due to the amount of data and the fact that the real identity of the author is often hidden behind a nickname, it is often impossible to ask the subject involved to consent to the use of their data. On the other hand, especially in the first wave of web 2.0, this information has been -intentionally or not -publicly shared by the users. While a technique of dis-embedding the identity of the user from the content analyzed is often the solution used to bypass this issue, an even more important privacy-related challenge for computational social science is emerging. Due to the wide adoption of social network sites such Facebook or Google+, where a user may decide to share his content with his/her group of friends only, the amount of public data will change and decrease in the future. We will discuss this issue by enumerating a number of possible future scenarios.

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“…Yet, as our technologies have arguably changed the instrumentation of human action, renewed discussion is certainly required. Indeed, there is a sizeable body of literature dealing with the methodology of conducting online and technology mediated research and its associated ethics issues (e.g., Beaulieu & Estalella, 2012;Hammersley & Traianou, 2012;Nind, Wiles, Bengry-Howell, & Crow, 2012;Whiteman, 2010;Zimmer, 2010), however a much smaller body of work deals with the peculiar concerns of ethical research practices, decisions and dilemmas involved in using digital technologies in education.…”

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Editorial 32(5): A question of ethics

Heinrich¹,

Henderson²,

Lee³

2016

AJET

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A question of ethicsEducational technology research is fundamentally about understanding the relationship between technology and education which includes learning and teaching. The field is often breaking new ground in terms of exploring the possibilities of technology mediated practices. In doing so new ways to recruit, observe, and interact with participants are being trialled. In addition, digitally mediated contexts, such as virtual learning environments, afford opportunities to gather large volumes of data that were not previously available. We are also finding new ways to analyse, visualise and interrogate across datasets. This is a trend that seems likely to continue. However, in our enthusiasms of trailblazing new ways to recruit, observe, interact, gather and analyse data, we need to consider if our research ethics practices are meeting these new contexts. This is particularly true in education where it is common for researchers to also have roles within the educational institutions, and even be involved in the education of the students under study.

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Rethinking Research Ethics for Mediated Settings

Cited by 81 publications

References 33 publications

Par-delà la dichotomie public/privé : la mise en visibilité des pratiques numériques et ses enjeux éthiques

Par-delà la dichotomie public/privé : la mise en visibilité des pratiques numériques et ses enjeux éthiques

Ethics and Interdisciplinarity in Computational Social Science

Editorial 32(5): A question of ethics

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