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- Zimmer, Michael, et al.
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AoIR Ethics 2: Platform & Pragmatic Challenges
- 2023
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In: The 24th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 18-21 Oct 2023.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Since its inception, the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) has fostered critical reflection on the ethical and social dimensions of the internet and Internet-facilitated communication and interactions. The AoIR Ethics Working Committee has been committed to not only ensuring the AoIR Ethics Guidelines remain helpful and relevant to researchers and ethical review committees, but also to ensure high-quality research focused on ethics is shared at the annual conference. This panel is one of two organized by the AoIR Ethics Working Committee to highlight recent research engaging with the complexities of addressing ethics in our domain from various disciplinary perspectives, methods, and platforms. These panels will serve as a means for the AoIR community to learn from recent scholarship in internet research ethics, engage in discussion and debate about the issues and challenges presented, and reflect on the current Ethical Guidelines 3.0 as we begin the process for the next revision and expansion. This panel on “Platform & Pragmatic Challenges” collects three papers exploring a set of unique research contexts and pragmatic challenges that confront the internet research community. These contributions provide systematic analyses of these growing research contexts and a review of the pragmatic challenges faced by internet researchers attempting to ensure compliance with ethical best practices.. The papers include: “Innovation on Instagram and user-centric qualitative methods” by [redacted] who takes a qualitative perspective and argues for in-depth understanding of the intrinsic relationship that exists between ethical “hurdles” and platform affordances. “Updating the topology of Twitter research: How Twitter researchers engaged with ethics” by [redacted] who investigate how ethics has been addressed in the explosion of twitter- based research and contribute to the conversations about the ethical use of public social media data for research. “Responsible storage and usage of social media data” by [redacted] which provides an analysis of so-called research safe spaces which authorized researchers are able to directly access and analyse potentially sensitive and identifiable data Along with the complementary panel organized by the AoIR Ethics Working Committee, these papers represent important new directions for the growing body of scholarship in internet research ethics fostered by the AoIR community, and will be among those under consideration for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society associated with the AoIR Ethics Working Committee and AoIR2023.
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