Open AccessTHEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL RESEARCH ETHICS: THREE CASES
Author(s) -
Charles Ess,
aline shakti franzke,
Katja Kaufmann,
Marjo Rauhala,
Niklas Gudowsky-Blatakes,
Martin Rutzinger,
Tabea Bork-Hüffer,
Ylva Hård af Segerstad,
Bastiaan Vanacker
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
selected papers of internet research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2162-3317
DOI - 10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11117
Subject(s) - information ethics , virtue ethics , ethics of technology , engineering ethics , sociology , pragmatism , research ethics , situationism , meta ethics , applied ethics , nursing ethics , virtue , psychology , political science , epistemology , social psychology , law , engineering , philosophy
AoIR and the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (JICES) share common interests in critical reflection on the ethical and social dimensions of the internet and internet-facilitated communication, and have begun a collaboration aimed at collecting ethically-focused AoIR conference submissions for presentation and critique at AoIR, with a view towards subsequent publication in a special issue of JICES. This panel collects three papers that address these shared interests as specifically focused on research ethics. Paper 1, Integrating Mobile Eye-Tracking in a Mixed Methods Research Design: Ethical Standards and Practical Requirements, addresses the social and data ethical dimensions of the increasing use of Augmented Reality (AR) technologies in public spaces. Paper 2, The complex balancing act of researchers’ ethical and emotional capacities and responsibilities, takes up these issues from the first-hand experience of a researcher-participant who, as a bereaved parent, was requested to research a closed community for bereaved parents on Facebook. The wide range of ethical challenges here includes informed consent as distinctively difficult in these contexts. Paper 3, Digital Ethics and the Situationist Challenge to Virtue Ethics, evaluates recent applications of virtue ethics in digital media, arguing instead for a pragmatist, situation-based approach. These three papers thus expand AoIR’s signature focus on Internet Research Ethics through two empirically-oriented papers on research ethics/methods in two specific contexts, complimented by a more theoretical exploration of virtue ethics and pragmatism – and thereby dovetail with JICES’ interests in the ethics and social dimensions of ICTS.