Undoing Ethics [electronic resource] : Rethinking Practice in Online Research /
Whiteman, Natasha.author.
Researchers entering into online environments for the purposes of research need to be able to demonstrate that they have considered the ethics of their practice, their use of data, and their relationship to the researched settings. No matter what the activity they are interested in, it is likely that they will be asked to account for the decisions they make and describe the strategies they have developed for managing the ethics of their work. The conflicting guidance on Internet-research practice and the diverse nature and characteristics of different online environments can make this task difficult. This book examines some of the challenges that researchers may face when researching online activity and the ways that existing guidance on research ethics can inform our responses to these. It further conceptualises the doing of research ethics as involving the production of an ethical stance in respect of key ethical issues and methodological decisions. This stance is established in relation to a number of different domains in which ethics are articulated/embodied (rather than involving self-evident notions of what actions might be 'good' or 'bad') and involves a consideration of the researcher's accountability to different audiences and interested parties. The chapters examine the ways such stances might be established and unsettled during research and the resources that might be used to inform this ongoing work.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Undoing Ethics""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Chapter 1: Ethical Stances in (Internet) Research""; ""Introduction: The Internet and Ethical Uncertainty""; ""A Shifting Academic Terrain""; ""Approaching Research Ethics â€? Two Emphases""; ""Embedded Ethics""; ""Ethical Instability""; ""The Theoretical and Empirical Underpinnings of This Book""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Chapter 2: The Achievement of Research Ethics""; ""Introduction""; ""Whatâ€?s in a Name?""; ""Specialising and Localising Internet Research Ethics""; ""Four Domains of Research Ethics""
""The Ethics of the Academy""""The Ethics of the Researched""; ""The Ethics of the Researcher""; ""The Ethics of the Institution""; ""Conclusion: The Achievement of Ethics in Research""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3: Public or Private?""; ""Introduction""; ""Problematising the Public/Private Distinction""; ""The Internet and the Public/Private Distinction""; ""Research Ethics and the Public/Private Distinction""; ""Approaching the Public/Private Distinction: Technical/Perceived Privacy""; ""â€?Technicalâ€? Approaches to Online Environments""; ""From Technical to Perceived Privacy""
""From Environment to Content""""Unsettling Distinctions""; ""Beyond Technical/Perceived Privacy: Tacit and Explicit Markers of Privacy on COA and SHH""; ""The Public/Private Distinction and the Conduct of Research""; ""References""; ""Chapter 4: Text or Subjects?""; ""Introduction""; ""Defining â€?Human Subjectsâ€?""; ""Online Subjects?""; ""From Subject to Text""; ""Human Subject Approaches""; ""Avatar In/Stability and Attachment""; ""Who Is Anonymous?""; ""Text Approaches""; ""Seeing Is Believing?""; ""The Haunting""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""
""Chapter 5: Unstable Relations: Observational Methods and Ethical Instability""""Introduction""; ""Observation Online""; ""Participant or Observer?""; ""Observational Shifts and Ethical Destabilisation""; ""Rupturing and Suturing Identification""; ""From Participant to Observer?""; ""From Observer to Participant?""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Chapter 6: Undoing Ethics""; ""Introduction""; ""Research Ethics Under Surveillance""; ""Negotiating Local and General Ethical Discourses""; ""Doing Ethics, Online or Offline""; ""Continuities Between Online and Offline Research""
""Ethical Destabilisation as Well as Construction""""The Constructed Rather Than Natural Status of Ethical Practice""; ""A Sociological Approach to Research Ethics""; ""The Interrelationship Between the Ethics of the Researcher and the Ethics of the Researched""; ""From â€?Meâ€? to â€?Themâ€? to â€?Youâ€?""; ""References""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Researchers entering into online environments for the purposes of research need to be able to demonstrate that they have considered the ethics of their practice, their use of data, and their relationship to the researched settings. No matter what the activity they are interested in, it is likely that they will be asked to account for the decisions they make and describe the strategies they have developed for managing the ethics of their work. The conflicting guidance on Internet-research practice and the diverse nature and characteristics of different online environments can make this task difficult. This book examines some of the challenges that researchers may face when researching online activity and the ways that existing guidance on research ethics can inform our responses to these. It further conceptualises the doing of research ethics as involving the production of an ethical stance in respect of key ethical issues and methodological decisions. This stance is established in relation to a number of different domains in which ethics are articulated/embodied (rather than involving self-evident notions of what actions might be 'good' or 'bad') and involves a consideration of the researcher's accountability to different audiences and interested parties. The chapters examine the ways such stances might be established and unsettled during research and the resources that might be used to inform this ongoing work.
Educational technology.
Ethics.
Educational Technology.
Ethics.