Elon Journal - Spring 2012 - Dan Koehler
Channel: Elon School of Communications
Date: 2012-09-14

Conducting fieldwork frequently sparks ethical challenges as researcher and environment clash. This study uses documentary and ethnography methodologies as a lens to illuminate different ways of thinking about fieldwork ethics. Meta-analysis and historiography analyzing past texts are combined with interviews with professionals. The key to confronting ethical challenges lies within one's understanding of obligations before fieldworkers confront the grit and dynamism facing them in the research environment. Faculty mentor: Dr. David Copeland