[Air-L] Invitation: dialogues on internet research ethics 3.0

[Charles M. Ess]

Dear AoIRists,

On behalf of the AoIR Ethics Working Group and our colleagues 
contributing to two ethics roundtables this coming week in Tartu - I'm 
very pleased to invite scholars and researchers to the roundtables to 
engage in dialogue on the specific ethical challenges in your work.

This is to say: the roundtables are structured not only to provide 
important examples of and reflection on contemporary research ethics 
challenges - please see the panel titles and participants, below: as 
well, additional time (15 minutes) in each roundtable will be devoted to 
one-on-one (or one-on-several, depending on interest) discussion and 
reflection between each roundtable presenter and researchers / scholars 
who are confronting the same or very similar challenges.

So, for example, you may be interested in -
Stine Lomborg (University of Copenhagen). Open data repositories: what 
are the Stakes for users’ whose data are re-purposed? This includes 
discussions of data activism and citizenship in relation to open data.
- not only for the sake of Stine's presentation and experience, but also 
because you would like to talk with her about closely similar issues 
you're facing in your own project.  Following the initial presentations 
(35 / 40 minutes) and open Q&A (15 minutes), Stine as well as the other 
presenters will move into the room for specific conversations on such 
shared issues, concerns, etc.
Our concluding plenary wrap-up (15 minutes) will bring the results of 
the conversations to the larger group for final comment and discussion.

Our hope is thus not only to offer potentially helpful resources and 
example resolutions of contemporary ethical challenges - but also to 
gain from attendees a more complete understanding of the ethical 
concerns confronting the AoIR research communities. (All of which is 
part of our larger remit to identify topics, issues, etc. that have 
emerged over the past few years that are not addressed either fully or 
in part in the previous guidelines issued by AoIR, but that thereby 
require more contemporary attention, reflection, and possible resolution.)
At the same time, it has been clear throughout the development of the 
first (2002) and second (2012) guidelines that such shared dialogue and 
reflection are critical to our work on IRE: alongside new resources and 
insights - such dialogues are essential to the kinds of careful 
reflection and trust requisite to our community-based, process-oriented 
approach to ethics.  And especially as our research projects and ethical 
challenges implicate participants from multiple disciplines and 
cultures, we hope that these dialogues will also improve our 
understanding of how to create and inspire such safe places.

Especially if you and/or your colleagues are confronting such pressing 
ethical concerns or issues in your research, we warmly invite you to 
attend the relevant roundtable(s) and participate in these dialogues.

My thanks in advance to all of the roundtable presenters who have kindly 
agreed to make themselves available in these ways to us.

Safe travels and all best,
- charles

Professor in Media Studies
Department of Media and Communication
University of Oslo
<http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html>

Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations
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Postboks 1093
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Oslo, Norway
c.m.ess at media.uio.no

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Roundtable 1 – Ethical Issues in Big Data IRE
19/Oct/2017: 2:00pm-3:30pm · Location: Dorpat - Struve II

* Stine Lomborg (University of Copenhagen). Open data repositories: what 
are the Stakes for users’ whose data are repurposed? This includes 
discussions of data activism and citizenship in relation to open data.
* Aline Shakti Franzke (Utrecht Data School).	Digital and analogue tools 
for enabling constructive but slow reflection processes; the contextual 
nature of such an approach and the lessons and limits we have learned.
* Anja Bechmann (Aarhus University). The ethical challenges in the 
analytical phase of data collection, including questions of sharing data 
across different countries as defining different legal and ethical 
guidelines; ethical issues in algorithms and AI models, e.g., do we 
anonymize data when it is provided to machines as we do when providing 
data to humans in qualitative approaches?
* Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social * 
Sciences, Cologne, Germany). How can we promote internet data sharing to 
meet ethical obligations regarding research transparency and quality 
vis-à-vis the problematic origins of much of the data currently used in 
internet research? (e.g. internet of things)?
* Michael Zimmer (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). Ethical issues in 
data sharing, data transparency; frameworks for ethical decision-making, 
including ethics of care; incorporating Nissenbaum's theory of privacy 
as contextual integrity.

Roundtable 2 – Specific Issues, Larger Questions
20/Oct/2017: 2:00pm-3:30pm · Location: Dorpat - Struve II

* Elisabetta Locatelli (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, 
Italy).	The ethical challenges of research on breastfeeding images on 
Instagram.
* Stine Gotved (IT-University, Copenhagen, Denmark). The ethical 
dimensions surrounding the extra layers of sensitivity needed when 
dealing with digital aspects of physical death.
* Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Gothenburg University, Sweden). The ethical 
sensitivities for dealing with how communities use social media as 
resources for coping with the death of a loved one.
* Ane Kathrine Gammelby (Aarhus University, Denmark). Qualitative 
digital research, focusing on online health communities, informed 
consent, and balancing the protection of vulnerable 
individuals/communities with research transparency and rich qualitative 
examples.

Meta-issues:
* Katrin Tildenberg (Tallin University, Estonia; Aarhus University, 
Denmark). Teaching ethics: experiences, philosophies and approaches, and 
invitation for further suggestions and comments from participants.
* Ben Zevenbergen (Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, 
New Jersey, USA; Oxford Internet Institute, UK).  	How to construct 
meaningful cross-disciplinary discussions about Internet technology and 
research]
* Carsten Wilhelm (Center for Research on Economy, Society, Arts and 
Technology [SFSIC] University of Haute Alsace, France). The “French 
point of view” on internet research ethics, based on SFSIC’s work.