[Air-L] Got ethics?

[Charles M. Ess]

Of course you do.

In addition: if you have internet research ethics on your mind, on 
behalf of my co-chairs and the AoIR Ethics Working Group, you are warmly 
invited to our open discussion of the DRAFT overview/introduction to IRE 
3.0:

Thursday, 11/Oct/2018
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Sheraton - Salon 4

The document in its current state represents some two years of work by 
many hands, including organizers and participants at the ethics-related 
sessions at AoIR in 2016 and 2017, as well as subsequent conferences and 
workshops organized in Aarhus, Denmark, and Oslo, Norway.  We are 
especially grateful to Anna Jobin and aline franzke for their extensive 
work on setting up our Slack space, the beginnings of a Zotero 
repository of documents, and substantive contributions to the structure 
and content of many of these documents.

The opening summary is appended below to give you an initial sense of 
how the overview /introduction is shaping up, along with affiliated 
documents.

We will make the document available in electronic format at the 
beginning of the session, accompanied by a brief introduction and 
overview from the co-chairs.  The idea is to solicit your further 
critical comments and suggestions for improving the document over the 
coming year, with a view towards final submission at the AoIR 2019 meeting.

We know the conference schedule is packed full of compellingly 
interesting panels and presentations - but we hope many of you will be 
able to find the time and energy to attend the session on Thursday. As 
with our previous ethics documents, this work depends centrally on your 
individual and collective wisdom and experience for its further 
development.
Safe travels and see you there,

- charles ess, Co-Chair, AoIR IRE 3.0 Ethics Working Group;
Anja Bechman (Aarhus), Co-Chair,
aline shakti franzke (University of Duisburg-Essen), Co-Chair
Michael Zimmer (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Co-Chair
Anne Hove Henriksen (Aarhus), Research Assistant and Administrator
The AoIR IRE 3.0 Ethics Working Group, including: David J. Brake, Ane 
Kathrine Gammelby, Nele Heise, Annette Markham, Katrin Tildenberg, and 
Paul J. Reilly.

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Summary
This document introduces Internet Research Ethics (IRE) 3.0.  We begin 
with a review of the AoIR ethical approaches and guidelines that we now 
designate as IRE 1.0 (Ess and the AoIR ethics working committee, 2002) 
and IRE 2.0 (Markham and Buchanan 2012; Ess, 2017):  while driven by 
on-going changes and developments in the technological, legal, and 
ethical contexts that shape internet research, IRE 1.0 and 2.0 ground a 
basic ethical approach that continues as foundational for IRE 3.0.
IRE 3.0 is then illustrated by way of two emerging elements – namely, 
greater attention to stages of research and what has become a standard 
problem of informed consent in Big Data research approaches.  We then 
list and more briefly discuss the primary additional ethical challenges 
in IRE 3.0 as identified by the AoIR Ethics Working Group (EWG).  We 
offer a general structure for ethical analysis, designed to help 
identify the ethically-relevant issues and questions, along with 
additional suggestions for how to begin to analyze and address these 
challenges in more detail.
We aim to take up and exemplify this general structure as guiding more 
extensive analyses of specific modules in IRE 3.0, to be developed by 
teams made up of EWG members. Our first module on Artificial 
Intelligence and Machine Learning is being developed by Anja Bechmann 
and Bendert Zevenbergen.  A second module on Corporate Data is being 
developed.  These specific modules will be included in a second series 
of documents, to be made available as they are ready as well as modified 
in light of subsequent developments.
In these ways, we aim to produce “living documents,” i.e., documents 
that remain open to expansion and revision as ongoing technological 
developments demand.
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Professor in Media Studies
Department of Media and Communication
University of Oslo
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