[Air-L] some useful resources for researchers from the VOX-POL project

[Charles M. Ess]

Dear AoIRists, cc. to Maura Conway,

Our colleagues at the VOX-POL project, headed by Maura Conway, have 
recently gathered a page of "Researcher Resources" - "a directory of 
tools, datasets, events and other useful links, which are collected and 
grouped by topic."

This is a very valuable collection indeed, including, e.g., a library of 
resources, datasets and tools, and so on.

Allow me to particularly call attention to the first subset on ethics, 
which includes both the AoIR and NESH guidelines - as well as more 
specific reports and resources developed and taken up over the course of 
the venerable VOX-POL project.

[In the name of full disclosure, both I and Elizabeth Buchanan served as 
ethics advisors to the project.]

A second subset focuses on "Researcher Welfare 1: Privacy and Security." 
A defining thematic in the 3.0 revisions of the AoIR ethics guidelines 
is precisely the rising importance of "protecting the researcher." I 
think we made a good start in collecting resources for doing so - some 
of which are also included here: but the additional resources listed 
here will be very valuable indeed for researchers needing to take ever 
greater care against becoming a target of the researched.

Finally, a third subset is on Researcher Well-Being - also invaluable.

I have every confidence that AoIRists will find these resources 
exceptionally helpful and valuable indeed: a thousand thanks to Maura 
and her colleagues for making these available.

all best,
- charles
-- 
Professor in Media Studies
Department of Media and Communication
University of Oslo
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Fellow, Siebold-Collegiums Institute for Advanced Studies, 
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany

Co-chair & Editor, Internet Research Ethics 3.0
<https://aoir.org/reports/ethics3.pdf>

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