[Air-L] got ethics? Two ethics panels tomorrow!

[Charles M. Ess]

of course you do ...
At least, this is the primary starting point of the approaches to 
developing ethics guidelines for internet research since the inception 
of AoIR - i.e., that enculturated human beings in general and 
practitioners in particular bring to the tables of ethical reflection 
and deliberation our extensive experience and capacities for ethical 
judgment and decision-making.
Our dialogical processes have further involved applied ethicists, 
philosophers of technology, cross-cultural perspectives, any number of 
colleagues in the social sciences, humanities, mathematics, computer 
science, network engineering - you name it - issuing in, among other 
things, three documents on internet research ethics that have often 
proven to be centrally useful to both researchers and ethics review 
boards around the globe.

Moreover, the AoIR conferences have included attention to ethical 
matters beyond internet research ethics: this year, in particular, the 
CFP included Power, justice and inequality in digitally mediated lives; 
Life, sex, and death vis-a-vis social media; and Political Life online.

As many of you know/recall, this year inaugurates a new collaboration 
with the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 
(JICES) and AoIR.  The aim is to encourage the development of papers and 
then articles appropriate to the JICES' foci on social and ethical 
issues evoked in "the planning, development, implementation and use of 
new media and information technologies."

I'm very pleased to note that the CFP evoked a terrific series of papers 
that will be presented tomorrow, October 29, in two panels:

Theoretical and Practical Research Ethics: Three Cases (12.00-13.00 UTC)

Legal and Ethical Perspectives on (Big) Data, Platforms, AI and 
Algorithms (15.00-16.00 UTC)

If you browse the titles and abstracts, you'll find a wide diversity of 
topics and approaches that will all but certainly overlap with one or 
more of the ethical matters of interest, if not compelling urgency, to 
you and yours, whether as practitioners and/or human beings and citizens 
in the contemporary worlds.

Both panels will be hosted on Zoom: links and additional information can 
be found on the AoIR calendar.

On behalf of our panelists and co-organizer aline shakti franzke, we 
warmly encourage you to expand and sharpen your ethical chops by 
participating in the panels as you can.

Many thanks and hope to see many of you there.

all best,
- charles ess

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

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>

3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics now out:
<http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428>

Postboks 1093
Blindern 0317
Oslo, Norway
c.m.ess at media.uio.no