[Air-L] protecting the researchers?

[Charles M. Ess]

Dear AoIRists,

as many of you know, one of the central additions to the AoIR Internet 
Research Ethics 3.0 was a focus on protecting the researchers, as 
catalyzed by phenomena such as #Gamergate as well as increasing research 
on violent extremists, etc.

Thanks to the help of several colleagues - Leonie Tanczer, Lindsay 
Blackwell, Katherine Lo, Alice Marwick, and Fiona Martin, among others - 
we were able to gather some helpful resources in the document as well as 
offer Keith Douglas' very helpful list of suggestions and discussion on 
"Operational Security: Central Considerations" (7.1, pp. 78ff.)

So far as I can gather, threats to researcher safety have only abounded 
since; at the same time, I've been asked to offer a small workshop 
(remotely) on Researcher Safety at Umeå University in February: so ...

1) are there any additional resources people would recommend, especially 
to early career stage researchers, useful / helpful / inspiring in 
helping take whatever steps we can to protect ourselves?

2) are there additional examples that might be useful to refer to as 
highlighting / foregrounding the possible risks and / or ways to counter 
them?

Will happily and gratefully acknowledge any help and suggestions you may 
offer - and will try to collect and summarize them for the list.

Many thanks in advance,
- charles
-- 
Professor Emeritus
University of Oslo
<http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html>

Secretary, IFIP Working Group 9.8, Gender, Diversity, and ICT
<http://ifiptc9.org/9-8/>

Fellow, Siebold-Collegiums Institute for Advanced Studies, 
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany

3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics now out:
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