[Air-L] JICES special issue on "Emerging Ethical Practices and Platform Challenges" from #AoIR2021

[Zimmer, Michael]

Colleagues:

I'm thrilled to announce the publication of the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (JICES) special issue highlighting notable contributions in the domain of internet research ethics from the 2021 Association of Internet Researchers (#AoIR2021) annual conference.
https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/1477-996X/vol/20/iss/3

The AoIR Ethics Working Group organized two panels at #AoIR2021 consisting of eight papers that engaged with research ethics. From these, and after a review of the entire conference program, four papers went through full peer review at JICES and represent AoIR’s continued engagement with the ethical dimensions of internet research from various disciplinary perspectives, methods, and platforms.

“Critical Care and the Early Web: Ethical Digital Methods for Archived Youth Data” by Katherine Mackinnon details the ethical challenges facing researchers engaging with web archival materials and historical web data created by young people https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JICES-12-2021-0125/full/html

“Ethical Dilemmas when Conducting Sensitive Research: Interviewing Offenders Convicted of Child Pornography” by Marie Eneman reflects on the ethical dilemmas that emerge when conducting qualitative research on highly sensitive topics, such as offenders convicted of child pornography https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JICES-03-2022-0028/full/html

“The Original Sin of Crowd Work for Academic Research” by Huichuan Xia provides an ethical analysis of scholars' increasing reliance on crowd work platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) for research implementation and data collection. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JICES-12-2021-0126/full/html

And “Mapping Data Ethics Curricula” by Tian Zheng, Isabelle Zaugg, and Jonathan Reeve, provides a structured analysis of a large corpus of data ethics syllabi, providing. tool for exploring semantic relations between courses, instructors, texts, and authors https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JICES-12-2021-0124/full/html

Congrats to the authors, and thanks to the numerous peer reviewers for both the AoIR conference panels & the JICES special issue. I especially wish to express thanks to Ylva Hård af Segerstad & Charles Ess for their invaluable support throughout this process.

See you in Dublin!

Thanks,
Michael

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Michael Zimmer, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Director, Center for Data, Ethics, and Society
Marquette University
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