[Air-L] Unofficial Risky Research Working Group

[Peter Timusk]

There was discussion by some scholars in the 2017 AoIR workshop in Tartu
Estonia about researching hacker communities and some practical
considerations for safety.

I work in a national statistics agency and while I can't represent the
agency,  we have hundreds of professional interviewers who work with us who
have methods that I can probably find documentation on to share. Mostly we
have our banks of telephone interviewers but we have field interviewers
too. I should be able to find public information about our safety
techniques.

On Wed., Nov. 16, 2022, 12:19 p.m. Alice E. Marwick via Air-L, <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> At AOIR22, I volunteered to head up an unofficial AOIR effort about
> protecting people from risky research - research that puts scholars at risk
> from networked harassment, online abuse, reputational damage, and
> emotional/mental health impacts. The goal is to create a document somewhat
> similar to the AOIR Ethics Guide to help both individuals and institutions
> mitigate such risk, with an emphasis on collective rather than
> individual solutions.
>
> I am looking for people interested in working on this project in any
> capacity - brainstorming, research, writing, resources, etc. My goal is to
> draw on the massive expertise of AOIR members, many of whom I know already
> work on this or similar efforts.
>
> I have put together a Google Doc summarizing the preliminary vision for
> this effort and a Google Form that you can fill out to get involved.
>
> Doc:
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/15X_RLQMm3Bl0UeIngoVzilkenYMpqsso7WEfwL9vgYA/edit?usp=sharing
> Form: https://forms.gle/kUR3Kns8H7wArCYF7
>
> If you have already contacted me about wanting to be involved, thanks!
> Please fill out the form anyway because I don't want anyone to fall through
> the cracks and this will help me keep all the ideas in one place.
>
> Let me know if there are any questions! Also, can someone repost this to
> the ECR/grad Discord?
>
> Thanks!
> Alice
> Alice E. Marwick, PhD (she/her)
> Associate Professor, Department of Communication
> Principal Researcher, Center for Information, Technology and Public Life
> (CITAP)
> University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> amarwick at gmail.com
> http://www.tiara.org  <http://www.tiara.org>
> http://citap.unc.edu  <http://citap.unc.edu>
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