[Air-L] Unofficial Risky Research Working Group

Thu Nov 17 10:14:48 PST 2022

Thank you for sharing about this panel and thank you Alice for your work on
this.

For folks looking for additional resources on this:

My book *Engage in Public Scholarship* touches on this topic (here is the
OA link:
https://press.library.concordia.ca/projects/engage-in-public-scholarship)

 and I also released a report back in 2020 looking at what universities do
to protect scholars facing trolling, doxxing, and harassment when they are
engaged in this work:
https://medium.com/@alexandraketchum/report-on-the-state-of-resources-provided-to-support-scholars-against-harassment-trolling-and-401bed8cfbf1

I hope this is useful for you all!
-Alex

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 1:01 PM Evelina Liliequist via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> Great initative Alice!
>
> We welcome research about these issues for a panel at SIEF 2023. See below.
>
> SIEF Call for Papers
> Brno 7-10 June, 2023
>
> Precarious Topics, Precarious Researchers<
> https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/sief2023/p/12760>
>
> Convenors:
> Robert Glenn Howard (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
> Evelina Liliequist (Humlab, Umeå University)
>
>
> Researchers are increasingly subject to risks when working with divisive
> topics online. From death threats to “doxing,” digital landscapes such as
> anti-gender, anti-science, and populism among many others raise important
> questions about when and how researchers can or should seek protection. The
> ethical practices for protecting research participants is a given part of a
> research process. But what protocols and strategies are available for
> researchers?
>
> Studying toxic environments, and/or emotionally and physically heavy
> subjects could also mean a risk for the researcher. What support is at hand
> for researchers from their Universities, and from the research community in
> such situations?
>
> Moreover, contemporary political contexts entail that we live in
> precarious times - with acts of war, extremism and polarized political
> discourses imbuing our everyday lives - resulting for some researchers in
> physical threats and exil. For others in safer places, the question of
> solidarity and responsibility cannot be ignored.
>
> This panel invites contributions addressing how the complexity of threats
> to research and researchers can be approached, for instance:
>
> - research in toxic digital environments,
>
> - risks entailed by the online presence of the researcher,
>
> - digital precarity of researchers in exil, or
>
> - threats towards academic freedom.
>
> One purpose of the panel is also to gather strategies and resources for
> protecting researchers such as examples of solidarity and ways of
> preventing and coping with online abuse and researchers' vulnerability.
> Welcome to propose your paper today:
> https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/sief2023/p/12760
> Deadline 10 January, 2023
>
> If you have questions about the panel email us:
> Evelina: evelina.liliequist at umu.se<mailto:evelina.liliequist at umu.se>
> Robert: rghoward2 at wisc.edu<mailto:rghoward2 at wisc.edu>
>
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> Skickat: Wednesday, November 16, 2022 9:18:54 PM
> Till: Alice E. Marwick <amarwick at gmail.com>
> Kopia: air-l <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Ämne: Re: [Air-L] Unofficial Risky Research Working Group
>
> 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:
> >
> >
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> > 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
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Alex Ketchum, PhD

Faculty Lecturer at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist
Studies at McGill University

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The Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Technologies
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