2023/12/14 by Joseph S. Schafer, Kate Starbird, Schafer, Joseph S. +1
Computer Science · Engineering · Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Computer science #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #Engineering #Engineering ethics #Ethics in Clinical Research #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Focus (optics) #Harm #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Information ethics #Internet privacy #Law #Political science #Privacy, Security, and Data Protection #Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data #Psychology #Public relations #Research ethics #Research integrity #Sociology #The Internet #World Wide Web
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.09395
published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University)
openalex publication_date 2023/12/14 · openalex created_date 2023/12/19 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Traditional research ethics has mainly and rightly been focused on making sure that participants are treated safely, justly, and ethically, to avoid the violation of their rights or putting participants in harm's way. Information integrity research within CSCW has also correspondingly mainly focused on these issues, and the focus of internet research ethics has primarily focused on increasing protections of participant data. However, as branches of internet research focus on more fraught contexts such as information integrity and problematic information, more explicit consideration of other ethical frames and subjects is warranted. In this workshop paper, we argue that researcher protections should be more explicitly considered and acknowledged in these studies, and should be considered alongside more standard ethical considerations for participants and for broader society.