Exploring Ethics And Obligations For Studying Digital Communities

Keywords

Ethics; Hci; Human subjects; Online communities; Policy; Privacy; Social computing; Sociotechnical systems

Abstract

Many of the most prominent and unanswered ethical questions within HCI and social computing involve our ethical obligation to the communities that we study. Some of these questions fall under the purview of more traditional human subjects research ethics, but others hinge on when, for example, studies of public data trigger similar obligations. Basic rules to "do no harm" are complicated in digital communities by issues of consent and privacy, and ethics review boards are struggling to keep up even as research communities are similarly struggling to form appropriate norms. The goals of this workshop are to continue seeding conversations about research ethics within the SIGCHI community, to work towards norm setting, and in the meantime, to collectively help community members make good ethical decisions about research into sociotechnical systems and digital communities. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).

Publication Date

11-13-2016

Publication Title

Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volume

13-16-November-2016

Number of Pages

457-460

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/2957276.2996293

Socpus ID

85005952125 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85005952125

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