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Michael Zimmer1, Ylva Hård af Segerstad2, Sarah Ann Gilbert3, Kate Miltner4, Tim Highfield4, Huichuan Xia5
1Marquette University, United States of America; 2University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 3Cornell University, United States of America; 4University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; 5Peking University, China
This is one of two panels organized by the AoIR Ethics Working Committee. This panel on “Emergent Challenges” collects three papers exploring a broad range of emergent research practices and contexts that present ethical challenges for internet research, while also providing possible roadmaps towards addressing these concerns, including the need for a pluralistic view of research ethics in a global context.. Emergent challenges addressed by this collection of papers include: working through the obstacles and pressures that researchers experience when conducting research on technologies across a range of diverse constituencies; investigating the varying understandings of what constitutes “ethical” or “unethical” internet research practices across national, institutional, and disciplinary contexts; and exploring how human subjects research ethics is understood and applied in China, complicating “western” ethical guidelines as universal principles. These papers are among those under consideration for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society associated with the AoIR Ethics Working Committee and AoIR2023.
