“Un-Googling”: Research Technologies, Communities at Risk and the Ethics of User Studies in HCI

Irina Shklovski, Janet Vertesi

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    Abstract

    Recent increase in volume of qualitative work on transnational technologies, HCI for development, virtual communities, and collaborative systems across a range of areas has resulted in focus on user communities whose very uniqueness may be of interest to HCI, but whose exposure in a research setting presents real threats to those individual’s or community’s livelihoods, work, or civil liberties. As the tools of research dissemination increasingly make scholarly publications more easily accessible to the public and other entities outside the academic community through simple search engines, scholars must grapple with new challenges to the ethics of exposure. We present a case-study of un-Googling publication of research results and consider potential problems with such an approach to minimizing risk to research participants.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    BogserieElectronic Workshops in Computing
    Vol/bindHCI Research in Sensitive Contexts: Ethical Considerations
    Antal sider4
    ISSN1477-9358
    StatusUdgivet - 2012

    Emneord

    • un-googling
    • ethics
    • exposure
    • anonymity
    • publication

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