Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society: Volume 20 Issue 3

Guest editorial: Introduction to AoIR 2021 papers on emerging ethical practices and platform challenges

Michael Zimmer

Critical care for the early web: ethical digital methods for archived youth data

Katie Mackinnon

This paper aims to provide a brief overview of the ethical challenges facing researchers engaging with web archival materials and demonstrates a framework and method for…

Ethical dilemmas when conducting sensitive research: interviewing offenders convicted of child pornography

Marie Eneman

This article aims to describe the personal experience and ethical dilemmas that the author encountered when conducting qualitative research on a highly sensitive topic, i.e…

The original sin of crowd work for human subjects research

Huichuan Xia

Academic scholars have leveraged crowd work platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk for human subjects research for almost two decades. However, few scholars have reflected or…

Mapping data ethics curricula

Jonathan Reeve, Isabelle Zaugg, Tian Zheng

As data-driven tools increasingly shape our life and tech ethics crises become strikingly frequent, data ethics coursework is urgently needed. The purpose of this study is to map…