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Annamaria Carusi & Marina Jirotka, Law and Ethics in e-Social Science Workshop
1. Oxford e-Social Science Project
Law and Ethics in e-Social
Sciences
Annamaria Carusi
Christopher Millard
Marina Jirotka
2. Workshop Agenda
9:30 - 9:50 Introduction and Background
Annamaria Carusi & Marina Jirotka
9:50 - 10:15 Legally Compliant Use of Personal Data in e-Social Science
Chritopher Millard
10:15 - 10:40 Ethical Sharing and Reuse of Qualitative Data Sets
Libby Bishop
10:40 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:25 Anonymisation and Pseudonymisation in Large Data Sets for
Medical Research
David Trower
11:25 - 11:50 Ethical Challenges for Social Networking Research
Bernie Hogan
11:50 - 12:50 Roundtable Discussion: Privacy on the Next Generation Internet
12:50 - 13:00 Conclusion
3. Data in e-Social Science
Data use, reuse
Data access, archiving and deposit,
management
Data mining and aggregation
Qualitative and quantitative research
4. Ethical challenges
Internet enables tools and services that create
new opportunities for social science
Also open up gaps and indeterminacies in
traditional or current practices
Of social science
Of social living
Ethical boundaries of both are stretched,
extended, interrogated, challenged
5. Institutional challenges
Lack of understanding of Institutional Research
Review Boards
Application of medical model to social science
research -- always a problem and limitation but
especially in this domain
Tensions with personal or disciplinary ethics
Tensions with requirements of funding bodies or
with legal requirements
6. Legal challenges
Personal data
Legal requirements regarding
anonymisation and pseudonymisation
Legal requirements regarding aggregation
Legal jurisdiction
7. Methodological and
Disciplinary Challenges
Anonymisation and the usefulness of data
Relationships with research participants
Disciplinary orientations towards data
Challenge to the way in which social
science claims are validated
8. Social Science Data:
the bigger picture
Ethics does not only pertain to possible re-
identification of an individual
Cultural differences regarding whether privacy is
of an individual or of a group (a family, a
business, a clan)
Ethics also pertains to:
Representation as
Engendering or production of representation (how
does a representation come to have the features that
it does have?)
Purposes and goals
9. Techno-social science
How can the possibilities of e-Social
Science be exploited in order to produce
an ethically pro-active and productive
mode of social science?
10. Thank you!
annamaria.carusi@oerc.ox.ac.uk
christopher.millard@oii.ox.ac.uk
marina.jirotka@oerc.ox.ac.uk
Carusi, A. (2008) Data as Representation: Beyond Anonymity in e-Research
Ethics, International Journal of Internet Research Ethics, 1 (1).
Carusi & Jirotka (2009) From Data Archive to Ethical Labyrinth, Qualitative
Research, 9 (3).