Ethics should be a consideration in every aspect of research, from project planning, data collection and analysis to dissemination.
The below resources should be utilised in conjunction with the advice of your institution’s Research Ethics Committee/Institutional Review Board and any relevant legislation applicable in your jurisdiction (e.g. GDPR).
If you have an appropriate contribution for addition to this page, please contact us at info@voxpol.eu.
Association of Internet Researchers
Association of Internet Researchers
Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee from the Association of Internet Researchers
British Psychological Society
Norwegian National Research Ethics Committee
Access multiple reports containing reflections on ethics issues, including J.M. Berger's 'Researching Violent Extremism: The State of Play,' which includes sections on 'Ethical Challenges: Designations, Biases, and Disclosures' and 'Practical Challenges: Safety and Access' (pp.'s 6-11), and Joe Whittaker's 'Building Secondary Source Databases on Violent Extremism: Reflections andSuggestions,' which includes a section on 'Ethical Considerations' (pp.'s 14-16).
This brief review reflects on the ethics of big data research methodologies, and how novel methods complicate long-standing principles of research ethics; specifically, the concept of the 'data subject' as a corollary, or replacement, of 'human subject' is considered.
This article pays particular attention to the UK Terrorism Acts.
Open access VOX-Pol report authored by Dounia Mahlouly (SOAS). This study highlights some of the ethical dilemmas faced by the academic community tasked with developing new methodological tools and conceptual frameworks for the study of violent online political extremism.
VOX-Pol Blog post (Sept. 2018) authored by Carol Winkler (Georgia State University).
VOX-Pol Blog post (May. 2018) authored by Gabe Maldoff, a privacy and data protection lawyer at Bird & Bird LLP in London.
VOX-Pol Blog post (Sept. 2018) authored by Mike Edwards (University of South Wales).
VOX-Pol Blog post (Sept. 2010) authored by Brad Galloway (University of Fraser Valley) and originally posted on Moonshot CVE.
An article on Medium (April 2019) by Casey Fiesler (CU Boulder).
Part one of a PRIF Blog series by Sebastian Golla and Denise Müller, covering the legal issues around web scraping.
Part two of a PRIF Blog series by Sebastian Golla und Denise Müller, covering the specific legal issues around Copyright and Data Protection.