Ethical issues of e-research from a health perspective
The growing potential of health informatics and the use of linked datasets offer opportunities for a new wave of health research which can track large numbers of individuals or populations across...
View ArticleInventing enlightened ways of relating to e-environments
Written by Ekaterina de Vries, edevries@vub.ac.be PhD at the Center for Law, Science, Technology & Society Studies (LSTS) Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 /1050 Brussel Belgium To invent...
View ArticleEthical issues in digital data archiving and sharing
The development of a manifesto on ethics of e-research assumes that e-research differs from other research approaches, therefore requiring its own set of ethical guidelines. In considering the...
View ArticleAutomation
In the early days of e-Research there was much talk of the data deluge (from new scientific instruments, sensor networks, online transactions…) and how researchers couldn’t cope: manual triaging of...
View ArticleUpcoming Workshop, E-research Ethics: What are the issues? What can...
In the framework of the project ‘e-research ethics’, a workshop will be held in Amsterdam on 12 October 2010. In the course of the afternoon, participants will discuss and reflect on the issues around...
View ArticleAgile Ethics
I advocate an agile research principle for working in the digital social sciences. This is a mode of engagement, a sensibility for good practice, more than a formal list of procedures or protocols. An...
View ArticleInternet research ethics: revisiting the relations between technologies,...
Challenges in internet research are part of a broader landscape of change in the production, dissemination and status of knowledge. Such shifts include the blurring of producer and consumer, the moving...
View ArticleComputation, digitisation and the source of social values
When the word ‘ethics’ is used in an e-research context, very often it is closely followed by the word ‘regulation’. This is understandable, since many of the capabilities of e-research technologies...
View ArticleKey ethical concerns that should travel between e-social and e-natural science
by Sabina Leonelli ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis) University of Exeter Web interactions and ICTs enable the production and dissemination of huge masses of data of different types. On the...
View ArticleResearching the public web
by Mike Thelwall, Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK. I would like to make the case that academic researchers should not have any restrictions placed on the kinds...
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