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Why do we need a manifesto on ethics of
e-research?

• Anne Beaulieu
• Virtual Knowledge Studio
• anne.beaulieu_at_vks.knaw.nl
• The ethical issues of e-research
• Festival of Methods, Oxford UK
• 7 July 2010

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Why do we need a manifesto on ethics of
e-research?

• Who is WE?
• What is this Need?
• Why a manifesto?
• Why ethics?
• Why e-research?

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need ?

• Ethics as practice needs articulation
• as ongoing part of research
• Need for researcher protection 
• Over-regulation
• undue restrictions on research
• lack of attention to ethical moments
• pedagogically unsound

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Why a manifesto?

• Articulate ethical issues and ways of dealing
  with them
• Taking a stance
• Outcome of discussion
• Starting point for further debate

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Why address ethics?

• Greater accountability of researchers receiving
  public money
• Pressure from funders to increase scale and
  disciplinary breadth of research teams
• Ethical turn in social science and humanities
• Rise of ethical approval committees
• Increased presence of new media in research and
  communication
• Increased availability of data arising from
  mundane social practices
• Creation of new research infrastructures and tools

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Why e-research?

• Critical consideration of problematization
• Increased collaboration
• Reuse of data and data sharing
• Infrastructural aspects (scale and networked
  relations)
• Relation to institutional frameworks
• Redefining the relations between researchers and
  subjects, between researchers, and between
  researchers and stakeholders

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