Hallvard Fossheim and Helene Ingierd
Consent and information – ethical considerations when conducting research on social media
Dag Elgesem
Example 1: Research on Internet dating services
Retaining control over one’s own information
Example 2: Research on Facebook
Reasonable expectation – of what?
Example 3: Research on political debate on Twitter
The need for protection against identification
Example 4: Research on Internet communication about mental health problems
Example 5: Research on communication processes
Possibilities and limitations of Internet research: A legal framework
Katrine Utaaker Segadal
New European legislation in the making
The current Norwegian legal framework
Data protection principles online
Obligation to provide information
New selves, new research ethics?
Charles Ess
Initial (high modern) ethical frameworks for decision–making in (Internet) research ethics
Shared assumptions: (high modern) Individual agency, privacy, and IRE
(High modern) notions of selfhood/identity: Privacy as a positive good
Individual privacy as definitive for «traditional» Internet Research Ethics
(Late modern) shifts in selfhood, responsibility and privacy
Changing conceptions of selfhood and responsibility
Changing privacy practices and expectations of privacy protections
Changing philosophical conceptions of privacy
Relational selves and Internet research ethics: Successes (and failure) in the field
Researching social media: Confidentiality, anonymity and reconstructing online practices
Marika Lüders
Background: Researching online practices
Example 1: The use of social media among young people
Example 2: The use of a social intranet among knowledge workers
On research methodology, ethics and policy development
Elisabeth Staksrud
Example 1: Listening to the child
Social research and Big Data – the tension between opportunities and realities
Kari Steen-Johnsen and Bernard Enjolras
Big Data – what is it and what can it be used for?
Opportunities and limitations for social research
What characterizes the new ecosystem for the production of knowledge?
The responsibilities and challenges of research
Studying Big Data – ethical and methodological considerations
Anders Olof Larsson
Big Data – size is everything?
Meanderings in an uncharted ethical landscape
Robindra Prabhu
Treading ground between the enthusiasts and the sceptics
Moving beyond the hype: «Three paradoxes of Big Data»
Collect first, ask questions later