Ethics of care : conducting research on digital harms / Christopher Dietzel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dietzel, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet--Moral and ethical aspects.

Internet.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2026.

Summary:

This How-to Guide explores how an ethics of care can be applied to research on digital harms, shifting the questions of ethics from university procedures or consent forms to a reflective, relational, and responsible practice that extends throughout the project. This guide encourages a reconsideration of how digital harms are defined so that the term encapsulates individual behaviors and incidents as well as harms embedded in and perpetuated by broader sociotechnical systems. The guide also explains how intersectionality and positionality help researchers understand how vulnerability shifts across identities, contexts, platforms, and power structures rather than being fixed or inherent to certain populations. Methodologically, the guide explores ethical challenges that arise across different stages of the research process, including data collection, data analysis, and knowledge mobilization. Practically, the guide offers suggestions for how to base research processes in an ethics of care and poses reflective questions to help readers consider potential risks that can arise through their project. In doing so, this guide encourages researchers to be attentive, reflexive, and relational before, during, and after a project, and it invites them to move beyond a “Do no harm” approach toward research that actively promotes well-being, reciprocity, accountability, and long-term responsibility. In sum, this guide aims to support researchers in making ethical, context-sensitive decisions that recognize digital harms as both technical and social, addressing them with values-based decisions and care in every stage of the research process.

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ISBN:

9781036249489

OCLC:

1594889473

Publisher Number:

T302184