Research Ethics in the Digital Age: Ethics for the Social Sciences and Humanities in Times of Mediatization and Digitization

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The book discusses the multiple issues of a digital research ethic in its interdisciplinary diversity. Digitization and mediatization alter social behavior and cultural traditions, thereby generating new objects of study and new research questions for the social sciences and humanities. Furthermore, mediatization and digitization increase the data volume and accessibility of (quantitative) research and proliferate methodological opportunities for scientific analyses. Hence, they profoundly affect research practices in multiple ways. While consequences concerning the subjects, objects, and addressees of research in the social sciences and humanities have rarely been reflected upon, this reflection lies at the center of the book. Front Matter ....Pages I-VI Introduction (Jana Fischer, Farina Madita Dobrick, Lutz M. Hagen)....Pages 1-4 Front Matter ....Pages 5-5 Research Ethics in the Digital Age: Fundamentals and Problems (Hermann Diebel-Fischer)....Pages 7-21 What’s Responsible for the Retraction Boom? (Adam Marcus, Ivan Oransky)....Pages 23-28 Data Protection Laws, Research Ethics and Social Sciences (Anne Lauber-Rönsberg)....Pages 29-44 Crowd-Based Documentation of Plagiarism: The VroniPlag Wiki Experience (Gerhard Dannemann)....Pages 45-67 The Empowerment of Users: Rethinking Educational Practice Online (Pascal Marquet, Thomas Köhler)....Pages 69-86 Front Matter ....Pages 87-87 Perception of Digital Methods’ Ethics among Egyptian Researchers (Hesham Ahmed Faied)....Pages 89-94 Rural India in the Digital Age ( Manushi)....Pages 95-99 Ethical Issues in Collecting Data from Informant of the Field (Sandrine M. Sidze, Thomas Köhler, Joerg Szarzynski)....Pages 101-104 Front Matter ....Pages 105-105 ‘Getting What They Deserve’: Digital Media Readers Comment on the Cause of Detroit’s Bankruptcy (Derek Roberts)....Pages 107-110 Journalists on Twitter: Reconfiguring Professional Identity, Reconsidering Research Ethics – The Case of Croatia (Iva Nenadic)....Pages 111-117 Human Rights and the Regulation of Anonymity. New Challenges to Law and Research (Helga María Lell)....Pages 119-127 Online and Offline: The Ethical Considerations of Researching the Use of Social Media by Traditional Journalists in Northern Nigerian Newsroom (Umar Suleiman Jahun)....Pages 129-133 Front Matter ....Pages 135-135 Media Ethics in Research on Video-Based Mental Health Care (Nadine Schaarschmidt)....Pages 137-142 Intersecting the Digital Maze. Considering Ethics in Cloud-Based Services’ Research (Daniel Kerpen, Matthias Dorgeist, Sascha Zantis)....Pages 143-152 Research Ethics in the Doctoral Project “Boundary Management in Social Media Communication” (Jana Riedel)....Pages 153-156 Reflecting on Ethics in the Investigation of Online Communication during Emergencies (Eva Goldgruber, Julian Ausserhofer, Harald Hornmoen, Steen Steensen, Klas Backholm, Gudrun Reimerth et al.)....Pages 157-163