Ethics

Lee Miller: Ethics, photography and ethnography
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September 30, 2024

Lee Miller: Ethics, photography and ethnography

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Tipster’s Note Offers View of Academic Publishing’s Achilles Heel
Communication
July 25, 2023

Tipster’s Note Offers View of Academic Publishing’s Achilles Heel

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‘Optopia’ and the Politics of Hope
Business and Management INK
July 7, 2023

‘Optopia’ and the Politics of Hope

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Interview Describes Biases That Manifest In Artificial Intelligence Systems
Impact
June 7, 2023

Interview Describes Biases That Manifest In Artificial Intelligence Systems

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How to Practice Aristotelian Deliberation in Business Organizations

How to Practice Aristotelian Deliberation in Business Organizations

The authors argue that Aristotelian ethics of deliberation is a safeguard against the risks of ideological conditioning, false debates, and instrumentalization of power by the strongest people.

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Helen Kara Calls for Doing Research As If Our Human Participants Mattered

Helen Kara Calls for Doing Research As If Our Human Participants Mattered

Human research participants are frequently rendered passively in research outputs as ‘research subjects.’ Helen Kara presents three ways in which research participants can be made more central to research.

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Future Business Leaders, Ethical Values, and National Economic Freedom:  A View from Business Students in Eight Countries

Future Business Leaders, Ethical Values, and National Economic Freedom: A View from Business Students in Eight Countries

Ethics, goes one line of reasoning, are great for those who can afford them. It’s a cynical view, to be sure, but what effect does the economic terrain affect ethical orientation?

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Setting the Norms of Internet-based Survey Research

Setting the Norms of Internet-based Survey Research

A decade ago, Elizabeth Buchanan and Erin Hvizdak set forth, in the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, some of the key elements that have since guided guiding ethical academic use of internet research methods.

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Leon Redbone, Fact Checking, and Ethnography

Leon Redbone, Fact Checking, and Ethnography

In recent popular music, there have been few if any performers as enigmatic as the late Leon Redbone, who died on May 30. With a vintage repertoire featuring tunes from ragtime, blues, vaudeville, and Tin Pan Alley, and always appearing in dark glasses and a Panama hat, he looked like a figure straight out of the 1920s.

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The Civic Responsibility of Ethnographers

The Civic Responsibility of Ethnographers

What duty do social scientists have to report illegal activity that they witness as part of their fieldwork? If you answered quickly, you may not have thought about the issue all that deeply.

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Sir Cliff Richard, the BBC and the Ethics of Interviewing

Sir Cliff Richard, the BBC and the Ethics of Interviewing

The recent brouhaha involving the BBC and the singer points out something the journalists and qualitative researchers share: the need to develop a common approach to the ethics of interviewing.

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How Do We Head Off the Collateral Damage of Big Data?

How Do We Head Off the Collateral Damage of Big Data?

Hamish Robertson and Joanne Travaglia argue that big data quantification is now not only a mechanism for extracting information but has become an idea with social and political power in its own right. The lack of critique of quantitative methods and their application contributes to the existing and potentially coercive power of digital information systems and their attendant methods, and enhances the potential for collateral damage.

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