Global Networks:Open Methods

Bill Dutton Oxford Internet Institute (OII)

University of Oxfordwww.ox.ac.uk

Presentation for ‘Digitisation: Big Word, Big Impact: The Ethical Implications for Research and Researchers’, Association of Research Ethics Committees, BIS Conference Centre, 1 Victoria Street, London, 17 February 2011.

A Case: Politics of Open Science

Digitisation and Innovation in Research

Ethical Arenas

Adequacy of the Current Ethics Regime

What Can Be Done?

Big Impact

Global Networks: Open Methods

Open Science

Freedom of Information

Academic Freedom

Freedom of Expression

Anonymity, Confidentiality, Privacy

Informed Consent, Avoiding Deception, …

Replication, Validity, Quality of Science

A Case:

The Politics of Competing Values

Digitisation and Everyday Life

Digitisation and Research

Qualitative Data Collection and Archiving

Quantitative Data Collection

Behavioural Data

Embedded ICTs

Virtual Worlds and Experiments

Virtual Companions, Agents, Robots

Crowdsourcing – Collective Intelligence

Arenas for Ethical Issues

Ethical Arenas

Centrality of a Politics of Ethics: Balancing Values

Limits of a Substitution Paradigm: Not Just Old Wine in New Bottles

Strains on Current Institutional Arrangements

Themes Across Arenas

• Cost, Speed, and Scale of Research

• Complexity: What data is obtained by whom? How?

• Institutional Boundaries of Multi-Disciplinary, Multi-Institutional, Local-Global Research

• Democratization of Research-Centered Computational Networks

Institutional Challenges

Centralized Review

Standard Principles

Local Resources, Tools

Distributed Review and Accountability

Distributed Collaborations (Beyond Institution)

Shared Tools

Distributed Data

Citizen Scientists

The Adequacy of the Ethical Regime: Reviews of e-Research

The Rise of Distributed Problem Solving

Need for Social Accountability of e-Research

Approaches to Distributed Accountability

- Proposals Online

- Open Methods

Risks

Complement Current Institutional Arrangements

What Can Be Done? A Proposal

A Case: Politics of Open Science

Digitization and Innovation in Research

Ethical Arenas

Adequacy of the Current Ethics Regime

What Can Be Done?

Big Impact

Global Networks: Open Methods