Some ethical aspects of collecting and analysing interactional and ethnographic data
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
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| Description | The thesis that underlies this talk is that research ethics, as understood by ethical committees, review boards, and lawyers, to a large extent operates in the "medical research" mode, which may result in recommendations and requirements that are not fully compatible with research on groups and collectives, as done in the social sciences. The talk, based on the author's experience of working on three large research projects grounded in conversation analysis and ethnography (in all three cases non-interventionist projects) focuses on selected aspects of ethics before data collection, during data collection and processing, and during data analysis and publishing. It problematizes the individualistic understanding of research ethics and the notion of "naturally-occurring data", and outlines some areas that are not yet fully covered by the literature. |