Secondo fascicolo del 2023

INTRODUCTION Over Twenty Years of Internet Research Ethics: Key Concepts and Future Challenges by ELISABETTA LOCATELLI - ALINE SHAKTI FRANZKE - CHARLES M. ESS is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Good research practice faces both ethical and methodological challenges that cannot always be met at the same time. This is also true for the study of digital trace data and digital media. However, questions of Internet research ethics (IRE) have so far played a subordinate role in German media and communication studies, especially regarding quantitative methods...

This article focuses on the Italian music industry from the perspective of gender. The Italian music industry can be considered a male-dominated workplace within which women while working, experience gender discrimination. This article intends to answer the following research questions: (i) how women working in the music industry are perceived and ‘told’ in their professional context and (ii) which representations, sedimented in the male gaze, continue to circulate in our culture...

Recent research has problematised online harassment as a risk in social media research. Scholars have since tried to address this through protective mechanisms in research processes, above all in antagonistic spaces such as far-right online groupings. This paper addresses a comparatively little explored area: risk identification and research ethics in ambiguous digital spaces. It draws on an ethnographic case study of a climate change sceptical Facebook group that showed antagonistic tendencies in later stages of observation...

In this paper, we take stock of research being conducted and published in Canada in the past five years that engages with social media data to identify emerging and ongoing ethical challenges and ambiguities. Through examples drawn from the contemporary research landscape, we demonstrate that the ‘thorniness’ of social media research ethics stems from three main issues: 1) the evolution of existing platform and emergence of new platforms, introducing affordances that encourage personal disclosure in pervasive datafied environments; 2) new methods and tools that prioritize data access over research ethics; and 3) new topics of study that engage with sensitive data about vulnerable groups online...

The article combines the genre of the visual essay with written-textual contextualizations, to analyse the attempts to reconstruct the Estonian memorialscape through the removal of Soviet memorials in the second part of 2022. Theoretically grounded in a theory of discursive-material entanglement and assemblage theory, the article investigates these attempts to fixate history, but also the resistance they generate, by paying attention to the human contestations (mainly through a politics of mourning) but also the material resistance and the recalcitrance of historical traces, through everyday life’s desacralizing routines and novel infrastructures, and material decay and neglect...

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