FABRICATION AS ETHICAL PRACTICE Qualitative inquiry in ambiguous Internet contexts
FABRICATION AS ETHICAL PRACTICE Qualitative inquiry in ambiguous Internet contexts
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10.1080/1369118x.2011.641993
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
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4.2
通讯作者：
Markham, Annette
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作者：
Markham, Annette
本文重点介绍了在互联网为媒介的社会背景的研究中保护隐私的创新方法。传统的通过隐藏或匿名化数据来保护隐私的方法不再适用于社会研究人员需要在日益公开、可存档、可搜索和可追溯的空间中设计研究、管理数据和构建研究报告的情况。在这样的研究环境中，很少有办法充分掩盖有关场地和被研究者的细节。在隐私保护不稳定的情况下，一种实用的数据表示方法是捏造，涉及创造性的，将原始数据转换为复合账户或代表性交互。本文追溯了一些限制这种创造性的道德解决方案的历史趋势，强调研究人员有义务保护研究参与者的隐私，在介导的研究背景下，并提供了一个介绍性的框架，重新考虑如何作出基于案例的决定，以更好地保护参与者的利益的情况下，脆弱性或潜在的伤害是不容易确定的。
This article focuses on innovative methods for protecting privacy in research of Internet-mediated social contexts. Traditional methods for protecting privacy by hiding or anonymizing data no longer suffice in situations where social researchers need to design studies, manage data, and build research reports in increasingly public, archivable, searchable, and traceable spaces. In such research environments, there are few means of adequately disguising details about the venue and the persons being studied. One practical method of data representation in contexts in which privacy protection is unstable is fabrication, involving creative, bricolage-style transfiguration of original data into composite accounts or representational interactions. This article traces some of the historical trends that have restricted such creative ethical solutions; emphasizes a researcher's obligation to protect research participants' privacy in mediated research contexts; and offers an introductory framework for reconsidering how to make case-based decisions to better protect the interests of participants in situations where vulnerability or potential harm is not easily determined.