Community-Engaged Design and Implementation of a Framework for Ethical Online Communities Research

该奖项支持一个研究团队，他们将与五个代表性在线社区的成员和组织者合作，创建一个道德框架，以指导未来的在线空间研究。该项目的总体目标是修复和防止道德违规行为，并以尊重在线社区成员和组织者的优先事项和声音的方式承认和减轻未来调查的潜在社区层面危害。为了实现这一目标，该团队将实施他们的框架，为各种利益相关者创建可操作的指导方针，包括其他研究人员，IRB和道德委员会，在线社区和教育机构。该框架还将用于通过课程整合培训下一代计算专业人员，帮助在线社区为其网站开发“研究条款”页面，研究小组将遵循一个三阶段的过程，开发、验证和实施一个新的框架，以指导在线社区的研究。第一阶段将通过采用参与式和社区参与的方法来创建一个初始框架，以集中几个关键在线社区（Linux，Wikipedia，InTheRooms，CaringBridge和r/EDAnonymous）的成员和组织者的声音，作为不同社区结构，目的和优先事项的代表性案例。在第二阶段，研究人员将通过与四个最相关的研究社区的研究人员举办研讨会来完善和传播初始框架，并根据其描述性，修辞性，推理性和应用能力来评估框架。在最后一个阶段，该小组将集中精力以上段所述的各种方式实施其新框架。在每个阶段，成果将通过与在线社区成员和组织者以及独立的伦理专家咨询委员会的迭代过程进行评估和改进。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This award supports a team of researchers who will work with members and organizers of five representative online communities to create an ethical framework to guide future research on online spaces. The overarching goal of the project is to repair and prevent ethical breaches, and to acknowledge and mitigate potential community-level harms of future investigations in a way that honors the priorities and voices of members and organizers of online communities. To work towards this goal, the team will implement their framework to create actionable guidelines for a variety of stakeholders, including other researchers, IRBs and ethics boards, online communities, and educational institutions The framework will also be used to train the next generation of computing professionals through curricular integration, to help online communities to develop "Terms of Research'' pages for their sites, and to inform future research through dissemination to researchers and university ethics review boards.The research team will follow a three-phase process for the development, validation, and implementation of a new framework for guiding research on online communities. The first phase will create an initial framework by employing participatory and community-engaged approaches to center the voices of members and organizers of several critical online communities (Linux, Wikipedia, InTheRooms, CaringBridge, and r/EDAnonymous) as representative cases of diverse community structures, purposes, and priorities. In phase two, the investigators will refine and disseminate the initial framework through workshops with researchers in four most relevant research communities and assess the framework based on its descriptive, rhetorical, inferential, and application power. In the last phase, the team will focus on implementing their new framework in a variety of ways indicated in the previous paragraph. In each phase, outcomes will be assessed and refined through an iterative process with online community members and organizers and by an independent advisory committee of ethics experts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.