Ethics for studying online sociotechnical systems in a big data world

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn 2015-January, Issue , 2015, Pages 289-292

  Fiesler, Casey ^a   Young, Alyson ^b   Peyton, Tamara ^c   Bruckman, Amy S ^a,d   Gray, Mary ^e   Hancock, Jeff ^f   Lutters, Wayne ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Baltimore County   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; DATA SCIENCE; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DIGITAL RESEARCHES; ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS; GENERAL PUBLICS; GUIDING PRINCIPLES; MARKET RESEARCHES; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84939128981     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2685553.2685558     Document Type: Conference Paper

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