Beyond the Belmont principles: Ethical challenges, practices, and beliefs in the online data research community

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

Volumn 27, Issue , 2016, Pages 941-953

  Vitak, Jessica ^a   Shilton, Katie ^a   Ashktorab, Zahra ^a  

^a College of Information Studies ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Academia; Big data; Ethics; Online data; Privacy; Researchers; Social computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATA PRIVACY; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SURVEYS;

ACADEMIA; ETHICS; ONLINE DATA; RESEARCHERS; SOCIAL COMPUTING;

BIG DATA;

EID: 84963568223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2818048.2820078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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