Accounting for privacy in citizen science: Ethical research in a context of openness

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

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 2124-2136

  Bowser, Anne ^a   Shilton, Katie ^b   Preece, Jennifer ^b   Warrick, Elizabeth ^b  

^a Kennan Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Contextual integrity; Crowdsourcing; Digital volunteers; Open data; Privacy; Research ethics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; CROWDSOURCING; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

CITIZEN SCIENCE; CONTEXTUAL INTEGRITIES; DIGITAL VOLUNTEERS; OPEN DATUM; RESEARCH ETHICS;

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 85014289682     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2998181.2998305     Document Type: Conference Paper

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