This $400,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of an ethical framework to guide research on online communities. Awarded to the Regents of the University of Minnesota under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the three-year project will engage representatives from five online communities to create actionable guidelines.
A team of researchers will follow a participatory process with community members and organizers to establish priorities and address potential harms. An initial framework will be refined through workshops and disseminated to inform future research. Implementation activities include curricular integration to train computing professionals, terms of research pages for sites, and guidance for review boards. Outcomes will be assessed through iterative validation with advisors to repair breaches, acknowledge impacts, and honor community voices in ethical investigations of online spaces.
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