Dear AoIRists, On behalf of the AoIR Ethics Working Group and our colleagues contributing to two ethics roundtables this coming week in Tartu - I'm very pleased to invite scholars and researchers to the roundtables to engage in dialogue on the specific ethical challenges in your work. This is to say: the roundtables are structured not only to provide important examples of and reflection on contemporary research ethics challenges - please see the panel titles and participants, below: as well, additional time (15 minutes) in each roundtable will be devoted to one-on-one (or one-on-several, depending on interest) discussion and reflection between each roundtable presenter and researchers / scholars who are confronting the same or very similar challenges. So, for example, you may be interested in - Stine Lomborg (University of Copenhagen). Open data repositories: what are the Stakes for users’ whose data are re-purposed? This includes discussions of data activism and citizenship in relation to open data. - not only for the sake of Stine's presentation and experience, but also because you would like to talk with her about closely similar issues you're facing in your own project. Following the initial presentations (35 / 40 minutes) and open Q&A (15 minutes), Stine as well as the other presenters will move into the room for specific conversations on such shared issues, concerns, etc. Our concluding plenary wrap-up (15 minutes) will bring the results of the conversations to the larger group for final comment and discussion. Our hope is thus not only to offer potentially helpful resources and example resolutions of contemporary ethical challenges - but also to gain from attendees a more complete understanding of the ethical concerns confronting the AoIR research communities. (All of which is part of our larger remit to identify topics, issues, etc. that have emerged over the past few years that are not addressed either fully or in part in the previous guidelines issued by AoIR, but that thereby require more contemporary attention, reflection, and possible resolution.) At the same time, it has been clear throughout the development of the first (2002) and second (2012) guidelines that such shared dialogue and reflection are critical to our work on IRE: alongside new resources and insights - such dialogues are essential to the kinds of careful reflection and trust requisite to our community-based, process-oriented approach to ethics. And especially as our research projects and ethical challenges implicate participants from multiple disciplines and cultures, we hope that these dialogues will also improve our understanding of how to create and inspire such safe places. Especially if you and/or your colleagues are confronting such pressing ethical concerns or issues in your research, we warmly invite you to attend the relevant roundtable(s) and participate in these dialogues. My thanks in advance to all of the roundtable presenters who have kindly agreed to make themselves available in these ways to us. Safe travels and all best, - charles Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/> Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess@media.uio.no == Roundtable 1 – Ethical Issues in Big Data IRE 19/Oct/2017: 2:00pm-3:30pm · Location: Dorpat - Struve II * Stine Lomborg (University of Copenhagen). Open data repositories: what are the Stakes for users’ whose data are repurposed? This includes discussions of data activism and citizenship in relation to open data. * Aline Shakti Franzke (Utrecht Data School). Digital and analogue tools for enabling constructive but slow reflection processes; the contextual nature of such an approach and the lessons and limits we have learned. * Anja Bechmann (Aarhus University). The ethical challenges in the analytical phase of data collection, including questions of sharing data across different countries as defining different legal and ethical guidelines; ethical issues in algorithms and AI models, e.g., do we anonymize data when it is provided to machines as we do when providing data to humans in qualitative approaches? * Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social * Sciences, Cologne, Germany). How can we promote internet data sharing to meet ethical obligations regarding research transparency and quality vis-à-vis the problematic origins of much of the data currently used in internet research? (e.g. internet of things)? * Michael Zimmer (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). Ethical issues in data sharing, data transparency; frameworks for ethical decision-making, including ethics of care; incorporating Nissenbaum's theory of privacy as contextual integrity. Roundtable 2 – Specific Issues, Larger Questions 20/Oct/2017: 2:00pm-3:30pm · Location: Dorpat - Struve II * Elisabetta Locatelli (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy). The ethical challenges of research on breastfeeding images on Instagram. * Stine Gotved (IT-University, Copenhagen, Denmark). The ethical dimensions surrounding the extra layers of sensitivity needed when dealing with digital aspects of physical death. * Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Gothenburg University, Sweden). The ethical sensitivities for dealing with how communities use social media as resources for coping with the death of a loved one. * Ane Kathrine Gammelby (Aarhus University, Denmark). Qualitative digital research, focusing on online health communities, informed consent, and balancing the protection of vulnerable individuals/communities with research transparency and rich qualitative examples. Meta-issues: * Katrin Tildenberg (Tallin University, Estonia; Aarhus University, Denmark). Teaching ethics: experiences, philosophies and approaches, and invitation for further suggestions and comments from participants. * Ben Zevenbergen (Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, New Jersey, USA; Oxford Internet Institute, UK). How to construct meaningful cross-disciplinary discussions about Internet technology and research] * Carsten Wilhelm (Center for Research on Economy, Society, Arts and Technology [SFSIC] University of Haute Alsace, France). The “French point of view” on internet research ethics, based on SFSIC’s work.