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Research Ethics in the Digital Age

Ethics for the Social Sciences and Humanities in Times of Mediatization and Digitization

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VI
  2. Introduction

    • Jana Fischer, Farina Madita Dobrick, Lutz M. Hagen
    Pages 1-4
  3. Keynotes as to Core Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
    2. What’s Responsible for the Retraction Boom?

      • Adam Marcus, Ivan Oransky
      Pages 23-28
    3. The Empowerment of Users: Rethinking Educational Practice Online

      • Pascal Marquet, Thomas Köhler
      Pages 69-86
  4. Developing Research Standards in a DigitalizedWorld

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
    2. Rural India in the Digital Age

      • Manushi
      Pages 95-99
    3. Ethical Issues in Collecting Data from Informant of the Field

      • Sandrine M. Sidze, Thomas Köhler, Joerg Szarzynski
      Pages 101-104
  5. Applying Research Ethicsto Different Digital Environments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
    2. Intersecting the Digital Maze. Considering Ethics in Cloud-Based Services’ Research

      • Daniel Kerpen, Matthias Dorgeist, Sascha Zantis
      Pages 143-152

About this book

The book discusses the multiple issues of a digital research ethic in its interdisciplinary diversity. Digitization and mediatization alter social behavior and cultural traditions, thereby generating new objects of study and new research questions for the social sciences and humanities. Furthermore, mediatization and digitization increase the data volume and accessibility of (quantitative) research and proliferate methodological opportunities for scientific analyses. Hence, they profoundly affect research practices in multiple ways. While consequences concerning the subjects, objects, and addressees of research in the social sciences and humanities have rarely been reflected upon, this reflection lies at the center of the book.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Media and Communication, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Farina Madita Dobrick, Jana Fischer, Lutz M. Hagen

About the editors

Farina Madita Dobrick and Jana Fischer are researchers at the Institute of Communication Studies at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.

Prof. Dr. Lutz Hagen is Director of the Institute for Communication Studies and Director of ZMS at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Research Ethics in the Digital Age

  • Book Subtitle: Ethics for the Social Sciences and Humanities in Times of Mediatization and Digitization

  • Editors: Farina Madita Dobrick, Jana Fischer, Lutz M. Hagen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-12909-5

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-12908-8Published: 19 December 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-12909-5Published: 08 December 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 163

  • Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Communication Studies, Sociology of Education, Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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