Internet research tools and methods - a continuous challenge in the activity of the ethics and deontology commissions
"Ethics and Deontology" Journal,
Vol. 2 No. 01 (2022): "Ethics and Deontology" Journal
Abstract
The proper functioning of a society is based on the existence of moral and ethical norms to guide social behavior. For this reason, different branches of ethics developed to study the human behavior, the questions we need to ask when making decisions and the meaning of ethical values and their role in justifying a decision and guiding our professional activity.
Just as research is vital to the development of society and the understanding of social trends, everyday problems and needs, it seems that research must exist only in the frames of ethics so as to provide objective knowledge and not to harm. However, our rapprochement to the internet in the last 20 years raised new challenges for research ethics, such as: demonstrating the veracity of information without compromising the participants’ identities, defining a community in the online space, etc.
In the light of these events, our study focuses on the value of ethical behavior in research, examines the contemporary ethical challenges in research, and proposes solutions to address them. For this, we analyze researchers’ behavior online, and its implications in treating the research subjects, defining and choosing the ethical methods to approach them, and the capacity to guarantee the destruction of data. We end this study with a proposal for an ethical model of decision-making in research based on a deontological approach.
Keywords
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References
Alegria Carreira, F., do Amparo Guedes, M. (2008). Can we teach ethics and professional deontology? An empirical study regarding the Accounting and Finance degree. Social Responsibility Journal, Vol. 4, no. 1/2, 89-103.
Bix, B. (2004). Natural law: the modern tradition. In (Coleman Jules, Einar Himma Kenneth, Shapiro Scott, The Oxford handbook of jurisprudence and philosophy of law (pp. 61-103). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Buchanan, E., Ess, C. (2008). Internet research ethics: the field and its critical issues. In Einar Himma Kenneth, Tavani Herman (eds.), The handbook of information computer ethics (pp. 273-287). John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Buchanan, E., Zimmer, M. (2021). Internet ethics. In Zalta E. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of philosophy. New York: Metaphisica Lab, Stanford University.
Crider, K., Jeffrey, M. (2013). Do state ethics commissions reduce political corruption? An exploratory investigation. UC Irvine Law Review, vol.3, no.3, 717-733.
Gregory, I. (2003). Ethics in research. New York: Continuum.
Gavrilov, D. (2020). Positivism- from weaknesses to new openings. Revista Universitara de Sociologie, vol. XVI, no.1, 151-166.
Lomborg, S. (2012). Personal internet archives and ethics. Research Ethics, vol. 9, no. 1, 20-31.
Milne, G., Culnan, M. (2004). Strategies for reducing online privacy risks: why consumers read (or don't read) online privacy notices. Journal of Interactive Marketing, vol. 18, no. 3, 15-29.
Murphy, M. (2019). The natural law tradition in ethics. in Zalta, E. (ed.) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Available at: plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-law-ethics/
Park Yoon, S., Konge, L., Artino, A. (2020). The positivism paradigm of research. Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges,vol. 95, no. 5, 690-694.
Richard, K. (2013). Social science research ethics: historical and philosophical issues. In Strohm Kitchener K., Kitchener R., The handbook of social research etics (pp. 5-22). Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.
Shrader-Frechette, K. (1994). Ethics of Scientific Research. London: Rowman & Littlefield.
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Taft, S., White, J. (2007). Ethics education: using inductive reasoning to develop individual, group, organizational, and global perspectives. Journal of Management Education, vol. 31, no. 5, 614-646.