Ethical Reflexivity, Care, and Slippery Data

Lessons From Working With the Mass Observation Project

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ID2392313
AutoresCorine Van Emmerik (0000-0002-0138-3918, Goldsmiths University of London, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen29
Número3
Páginas758-766
Fecha de publicación2024-09-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Research Online (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/13607804231164486
OpenAlexW4384198454
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas18

As part of a research project on the lived and everyday temporal experiences of British people in the Covid-19 pandemic, a Mass Observation directive was commissioned that asked volunteers about their changing rhythms, feelings, and imagined futures. The responses were rich and raw. Some of these reflections, however, expressed a risk of harm that raised ethical issues that were not anticipated beforehand. These issues were complicated by the interstitial character of the data, being not primary and not quite secondary. This Sociology in Action paper reflects on one diary that expressed risk of harm to think through the slipperiness of the data as well as the ethical responsibility researchers have towards the well-being of participants and that of their own. I suggest a proactive ethical framework for such interstitial data that includes an ethics of care towards the participants and stimulates ethical reflexivity that prepares the researcher for potential emotional ties and investments

Directive · Ethics of care · Feeling · Harm · Political science · Public relations · Reflexivity · Research ethics · Social science · Sociology · Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection · Data Analysis and Archiving · Global Cancer Incidence and Screening · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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