Marina Jirotka
Biographic Data
| ID | 4218914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marina Jirotka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marina |
| FAMILY NAME | Jirotka |
| SIGNATURE | JIROTKA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6088-3955 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Digitally Un/Free
This article offers an original contribution to the crucial question of how digital media impacts children and young people’s everyday lives. Focus groups with young people aged 11–21 years, and interviews with teachers in schools in England revealed digital media can be a source of contention between young people and their parents or carers. Our research revealed that children and young people have a paradoxical relationship with the Internet be…
‘ Co‐Production Is Caring ’
BACKGROUND: While co-production is increasingly emphasised in youth mental health research, few studies have explored how young people themselves conceptualise and evaluate responsible and dialogic co-production. Understanding young people's perspectives is essential to ensure that participation is meaningful and protective, rather than tokenistic or exploitative. This paper offers a retrospective reflection on a 3-year UK youth mental health pro…
Variable Autonomy through Responsible Robotics
Physically embodied artificial agents, or robots, are being incorporated into various practical and social contexts, from self-driving cars for personal transportation to assistive robotics in social care. To enable these systems to better perform under changing conditions, designers have proposed to endow robots with varying degrees of autonomous capabilities and the capacity to move between them—an approach known as variable autonomy. Researche…
On self-driving cars and its (broken?) promises. A case study analysis of the German Act on Autonomous Driving
Automotive companies are investing in automated vehicles, conducting real world testing, and many countries are setting the pre-conditions for being the first to receive the benefits from this technology. In this study, we conducted a content analysis of the German Act on Autonomous Driving (2021) – one of the most advanced regulatory frameworks on driverless vehicles - to evaluate the role of regulation in achieving three socially desirable prom…
Voice from the Beehive
Societal trust in research and innovation is predicated on factors such as governance, safety, and responsible development. These are often thought of as regulatory matters, but regulation is not well-adapted to fast-moving technologies, nor to operate at the granular level of projects or small companies. Anticipatory governance, potentially in the form of responsible innovation (RI), can help to provide this adaptivity and granularity. However, …
Human involvement in autonomous decision-making systems. Lessons learned from three case studies in aviation, social care and road vehicles
This paper draws on three case studies to examine some of the challenges and tensions involved in the use of Autonomous Decision-Making Systems (ADMS). In particular, the paper highlights: (i) challenges around the shifting “locale” of the decision, and the associated consequences for stakeholders; (ii) potential implications for stakeholders from regulation such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); (iii) the different values that st…
TrustScapes
This paper presents a new methodological approach, TrustScapes, an open access tool designed to identify and visualise stakeholders' concerns and policy recommendations on data protection, algorithmic bias, and online safety for a fairer and more trustworthy online world. We first describe how the tool was co-created with young people and other stakeholders through a series of workshops. We then present two sets of TrustScapes focus groups to ill…
Forecasting the governance of harmful social media communications
Social media exhibits the core characteristics of emergent technologies. It is disruptive of established ways of organising social relations, is evolving at an exponential pace and its effects, including the production of new ‘goods’ and ‘bads’, are highly uncertain. Interest in understanding these effects has intensified in the context of fears over so-called ‘digital wildfire’, a policy construct referring to rapid propagation of harmful commun…
The role of civil society organisations in European responsible research and innovation
EC policy reveals a strong conviction that CSO’s main function in EU-funded research and innovation projects is to take care of the ‘societal perspective’, which would not be adequately represented otherwise. With this, CSOs are supposed to be the main advocates of RRI in project consortia and are supported by all kinds of EC policy measures to fulfil this role. This conviction is not only problematic due to definition problems concerning CSO as …
Interaction and Transformation on Social Media
The increasing popularity of social media platforms creates new digital social networks in which individuals can interact and share information, news, and opinion. The use of these technologies appears to have the capacity to transform current social configurations and relations, not least within the public and civic spheres. Within the social sciences, much emphasis has been placed on conceptualizing social media's role in modern society and the…
Authority as an Interactional Achievement
Digitizing Sacks? Approaching social media as data
During the course of this article, we explore ethnomethodological principles in relation to approaching social media as data. More specifically, we consider the extent to which the work of Harvey Sacks and his rich intellectual legacy might inform this nascent field of empirical inquiry. This exploration is realised in the context of interdisciplinary research at the interface of social and computational science. Drawing from an extensive range o…
Digital wildfires
The last 5--10 years have seen a massive rise in the popularity of social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr etc. These platforms enable users to post and share their own content instantly, meaning that material can be seen by multiple others in a short period of time. The growing use of social media has been accompanied by concerns that these platforms enable the rapid and global spread of harmful content. A report by the World Ec…
Embedded Reference
Audiovisual technologies can enable informal communication akin to face-to-face interaction. However, they prove less successful when deployed to support work and organizational activities. This is, in part, due to the limited ways such technologies provide access to the materials, objects, documents, and the like that are critical for supporting work activities as they emerge and unfold. What is often neglected in these new technologies is a con…
Supporting Scientific Collaboration
Interpreting Digital Images Beyond Just the Visual
The scholarly study of medieval music manuscripts has traditionally required that musicologists travel to libraries and museums where the artefacts of interest, the complete manuscript or fragments of manuscripts, are physically held. However, with the introduction of digital image archives these scholars now have the ability to conduct much of their research through both the inspection and manipulation of digital images. When digital images are …
Transforming Scholarly Practice
From data archive to ethical labyrinth
Researchers in the social sciences are increasingly encouraged or obliged to deposit data in digital archives for greater transparency of research or for secondary use by other researchers. However, digital archives raise many ethical challenges at the institutional, disciplinary and personal level, and researchers can find themselves caught between conflicting requirements. This article considers the ethical challenges of qualitative data in par…
Special Issue
Collaboration and Trust in Healthcare Innovation
Unpacking collaboration
On the social organisation of organisations
From data archive to ethical labyrinth
Researchers in the social sciences are increasingly encouraged or obliged to deposit data in digital archives for greater transparency of research or for secondary use by other researchers. However, digital archives raise many ethical challenges at the institutional, disciplinary and personal level, and researchers can find themselves caught between conflicting requirements. This article considers the ethical challenges of qualitative data in par…
Digitizing Sacks? Approaching social media as data
During the course of this article, we explore ethnomethodological principles in relation to approaching social media as data. More specifically, we consider the extent to which the work of Harvey Sacks and his rich intellectual legacy might inform this nascent field of empirical inquiry. This exploration is realised in the context of interdisciplinary research at the interface of social and computational science. Drawing from an extensive range o…
Embedded Reference
Audiovisual technologies can enable informal communication akin to face-to-face interaction. However, they prove less successful when deployed to support work and organizational activities. This is, in part, due to the limited ways such technologies provide access to the materials, objects, documents, and the like that are critical for supporting work activities as they emerge and unfold. What is often neglected in these new technologies is a con…
Forecasting the governance of harmful social media communications
Social media exhibits the core characteristics of emergent technologies. It is disruptive of established ways of organising social relations, is evolving at an exponential pace and its effects, including the production of new ‘goods’ and ‘bads’, are highly uncertain. Interest in understanding these effects has intensified in the context of fears over so-called ‘digital wildfire’, a policy construct referring to rapid propagation of harmful commun…
TrustScapes
This paper presents a new methodological approach, TrustScapes, an open access tool designed to identify and visualise stakeholders' concerns and policy recommendations on data protection, algorithmic bias, and online safety for a fairer and more trustworthy online world. We first describe how the tool was co-created with young people and other stakeholders through a series of workshops. We then present two sets of TrustScapes focus groups to ill…
Interaction and Transformation on Social Media
The increasing popularity of social media platforms creates new digital social networks in which individuals can interact and share information, news, and opinion. The use of these technologies appears to have the capacity to transform current social configurations and relations, not least within the public and civic spheres. Within the social sciences, much emphasis has been placed on conceptualizing social media's role in modern society and the…
On the social organisation of organisations
Unpacking collaboration
Collaboration and Trust in Healthcare Innovation
Special Issue
From data archive to ethical labyrinth
Researchers in the social sciences are increasingly encouraged or obliged to deposit data in digital archives for greater transparency of research or for secondary use by other researchers. However, digital archives raise many ethical challenges at the institutional, disciplinary and personal level, and researchers can find themselves caught between conflicting requirements. This article considers the ethical challenges of qualitative data in par…
Transforming Scholarly Practice
Interpreting Digital Images Beyond Just the Visual
The scholarly study of medieval music manuscripts has traditionally required that musicologists travel to libraries and museums where the artefacts of interest, the complete manuscript or fragments of manuscripts, are physically held. However, with the introduction of digital image archives these scholars now have the ability to conduct much of their research through both the inspection and manipulation of digital images. When digital images are …
Supporting Scientific Collaboration
Digital wildfires
The last 5--10 years have seen a massive rise in the popularity of social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr etc. These platforms enable users to post and share their own content instantly, meaning that material can be seen by multiple others in a short period of time. The growing use of social media has been accompanied by concerns that these platforms enable the rapid and global spread of harmful content. A report by the World Ec…
Embedded Reference
Audiovisual technologies can enable informal communication akin to face-to-face interaction. However, they prove less successful when deployed to support work and organizational activities. This is, in part, due to the limited ways such technologies provide access to the materials, objects, documents, and the like that are critical for supporting work activities as they emerge and unfold. What is often neglected in these new technologies is a con…
Authority as an Interactional Achievement
Digitizing Sacks? Approaching social media as data
During the course of this article, we explore ethnomethodological principles in relation to approaching social media as data. More specifically, we consider the extent to which the work of Harvey Sacks and his rich intellectual legacy might inform this nascent field of empirical inquiry. This exploration is realised in the context of interdisciplinary research at the interface of social and computational science. Drawing from an extensive range o…
The role of civil society organisations in European responsible research and innovation
EC policy reveals a strong conviction that CSO’s main function in EU-funded research and innovation projects is to take care of the ‘societal perspective’, which would not be adequately represented otherwise. With this, CSOs are supposed to be the main advocates of RRI in project consortia and are supported by all kinds of EC policy measures to fulfil this role. This conviction is not only problematic due to definition problems concerning CSO as …
Interaction and Transformation on Social Media
The increasing popularity of social media platforms creates new digital social networks in which individuals can interact and share information, news, and opinion. The use of these technologies appears to have the capacity to transform current social configurations and relations, not least within the public and civic spheres. Within the social sciences, much emphasis has been placed on conceptualizing social media's role in modern society and the…
Forecasting the governance of harmful social media communications
Social media exhibits the core characteristics of emergent technologies. It is disruptive of established ways of organising social relations, is evolving at an exponential pace and its effects, including the production of new ‘goods’ and ‘bads’, are highly uncertain. Interest in understanding these effects has intensified in the context of fears over so-called ‘digital wildfire’, a policy construct referring to rapid propagation of harmful commun…
Human involvement in autonomous decision-making systems. Lessons learned from three case studies in aviation, social care and road vehicles
This paper draws on three case studies to examine some of the challenges and tensions involved in the use of Autonomous Decision-Making Systems (ADMS). In particular, the paper highlights: (i) challenges around the shifting “locale” of the decision, and the associated consequences for stakeholders; (ii) potential implications for stakeholders from regulation such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); (iii) the different values that st…
TrustScapes
This paper presents a new methodological approach, TrustScapes, an open access tool designed to identify and visualise stakeholders' concerns and policy recommendations on data protection, algorithmic bias, and online safety for a fairer and more trustworthy online world. We first describe how the tool was co-created with young people and other stakeholders through a series of workshops. We then present two sets of TrustScapes focus groups to ill…
Variable Autonomy through Responsible Robotics
Physically embodied artificial agents, or robots, are being incorporated into various practical and social contexts, from self-driving cars for personal transportation to assistive robotics in social care. To enable these systems to better perform under changing conditions, designers have proposed to endow robots with varying degrees of autonomous capabilities and the capacity to move between them—an approach known as variable autonomy. Researche…
On self-driving cars and its (broken?) promises. A case study analysis of the German Act on Autonomous Driving
Automotive companies are investing in automated vehicles, conducting real world testing, and many countries are setting the pre-conditions for being the first to receive the benefits from this technology. In this study, we conducted a content analysis of the German Act on Autonomous Driving (2021) – one of the most advanced regulatory frameworks on driverless vehicles - to evaluate the role of regulation in achieving three socially desirable prom…
Voice from the Beehive
Societal trust in research and innovation is predicated on factors such as governance, safety, and responsible development. These are often thought of as regulatory matters, but regulation is not well-adapted to fast-moving technologies, nor to operate at the granular level of projects or small companies. Anticipatory governance, potentially in the form of responsible innovation (RI), can help to provide this adaptivity and granularity. However, …
Digitally Un/Free
This article offers an original contribution to the crucial question of how digital media impacts children and young people’s everyday lives. Focus groups with young people aged 11–21 years, and interviews with teachers in schools in England revealed digital media can be a source of contention between young people and their parents or carers. Our research revealed that children and young people have a paradoxical relationship with the Internet be…
‘ Co‐Production Is Caring ’
BACKGROUND: While co-production is increasingly emphasised in youth mental health research, few studies have explored how young people themselves conceptualise and evaluate responsible and dialogic co-production. Understanding young people's perspectives is essential to ensure that participation is meaningful and protective, rather than tokenistic or exploitative. This paper offers a retrospective reflection on a 3-year UK youth mental health pro…
Computer Science (17 works) · Engineering (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Engineering ethics (8 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Work (physics (7 works) · Knowledge management (6 works)