[Commlist] Call for Contributors - Bloomsbury Handbook of Online Research Ethics

Call for Contributors
*Bloomsbury Handbook of Online Research Ethics*
Deadline for Abstracts - 15th January 2022

Bloomsbury is pleased to announce the development of a very exciting new 
project: The Handbook of Online Research Ethics.

It is nearly 20 years since the launch of the first specialist ethics 
guidelines for Internet research and subsequent publication of 
specialist monographs and edited collections focused on the ethics of 
Internet and online research. During this time, the nature of our online 
lives and uses of digital media, as well as the technologies, 
infrastructures and business models that underpin them, has changed 
dramatically, presenting new and emerging questions, tensions, and 
challenges for researchers to confront.

Against this backdrop, we argue that now is the right moment to pause 
and reflect on the current state of the art: to examine what has become 
a mature field of scholarship, and to pose critical questions of ideas 
that may have become overly dominant in the field. For a collection 
that, importantly, seeks to move beyond familiar perspectives and seeks 
to draw together diverse voices and cases studies that can 
broaden/challenge/invigorate our discussions of online research ethics 
today.

This new collection aims to contribute to the online research ethics 
space in a few different ways. We want to examine and interrogate the 
current theories, practices, politics, and philosophies surrounding 
online research ethics. We want to question – and perhaps challenge - 
conventions in thinking that have perhaps become sedimented in writing 
on online research ethics. And we seek to explore new research 
directions, considering innovative methods and researchers’ ethical 
responses to these. We are particularly keen to broaden the discourse 
with globalization as a systemic theme throughout the handbook, such 
that we push readers to think through the implications of localized 
ethics vis-à-vis global perspectives.

We are therefore soliciting chapters (8-10,000 words) that explore new 
areas of online research ethics from a range of disciplinary 
perspectives and theoretical bases.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

  * Historical development of ideas in study of online research ethics
  * Ethical controversies and provocations
  * Global and transnational perspectives on online research ethics
    (challenges, issues, regulation, institutional responses,
    comparative case-studies)
  * Negotiating/surviving/responding to the commercialisation and
    platformisation of the web
  * Intimacy and managing research relationships (friending,
    unfriending, ending projects)
  * Big data research, AI, algorithmic culture
  * Ethical regulation and the law
  * Social Media - research ethics beyond Facebook and Twitter
  * Ethics of participatory, activist online research
  * Ecological considerations of AI methods
  * Social and communal perspectives on online ethics
  * Ethical considerations of data trusts
  * Ethics of augmented/mixed reality research (towards a research
    ethics for the study of the metaverse?)

*Editors:*
• Elizabeth Buchanan, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute.
• Natasha Whiteman, University of Westminster.

*Submission information: *
• Abstracts (approx. 300 words) + brief author(s) bio(s) should be sent 
to (n.whiteman /at/ westminster.ac.uk).
•**Abstract submission date: 15th January 2022.
• Final deadline for accepted chapters: 30th September 2022.

Whilst the cost of handbooks can sometimes be prohibitive for a wide 
readership, Bloomsbury are committed to making their handbooks 
accessible through pricing. A paperback version of the handbook will be 
published 12-18 months after the hardback.

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