Ethics in sensitive or tricky contexts

In contexts where the company or institution’s ethical guidelines seem ‘off base,’ or even counterintuitive, how do ethical researchers make choices?

Fabrication as Ethical Practice 2023 Masterclass

References used in a masterclass on Ethical Fabrication as a method for privacy and data protection

another fabulous summer school on digital ethnography

Another Fabulous Summer SchoolDigital Ethnography, but also some public sphere fieldwork with the controversial Boston Dynamics Spot Robot Annette MarkhamNext week, I'll facilitate the Digital Ethnography Research Centre's Summer School with Larissa Hjorth....
another fabulous summer school on digital ethnography

another fabulous summer school on digital ethnography

Another Fabulous Summer SchoolDigital Ethnography, but also some public sphere fieldwork with the controversial Boston Dynamics Spot Robot Annette MarkhamNext week, I'll facilitate the Digital Ethnography Research Centre's Summer School with Larissa Hjorth....

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Situational Mapping

Situational Mapping

Situational Mapping fosters a greater sensitivity to elements influencing fieldwork, including the researcher’s position, movement, and connections.

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Annette Markham

Bio

Annette Markham is Chair Professor of Media Literacy and Public Engagement in the department of Media and Culture at Utrecht University, Netherlands. She holds a PhD in organizational theory (Purdue University, 1997), with special emphasis on interpretive qualitative methods. She has been researching the impact of digitalization on identity and organizing practices since 1995 and now holds specializations in the lived experience of human/machine interactions, impact of datafication and algorithmic logics on social practices, and critical approaches to digital and algorithmic identity. She also studies research methodologies to devise ethical models for speculative, mixed-method, ethnographic, and multi-entity research design. Methods specializations include guided digital autoethnography, critical pedagogy, arts-based interventions, citizen social science, digital and data literacy through critical pedagogy, and digital ethnography.

Annette co- founded and directed the international Masters degree program in Digital Living at Aarhus University from 2013-2020 and was co-director of Aarhus University's Digital Living Research Centre.  She created and directed the Future Making Research Consortium, a collaboratory to bring together scholars, artists, and activists, particularly early career researchers, to study the intersection of digital technology, ways of being in the world, and future possible meanings, practices, and social structures. She regularly hosts post-graduate workshops, an annual Skagen Institute Conference on Transgressive Methods, PhD summer schools, and special interest seminars and symposia in the area of digital culture, ethical decision making in automated and algorithmic society, citizen social science research methods, and participatory models for scholarly activism. Her writing can be found in a range of international journals, books, and edited collections. Annette holds honorary adjunct professor posts at Aarhus University (in Information Studies) and RMIT University (in Media & Communication). Access various publications, note recent or upcoming talks, or see Annette Markham's full CV.

To contact Annette directly, please send email to amarkham {at] gmail [dot} com. Also on Mastodon