ethics of care rooted in feminist and relational ethics challenging traditional ‘masculine’ methods without comprising the rigor context-specific and non-universal care is not neutral, intersectional identities and inequalities focus on situated knowledge, interdependence and vulnerability witnessing injustice as a responsibility, engaging from a position of power disowning the power and allowing for genuine relational care who carries the burden not soft or sentimental, but responsive and reflexive care is embedded in histories of harm dominant power forces don’t disappear when we enter the field grounded in context, care in one situation may not be care in another accountable to people and systems you work within - a responsibility to the communities what are we failing to question move towards inconvenience care begins by recognising how power and ethics questions are embedded in systems and infrastructures be willing to change if it starts to cause harm responsibility and transformation is the research effective if nothing changes? are participants’ voices mediated, abstracted or aestheticized are they framing the research too, what is the long-term implication care as recognition, reciprocity and responsibility if you hold information on someone’s life you’re now in continuous relationship with them, they’re a part of you moving forward and them you reflect on how we are trained to claim knowledge the divide between the one who knows and about whom is known who gets to set the terms of what is reliable, vigorous, academic data what does research look like through more relational and plural approaches even with no direct participants you are still accountable to the people you’re thinking about/talking about/excluding knowledge lineage Masters Module - Design for Social Change my own design enquiry into electronic health records for informed consent for HRT as harm reduction and prioritising situated knowledges of trans experience - may link here later Masters Module - Methods for Equitable Technology Development Resources Intersections of Care Guidelines ...
data extractivism eg as applies to less-than-ethical research with eg indigenous communities but also as applies to users of Web 2.0 services and platforms, digital forms of data, hidden data flows and data exhaust, the ‘extraction imperative’ that sees wasted opportunity in possibilities for data collection to be sold on to train predictive models (AI ethics) users forcibly becoming data subjects more data is extracted than what is needed for the service beyond online life - data from daily experience, mics in products serving the business model and corporate interest ...