Affordances-driven ethics for research on mobile instant messaging: Notes from the Global South

Author:

Herrada Hidalgo Nadia12ORCID,Santos Marcelo34ORCID,Barbosa Sérgio5

Affiliation:

1. Escuela de Periodismo, Facultad de Arquitectura, Arte, Diseño y Comunicación, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile

2. Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (CIIR), Chile

3. Universidad Diego Portales, Chile

4. Center for the Study of Media, Public Opinion and Politics in Chile (MEPOP), Chile

5. Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal

Abstract

Mobile instant messaging (MIM) applications have received increasing attention from social science researchers lately. Despite the high frequency of its use for multiple purposes, research in such environments entails specific ethical challenges, more familiar for researchers from the Global South, where MIMs have become an important part of the media landscape for a decade or so. This article discusses the ethical dilemmas that emerged in two distinct cases where authors were part of the research teams, concluding that current frameworks fall short in the sociotechnical dimension. To address this, we complement the casuistic-heuristic model with an affordances-driven approach, which contemplates the agency of the group members within the interactive processes that take place in digital environments and the possibilities and constraints that platforms' features offer during the research process.

Funder

Universidad Andrés Bello

Fondo de Financiamiento de Centros de Investigación en Áreas Prioritarias

Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Publisher

SAGE Publications

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