"Can We Really Show This"?: Ethics, Representation and Social Justice in Sensitive Digital Space

Maron, Deborah; Berry, Dorothy; Payton, Fay Cobb; Lakin, Samantha; White, Erin

doi:10.1109/jcdl.2017.7991626

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“…As scholars meet with people in formal settings to discuss their past experiences, they draw on a large and growing body of support to guide them in their practices, emphasizing care, the right of withdrawal, and the cultivation of meaningful community relationships [18]. Digital historians have explored the impact of making material accessible online, both through panel discussions and scholarship as well as through tool development [28]. The Mukurtu Content Management System, in particular, is designed around the cultural frameworks of indigenous peoples.…”

Section: Ethical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

We Could, but Should We?

Lin

Milligan

Oard

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

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We live in an era in which the ways that we can make sense of our past are evolving as more artifacts from that past become digital. At the same time, the responsibilities of traditional gatekeepers who have negotiated the ethics of historical data collection and use, such as librarians and archivists, are increasingly being sidelined by the system builders who decide whether and how to provide access to historical digital collections, often without sufficient reflection on the ethical issues at hand. It is our aim to better prepare system builders to grapple with these issues. This paper focuses discussions around one such digital collection from the dawn of the web, asking what sorts of analyses can and should be conducted on archival copies of the GeoCities web hosting platform that dates to 1994.

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Section: Ethical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%