Collaboration Ethics

In our team, we collaborate in various ways with each other in ways that may or may not fit traditional forms of collaboration. The ethics of our research collaboration is part of our research practice. This means, we continuously reflect on how to respect the people we work with including team members and others, be responsible and accountable in our research practice and in the outputs of our research.

This page aims to be a collection space for resources in helping us develop this practice. Our collaboration ethics will be reflected in our Code of Conduct (WIP) and will evolve as our research and our team changes.

These are some articles that may help shape a discussion on the topic:

• Barabas, Chelsea, Colin Doyle, Jb Rubinovitz, and Karthik Dinakar. “Studying up: Reorienting the Study of Algorithmic Fairness around Issues of Power.” In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 167–76. Barcelona Spain: ACM, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3351095.3372859.

• Chakravartty, Paula, Rachel Kuo, Victoria Grubbs, and Charlton McIlwain. “#CommunicationSoWhite.” Journal of Communication 68, no. 2 (April 1, 2018): 254–66. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqy003.

• George-Walker, Linda De, Catherine H Arden, and Patrick Alan Danaher. “Towards Some Answers to the Questions of Ethics in Collaborative Research,” n.d.

• Haviland, Carol Peterson, and Joan A. Mullin, eds. Who Owns This Text?: Plagiarism, Authorship, and Disciplinary Cultures. Utah State University Press, 2008. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgn56.

• Young, Meg, Lassana Magassa, and Batya Friedman. “Toward Inclusive Tech Policy Design: A Method for Underrepresented Voices to Strengthen Tech Policy Documents.” Ethics and Information Technology 21, no. 2 (June 2019): 89–103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-019-09497-z.