{"id":350,"date":"2021-10-22T10:33:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T14:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/?p=350"},"modified":"2021-10-22T10:33:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T14:33:09","slug":"digital-ethics-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/2021\/10\/22\/digital-ethics-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Ethics &#8211; Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on feedback to date, here is my refined perspective for consideration:<\/p>\n<p>Research Questions with an attempt to narrow the focus of my research:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;how do contemporary corporations define and approach the topic of digital ethics?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;what are the strengths and gaps of the current approach?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Methodology:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As there does not, to my understanding, exist a quantitative way to define and measure &#8220;digital ethics&#8221; a more <strong>qualitative<\/strong> methodology would be more beneficial to answer my research questions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Methods:<\/p>\n<p>To answer the first question of &#8220;how do contemporary corporations define and approach the topic of digital ethics?&#8221;, I propose to leverage the following methods:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Field study<\/strong> &#8211; one on one interviews with organizational leaders across multiple sectors with the goal to create a baseline of contemporary understanding of &#8220;digital ethics&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Case study<\/strong> &#8211; from the field study, identify one organization with more advanced thinking on &#8220;digital ethics&#8221; with the aim to understand in depth how this topic is defined and applied to operations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Literary study<\/strong> &#8211; review of existing academic writings on &#8220;digital ethics&#8221; within corporations to assimilate existing documented research beyond the field study and case study on this topic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To answer the second question, &#8220;what are the strengths and gaps of the current approach?&#8221; it will require my evaluation of the existing understanding of &#8220;digital ethics&#8221;. With that context, I propose leveraging the following methods:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Case study<\/strong> &#8211; evaluate one company or industries approach to an ethical topic to understand the success factors or pitfalls at such a nascent stage of issue development. Perhaps environmental ethics or worker health and safety? The intent would be to understand if there are applicable lessons to be learned from a comparable topic&#8217;s development arc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Analytical autoethnography<\/strong> &#8211; as my research topic is difficult to define and a developing field, I believe it will be beneficial for both critical evaluation of my research and future research on &#8220;digital ethics&#8221; to record the &#8220;why&#8221; of the choices I make as a researcher whether it be on data included and excluded in the research, how I came to certain conclusions and, more broadly, the decisions I took to tackle this ambiguous topic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on feedback to date, here is my refined perspective for consideration: Research Questions with an attempt to narrow the focus of my research: &#8220;how do contemporary corporations define and approach the topic of digital ethics?&#8221; &#8220;what are the strengths and gaps of the current approach?&#8221; Methodology: As there does not, to my understanding, exist a quantitative way to define&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/2021\/10\/22\/digital-ethics-methods\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179361],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-methods"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}