CS235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Implied Consent, Participant Observation, Milgram Experiment
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Todays learning objectives: understand canadian ethic principles underlying communication research, recognize rights of research participants and responsibilities of researchers, grasp emergent ethical issues pertinent to communication research, including qualitative & digital research. The value of research depends as much on its ethical veracity as on the novelty of its discoveries. Refers to the rules of conduct of carrying out research. Essential part of research conduct and integrity. Present at all stages of research: ethics everywhere. Fraud: fabrication: making up data, falsification: illegitimately manipulating data. Plagiarism: stealing others work: self plagiarism: redundant publication. Open to external scrutiny (scholarly peer review) Declaration of helsinki (1964): guide the medical research, so all medical professions can conduct ethical research. Induced to participate poorly educated, promised things in the end. Were not cured after infected, 128 participants died. 1972 the experiment was still ongoing, public outrage that let to the experiment termination lawsuit of 10million provided surviversmedical service with free medical service.
