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Jon Ablitt
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Researcher at Cardiff University. Ethnography, ethnomethodology, membership categorisation analysis, interaction. Also children’s social care, youth justice. He/him
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Love this piece on 'tick-box ethics' from a very considered treatment of Ethical Considerations in @jablitt.bsky.social's ethnography "Accomplishing Public Work: Encounters with Park Rangers"

orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/14...
Text: No consent forms were issued, and as such, no written consent was received. The slow, iterative, processual, interactional – and regularly renegotiated – verbal consent built throughout the two and a half years in the field was arguably more ethical than a moment-in-time signing of an overly-legalistic document that is a written consent form. The concern with written consent is that the event of signing a form or document that stipulates the granting of research access and indefinite recording during time in the field is ultimately superficial and – more so – easily forgettable. My wish was not to dupe my informants into allowing me to surveille and record anything and everything I observed while on shift with them, which would have been an option had I had a written contract allowing me to do such a thing. After an extended period of time in the field, and as I gained trust and became privy to more potentially sensitive information and events, written consent signed-off months prior would have granted me a technical passport to write about anything that occurred while I was present, but would be tantamount to intentional deception should it be used as an argument to do such a thing. This insincere tick-box ethics does not facilitate real informed consent in such long-term fieldwork arrangements.
December 13, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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tomusher.bsky.social
I wouldn't hate AI as much as I do if it didn't feel like it had to be force fed to us by tech companies because everyone clearly has little to no use for it other than being lazy and plagiarising more efficiently
November 25, 2024 at 5:24 PM
jablitt.bsky.social
Have you been to the Costa Coffee in Casemates? It does San Miguel on tap
November 14, 2024 at 11:15 PM