We are people and so are they: Shared intimacies and the ethics of digital ethnography in autism communities

This paper reflects on the three main ethical challenges we faced when conducting digital ethnography in three autism Brazilian communities on Facebook: how to position oneself as a researcher, how to deal with the identity of participants, and how to manage data when anonymity is not enforced. Afte...

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Main Authors: Débora Antunes, Alexander Dhoest
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-04-01
Series:Research Ethics Review
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1747016118820498