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Accepted Paper:
Ethics and political economies of ethnographical knowledge. From ethics of care to autocensura in qualitative digital STS
Marcin Zarod
(SWPS University Warsaw)
Paper short abstract:
Researching hacking and security places additional burden on the qualitative researcher. The paper will present three cases I opted for autocensura in the field of STS, surveillance studies and hacking ethnography. Questions will be related to state knowledge, large language models and epistemology.
Paper long abstract:
Researching hacking and security places additional burden on the qualitative researcher. The paper will present three cases I opted for autocensura in the field of STS, surveillance studies and hacking ethnography. Questions will be related to state knowledge, large language models and epistemology.
In the first question, I will outline the autocensura dynamics between what became publicly known in published papers and even the basic fact of asking some questions. In the second question, I will ask about relation of autocensura and deliberate agnotology in relation to ethics. In the second question, I will make case for cultivated agontology (purposeful un-knowing) of some details from social lives of ethnography participants in the age of large language models (AI) and open data.
As a summary I will show how knowledge from my field translates to wider array of social research and how it links autocensura, sociological reflexivity (Z. Bauman) with security and privacy studies.