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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)
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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.
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.
Traditional Open Panel
P149
Autocensura in Academia and STS — transformations, negotiations and practices of knowledge production. Methods, paradigms and theoretical challenges
Session 1