VanBurgsteden2025
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | vanBurgsteden2025 |
| Author(s) | Lotte van Burgsteden, Wyke Stommel, Mike Huiskes, Marie Rickert |
| Title | Whose Ethics? Negotiations and Consultations between CA Scholars and Ethical Assessment Boards |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, ethics, online data, copyright, informed consent |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Research on Language and Social Interaction |
| Volume | 58 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 139–146 |
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| DOI | 10.1080/08351813.2025.2484990 |
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Abstract
The institutionalization of ethical oversight into an official requirement has posed challenges for researchers in conversation analysis (CA). We report on our negotiations with Dutch ethical assessment boards (EABs) on two actual CA project proposals, highlighting the problems they raised and what the outcomes were. We highlight issues concerning anonymizing participants, using online data and EAB protocols. We then report on our initiative to invite EAB members from four universities to a workshop on ethics in CA to explain our methods and discuss issues in applying for ethical approval. We discuss the benefits of collaborating with EAB members to ultimately ease ethical procedures for CA research. We conclude that ethical research requires a collaborative approach in which EABs, researchers, and participants co-develop an answer to the question “whose ethics?” using guidelines that balance societal changes, scientific advancements, and accountability.
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