Project Profile:

Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC)

Website: http://www.drecollab.org/

Twitter: @DRECollab

Description: The Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory brings together stories, questions, provocations and proposals from researchers, archivists, publishers, community organizers and artists grappling with the ethical challenges of building equitable research relationships and reciprocal research cultures, digitizing, archiving, publishing and other forms of “onlining” previously not-online minoritized cultural heritage materials and practices, and researching social media and other user-generated content, networks and socialities.

Contributors:

  • T.L. Cowan, Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Digital Media Cultures), Department of Arts, Culture and Media (UTSC) and the Faculty of Information (iSchool) at the University of Toronto
  • Jasmine Rault, Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Digital Media Cultures), Department of Arts, Culture and Media (UTSC) and the Faculty of Information (iSchool) at the University of Toronto

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