Digital tools and ethical dilemmas in oral history
Outils numériques et questions éthiques en histoire orale
Published on Tuesday, July 03, 2018
Abstract
This survey focuses on digital tools and ethical dilemmas. It is conducted as part of a research project on digital oral history and is open to anyone who has already recorded, archived or disseminated oral history interviews. Respondents can choose to answer in French, English or Spanish.
Announcement
Survey summary
This survey is conducted as part of my PhD at King’s College London (United Kingdom). My research focuses on digital oral history and tensions created by digital technologies. Indeed, such technologies enhance the visibility and use of historical archives; yet they also trigger new dilemmas. Projects producing audiovisual archives such as oral history recordings have to reconcile competing expectations: transparency of publicly-funded research, open access to information, use of the latest technologies for dissemination, respect of copyright, requirement for data protection and need for participants’ informed consent.
My research investigates and seeks to alleviate some of the difficulties thus created. My work is grounded in interpretative approaches developed in digital humanities to assess the novelty of dilemmas caused by digital technologies, and their impact on research sources and projects. Using a historical and comparative methodology, my project aims to identify the scope of tensions, to assess any changes in the digital context and to map the strategies developed by stakeholders.
My research supervisors are Dr Mark Hedges (Senior Lecturer) and Dr Tobias Blanke (Reader and Head of Department); they are both based in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London.
Participation
You are invited to answer, whatever your country, discipline and type of institution. You can choose any of the following languages:
- Answer in English - https://kings.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/oral-history-en
- Répondre en français - https://kings.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/oral-history-fr
- Responder en español - https://kings.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/oral-history-es
It takes approximately 20 minutes (depending on how much you wish to write) and
is open until the 31st July 2018.
This survey is anonymous and your answers will be handled securely in line with my university’s research data management policy.
Subjects
- Modern (Main category)
- Society > Sociology
- Mind and language > Thought > Philosophy
- Mind and language > Information > Information sciences
- Society > Ethnology, anthropology
- Mind and language > Information > History and sociology of the media
- Society > Political studies
- Mind and language > Epistemology and methodology
Date(s)
- Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Keywords
- histoire orale, éthique, numérique, enquête, entretien, méthode qualitative, archive audiovisuelle, oral history, ethic, digital, interview, qualitative method, audiovisual archive
Contact(s)
- Myriam Fellous-Sigrist
courriel : myriam [dot] fellous-sigrist [at] kcl [dot] ac [dot] uk
Information source
- Myriam Fellous-Sigrist
courriel : myriam [dot] fellous-sigrist [at] kcl [dot] ac [dot] uk
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Digital tools and ethical dilemmas in oral history », Miscellaneous information, Calenda, Published on Tuesday, July 03, 2018, https://doi.org/10.58079/10im
