Comments on: The ethics of collecting data in public space https://languageonthemove.com/22601-2/ Multilingualism, Intercultural communication, Consumerism, Globalization, Gender & Identity, Migration & Social Justice, Language & Tourism Wed, 01 Jul 2020 07:20:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Alexandra Grey https://languageonthemove.com/22601-2/#comment-72933 Wed, 01 Jul 2020 07:20:57 +0000 https://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=22601#comment-72933 In reply to Alexandra Grey.

Typo – legal regime obviously *doesn’t* apply in Australia

]]> By: Alexandra Grey https://languageonthemove.com/22601-2/#comment-72927 Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:33:36 +0000 https://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=22601#comment-72927 Sigurd, thank you very much for this piece. It’s a topic I find so relevant, and I also really appreciated the level of technical detail. And who doesn’t want to read a piece ‘tossing Goffman against Habermas’?! While the legal regime you’re examining obviously does apply in Australia, this tension between academic and personal interests in ‘public’ data is a consideration here too. On the ethics front, I have found it difficult to do ethnographic research ethically (as interpreted by a university committee) because of a belief that ethical research requires the specific consent, written on a form, of each person in each observed interaction. Obviously that forecloses actual ethnography, and reduces the research to a series of interviews or data transactions. But is institutional or public space ethnography actually unethical? I hope you and readers have a view on this question!

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