Exploring the ethical issues in research using digital data collection strategies with minors: A scoping review.
While emerging digital health technologies offer researchers new avenues to collect real-time data, little is known about current ethical dimensions, considerations, and challenges that are associated with conducting digital data collection in research with minors. As such, this paper reports the fi...
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| description | While emerging digital health technologies offer researchers new avenues to collect real-time data, little is known about current ethical dimensions, considerations, and challenges that are associated with conducting digital data collection in research with minors. As such, this paper reports the findings of a scoping review which explored existing literature to canvass current ethical issues that arise when using digital data collection in research with minors. Scholarly literature was searched using electronic academic databases for articles that provided explicit ethical analysis or presented empirical research that directly addressed ethical issues related to digital data collection used in research with minors. After screening 1,156 titles and abstracts, and reviewing 73 full-text articles, 20 articles were included in this review. Themes which emerged across the reviewed literature included: consent, data handling, minors' data rights, observing behaviors that may result in risk of harm to participants or others, private versus public conceptualizations of data generated through social media, and gatekeeping. Our findings indicate a degree of uncertainty which invariably exists with regards to the ethics of research that involves minors and digital technology. The reviewed literature suggests that this uncertainty can often lead to the preclusion of minors from otherwise important lines of research inquiry. While uncertainty warrants ethical consideration, increased ethical scrutiny and restricting the conduct of such research raises its own ethical challenges. We conclude by discussing and recommending the ethical merits of co-producing ethical practice between researchers and minors as a mechanism to proceed with such research while addressing concerns around uncertainty. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-167e240e9adf430fb83c3f3a74188cd62025-02-05T05:33:01ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032020-01-01158e023787510.1371/journal.pone.0237875Exploring the ethical issues in research using digital data collection strategies with minors: A scoping review.Danica FaccaMaxwell J SmithJacob ShelleyDaniel LizotteLorie DonelleWhile emerging digital health technologies offer researchers new avenues to collect real-time data, little is known about current ethical dimensions, considerations, and challenges that are associated with conducting digital data collection in research with minors. As such, this paper reports the findings of a scoping review which explored existing literature to canvass current ethical issues that arise when using digital data collection in research with minors. Scholarly literature was searched using electronic academic databases for articles that provided explicit ethical analysis or presented empirical research that directly addressed ethical issues related to digital data collection used in research with minors. After screening 1,156 titles and abstracts, and reviewing 73 full-text articles, 20 articles were included in this review. Themes which emerged across the reviewed literature included: consent, data handling, minors' data rights, observing behaviors that may result in risk of harm to participants or others, private versus public conceptualizations of data generated through social media, and gatekeeping. Our findings indicate a degree of uncertainty which invariably exists with regards to the ethics of research that involves minors and digital technology. The reviewed literature suggests that this uncertainty can often lead to the preclusion of minors from otherwise important lines of research inquiry. While uncertainty warrants ethical consideration, increased ethical scrutiny and restricting the conduct of such research raises its own ethical challenges. We conclude by discussing and recommending the ethical merits of co-producing ethical practice between researchers and minors as a mechanism to proceed with such research while addressing concerns around uncertainty.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237875&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Danica Facca Maxwell J Smith Jacob Shelley Daniel Lizotte Lorie Donelle Exploring the ethical issues in research using digital data collection strategies with minors: A scoping review. PLoS ONE |
| title | Exploring the ethical issues in research using digital data collection strategies with minors: A scoping review. |
| title_full | Exploring the ethical issues in research using digital data collection strategies with minors: A scoping review. |
| title_fullStr | Exploring the ethical issues in research using digital data collection strategies with minors: A scoping review. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the ethical issues in research using digital data collection strategies with minors: A scoping review. |
| title_short | Exploring the ethical issues in research using digital data collection strategies with minors: A scoping review. |
| title_sort | exploring the ethical issues in research using digital data collection strategies with minors a scoping review |
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