Abstract
Trans communities across the United States are under assault. Researchers seeking to work with trans people and other multiply marginalized and underrepresented communities must attend to ethical research practices within the communities in which they participate. Digital research ethics is particularly murky with issues of embodiment, vulnerability, and unclear IRB guidance. Comparing two transparency activist organizations-Wikileaks and DDoSecrets-we introduce "qubit ethics," a trans material, trans-corporeal ethics of care as praxis within vulnerable online communities. We then demonstrate how this unique approach to research design allows for the complex entanglements that is trans life, particularly digital life. Finally, we present clear take-Aways for qubit-ethics informed social justice research.
Recommended Citation
Edenfield, Avery, Ryan Cheek, and Sam Clem. "Trans∗Vulnerability And Digital Research Ethics: A Qubit Ethical Analysis Of Transparency Activism." Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication: Building Coalitions. Worldwide, SIGDOC 2021, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, pp.101-107.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1145/3472714.3473628
Department(s)
English and Technical Communication
Keywords and Phrases
materialism; research ethics; rhetoric; social justice; trans; transparency activism; Vulnerability
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-145038628-9
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2023 Association for Computing Machinery, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
12 Oct 2021
