@jablitt.bsky.social
Researcher at Cardiff University. Ethnography, ethnomethodology, membership categorisation analysis, interaction. Also children’s social care, youth justice. He/him
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Text: No consent forms were issued, and as such, no written consent was received. The slow, iterative, processual, interactional – and regularly renegotiated – verbal consent built throughout the two and a half years in the field was arguably more ethical than a moment-in-time signing of an overly-legalistic document that is a written consent form. The concern with written consent is that the event of signing a form or document that stipulates the granting of research access and indefinite recording during time in the field is ultimately superficial and – more so – easily forgettable. My wish was not to dupe my informants into allowing me to surveille and record anything and everything I observed while on shift with them, which would have been an option had I had a written contract allowing me to do such a thing. After an extended period of time in the field, and as I gained trust and became privy to more potentially sensitive information and events, written consent signed-off months prior would have granted me a technical passport to write about anything that occurred while I was present, but would be tantamount to intentional deception should it be used as an argument to do such a thing. This insincere tick-box ethics does not facilitate real informed consent in such long-term fieldwork arrangements.
Love this piece on 'tick-box ethics' from a very considered treatment of Ethical Considerations in @jablitt.bsky.social's ethnography "Accomplishing Public Work: Encounters with Park Rangers"
orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/14...
Interesting papers here. Reminded of me of the pleasure it was to work with @jablitt.bsky.social on the practical handling of “waste” (and “not waste”) in street-cleaning and the moral order of public space.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#EMCA
I wouldn't hate AI as much as I do if it didn't feel like it had to be force fed to us by tech companies because everyone clearly has little to no use for it other than being lazy and plagiarising more efficiently
25.11.2024 17:24 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Optimist: Cup is half full
Pessimist: Cup is half empty
Sacks: What I’m dealing with are possibilities… if we get a possibility we can establish, that’s fine. If one is claiming that it could be another thing, first one wants to show how it’s another possibility. That takes a task of analysis.
Ridiculous BBC headline:
"Public sector pay deals help drive up UK borrowing".
Nothing to do with corporate welfare, contracts for cronies, Govt paying higher energy bills, HMRC not collecting £500bn since 2010, Tory legacy.
Just blame workers wanting decent pay.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sorry to be controversial but now that we’re on a new platform can we all agree going forward to never use what corporations do or do not do as a basis for our own moral decision-making?
19.11.2024 15:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0sorry to harsh the vibe but if labour do not change course and start offering material solutions to the problems facing people in this country this is the face of our next prime minister
18.11.2024 21:48 — 👍 165 🔁 39 💬 28 📌 2
Charles Durante is my hero #Gibraltar I saw this Gibraltar Chronicle article on the Gibraltar Chronicle app and thought you’d be interested.
The Language Debate: No Laughing Matter
edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...
Great CEEIT data session today led by Patricia Jimenez on ‘what people talk about when they talk about AI’ @robinjsmith.bsky.social @wilhousley.bsky.social #MCA
15.11.2024 13:50 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Have you been to the Costa Coffee in Casemates? It does San Miguel on tap
14.11.2024 23:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is the kind of content I could get used to 💆🏻♂️
13.11.2024 22:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Here's an #EMCA #conversation analysis and #ethnomethodology #StarterPack #AcademicSky
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