ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 crisis opened up discussions on using online tools and platforms for academic work, e.g. for research (management) events that were originally designed as face-to-face interactions. As social scientists working in the domain of responsible research and innovation (RRI), we draft this paper to open up a dialogue on Responsible online Research and Innovation (RoRI), and deliberate particular socioethical opportunities and challenges of the onlineification in collaborative theoretical and empirical research. An RRI-inspired ‘going online’ approach would mean, we suggest, trying to make academic events and research activities more inclusive, researchers’ attitude to their work more reflective and suggest processes that are more responsive to societal needs and ethical concerns. For such systematic reflection, we suggest using the RRI-heuristic provided by Owen et al., and applying the dimensions of ‘Anticipation, Inclusion, Reflection and Responsiveness’ (AIRR) in order to identify and reflect on the dilemmas involved in ‘going online’ in one’s research.

摘要

COVID-19危机引发了关于使用在线工具和平台进行学术工作的讨论，例如用于最初设计为面对面互动的研究（管理）事件。作为负责任研究与创新（RRI）领域的社会科学家，我们起草本文旨在就负责任的在线研究与创新（RoRI）展开对话，并在合作的理论和实证研究中探讨特定的社会伦理机遇和挑战研究。我们建议，以RRI为灵感的“上网”方法将意味着使学术活动和研究活动更具包容性，研究人员对其工作的态度应更具反思性，并提出对社会需求和道德关注事项更敏感的流程。为了这种系统的思考，