The Ethics of Consent: Reflecting on the Case of r/ChangeMyView

Authors

• Casey Fiesler, University of Colorado
• Jessica Vitak, University of Maryland
• Michael Zimmer, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2025

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Source Publication

Voices of SIGCHI

Source ISSN

3067-0691

Original Item ID

DOI: 10.1145/3771982.3771983

Abstract

The SIGCHI Research Ethics Committee was established in 2016 in recognition of how the shifting technological landscape has complicated research ethics in HCI. Our research community has also taken up the call to help understand and guide this complex space, examining topics such as research taking place on online platforms without explicit consent, the use of bots as confederates in field experiments, debriefing for large-scale experiments, HCI research that involves or implicates marginalized populations, and ethical considerations for studying social media platforms such as Reddit.

Comments

Voices of SIGCHI, Vol. 1, No. 2 (July 2025): 3-5. DOI. 

Recommended Citation

Fiesler, Casey; Vitak, Jessica; and Zimmer, Michael, "The Ethics of Consent: Reflecting on the Case of r/ChangeMyView" (2025). Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications. 131.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/comp_fac/131