TY - JOUR
T1 - Online targeting of researchers/academics
T2 - Ethical obligations and best practices
AU - Greyson, Devon
AU - Cooke, Nicole
AU - Gibson, Amelia
AU - Julien, Heidi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2018 by Association for Information Science and Technology
PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - Targeted online harassment of academics has been on the rise in the US and internationally. Such harassment ranges from online threats and hacking to doxxing and organized campaigns to discredit one's work. It has now become an often-unrecognized part of the job for academics—particularly socially marginalized academics and those who study controversial topics such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality—to work to protect themselves from such attacks. With this increase in intimidation attempts, new questions for the profession arise regarding what skills we should be instilling in trainees, whether professional association and academic units should be taking explicit positions or action on researcher/faculty harassment, and the obligations of our employers with regard to defending faculty, staff, and students. This panel will describe targeted online harassment of academics, discuss models for individual and institutional response, and raise questions for the profession as a whole. Sponsored by SIG ED.
AB - Targeted online harassment of academics has been on the rise in the US and internationally. Such harassment ranges from online threats and hacking to doxxing and organized campaigns to discredit one's work. It has now become an often-unrecognized part of the job for academics—particularly socially marginalized academics and those who study controversial topics such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality—to work to protect themselves from such attacks. With this increase in intimidation attempts, new questions for the profession arise regarding what skills we should be instilling in trainees, whether professional association and academic units should be taking explicit positions or action on researcher/faculty harassment, and the obligations of our employers with regard to defending faculty, staff, and students. This panel will describe targeted online harassment of academics, discuss models for individual and institutional response, and raise questions for the profession as a whole. Sponsored by SIG ED.
KW - LIS education
KW - Online harassment
KW - institutional obligations
KW - racism
KW - sexism
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U2 - 10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501081
DO - 10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501081
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85064518740
SN - 2373-9231
VL - 55
SP - 684
EP - 687
JO - Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
JF - Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
IS - 1
ER -