Expert-workshop: “Ethical questions in empirical (de-)radicalization research – bridging online and offline”

The Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum grants an expert-workshop on “Ethical questions in empirical (de-)radicalization research – bridging online and offline” (11. and 12.03.2019) to Lena Frischlich together with Dr. Kerstin Eppert (Principal host, Institute for Conflict and Violence Research, University of Bielefeld), Dr. Nicole Bögelein (Criminology, University of Cologne), Dr. Melanie Reddig (Sociology, University of Düsseldorf), Dr. Nadine Jukschat (Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony), and Dr. Anja Schmidt-Kleinert (Political Science, University of Marburg). The workshop brings together researchers and experts across disciplines and research projects and from different European countries to discuss pressing questions emerging from the empirical study of (de-)radicalization. Topics range from the discussion of challenges and good practices for the safety and protection of researchers and participants, over questions regarding privacy, data collection and data management, and the challenging exchange with security partners up to discussion the risk to reproduce extremist narratives and share extremists’ messages, also in the context of open science.