Exploring Ethical Grey Areas from a Micro-Ethics Perspective:A Case Study of Text Mining Research Methods
Micro-ethics focuses on context-specific issues in research.The ethical grey areas in the humanities and social sciences are explored were from a micro-ethical perspective.100 related academic articles was conducted with the widely applied text mining research method as an example.Findings indicate that 52％of the articles did not explicitly address ethical awareness,and those that did rarely adopted the perspective of participants.Key ethical grey areas in text mining research include the protection of participants'privacy,the legality of data acquisition,objectivity and impartiality in analysis,the confirmation of informed consent,and the protection of platform commercial interests.This paper concludes by presenting ethical corsiderations and recommendations specifically aligned with each stage of the research process.
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