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The use of internet data in academic research without informed consent (covert research) is subject to a number of ethical quandaries. Here, the particular considerations that researching the radical right…

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Collecting Hate – The Ethics of Archiving and Researching on the Radical and Far Right

Daniel Jones
September 21, 2020

Introduction As a research centre focused on the far right and anti-fascism, the Searchlight Archive at the University of Northampton has increasingly come up against questions of the ethics involved…

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Examining ethical practicalities raised by Valencia-Garcia’s “The Ethics of Consuming Fascism”

Brian Hughes
February 26, 2019

Recently, Dr. Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia addressed the ethical challenge researchers face when purchasing extremist materials. In buying books from publishers, subscribing to podcasts, or paying for membership in web forums,…

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Lurking with the Radical Right: The ethics of online covert research

Collecting Hate – The Ethics of Archiving and Researching on the Radical and Far Right

Examining ethical practicalities raised by Valencia-Garcia’s “The Ethics of Consuming Fascism”