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"Research or Creative Practice The Ethics of Innovative Research Using New Technologies"

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Walton, Nancy. “Research or creative practice? The ethics of innovative research using new technologies, Tuesday, May 5, 2009” The Research Ethics Blog (accessed April 22, 2010)

 

Walton, the primary author of ‘The Research Ethics Blog’ is an associate Professor at Ryerson University, Toronto Canada, on the Research Ethics Board, so her perspective on the topic of creative arts as research is not that of arts practitioner.

 

Walton’s blog of the fifth of May in 2009 raises two examples of researchers using alternative means of investigating their social subjects through creative new media projects. Walton’s interest lies in considering how an ethics review board might approach projects that are on the borderline between research and creative practice. The first example is a project of Nick Trujillo’s in which he has created an online persona of an aging rock-star with a website and you-tube videos in the hope that a large following will be generated, ideally engaging genuine celebrities to collaborate in the myth production. The second example is Neil Whitehead’s ‘Blood Jewel’ project, a provocative goth-style music group on MySpace and YouTube, created with the intention of studying cyberculture from an internal perspective.

 

Walton’s tone is somewhat critical of the two projects, questioning their status as research and their social value, and raising the issue of whether an ethics board should or shouldn't have a role to play in reviewing such projects. Interestingly, Trujillo has posted a reply on the Blog discussing the particulars of his project in regard to the questions raised by Walton. This Blog is well worth a visit to get a taste of an external perspective on emerging creative use of technology as a research method.

Zoë Evershed

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