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Deciding What to Share and With Whom to Share It

16 October, 2015 - 11:36

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. Identify the six questions social researchers should be able to answer to ensure that their ethical obligations have been met.
  2. Describe how differences in one’s audience might shape how a person shares research findings.

When preparing to share our work with others we must decide what to share, with whom to share it, and in what format(s) to share it. In this section, we’ll consider the former two aspects of sharing our work. In the sections that follow, we’ll consider the various formats and mechanisms through which social scientists might share their work.