[3H2-OS-25b] [Organized Session] OS-25

[3H2-OS-25b-04] “It’s Public, and also Private”: An Analysis of Flaming Fan Studies

〇Hirotaka Osawa¹, Arisa Ema², Rena Saijo³, Akinori Kubo⁴, Nobutsugu Kanzaki⁵, Minao Kukita⁶, Ryutaro Ichise⁷, Hiromitsu Hattori⁸, Naonori Akiya⁹, Takushi Otani¹⁰ (1. University of Tsukuba, 2. The University of Tokyo, 3. Hokkaido University, 4. Hitotsubashi University, 5. Nanzan University, 6. Nagoya University, 7. National Institute of Informatics, 8. Ritsumeikan University, 9. Yamaguchi University, 10. Kibi International University)

Keywords:Research Ethics, Information Ethics

Online services make users’ communication activities and content public. This online information has contributed to accelerating the creation cycle of user-generated content. Moreover, these services also allow researchers to utilize these online texts as a public source for easily analyzing human activities, also referred to as social sensing studies. However, we need to realize that there exists a controversial problem of privacy especially in the sensitive areas of creation, even though the content is public. This study tries to create new guidelines for online study using the case of the flaming of a study of female fan-fiction, which attempted to extract and filter sexual expressions using online fan-fiction novels as source. Researchers from the fields of both engineering and humanities, including law and ethics, discussed the violations in this case, and extracted ethical, legal, and social issues according to their specific areas of expertise.