title: Accountability and values in radically collaborative research.
abstract: This paper discusses a crisis of accountability that arises when scientific collaborations are massively epistemically distributed. We argue that social models of epistemic collaboration, which are social analogs to what Patrick Suppes called a "model of the experiment," must play a role in creating accountability in these contexts. We also argue that these social models must accommodate the fact that the various agents in a collaborative project often have ineliminable, messy, and conflicting interests and values; any story about accountability in a massively distributed collaboration must therefore involve models of such interests and values and their methodological and epistemic effects.
authors: Eric
authors: E
authors: Winsberg
authors: Bryce
authors: B
authors: Huebner
authors: Rebecca
authors: R
authors: Kukla
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D055907:Climatic Processes; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D055904:Meteorology / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards; D012941:Social Responsibility