Conference session

How is research encouraged? How is it discouraged? Is scientific practice inseparable from service to statecraft? Addressing these questions, the separation of science and the state is offered as an interdisciplinary approach to ethical social research that seeks to make research public by inviting the public in as researchers with equal capacity to generate and disseminate information. The research program is described alongside reflections on initial attempts to apply it in the development of an experimental anonymous file sharing application, rmc-rooms, which attendees will be given the opportunity to demo.