Readings in virtual research ethics : issues and controversies

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Hershey, PA : Information Science Publishing, 2004

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9781591401520

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Internet research -- Moral and ethical aspects

Internet -- Social aspects -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects

Cyberspace -- Social aspects -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects

Research -- Moral and ethical aspects

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Buchanan, Elizabeth A.

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Provides an in-depth look at the emerging field of online research and the corresponding ethical dilemmas associated with it. Issues related to traditional research ethics such as autonomy or respect for persons, justice, and beneficence are extended into the virtual realm and such areas as subject selection and recruitment, informed consent, privacy, ownership of data, and research with minors, among many others are explored in the media and contexts of email surveys and interviews, synchronous chat, virtual ethnography, asynchronous discussion lists, and newsgroups.

Elizabeth A. BuchananBlaine F. Peden and Douglas P. FlashinskiCharles Ess and Steven JonesMalin SveningssonM. Maczewski and M.-A. Storey and M. HoskinsDanielle LawsonNadia Olivero and Peter LuntSandeep KrishnamurthyW. Benjamin Porr and Robert E. PloyhartLynne Roberts and Leigh Smith and Clare PollockMary K. WalstromMonica WhittyMaximilian ForteDavid ClarkMichael D. AyersSusannah R. SternMagdalena BoberKirk St. AmantMaria Bakardjieva and Andrew Feenberg and Janis Goldie

Preface	p. vi
Section I Foundations of Virtual Research Ethics
Chapter I. Virtual Research Ethics: A Content Analysis of Surveys and Experiments Online	p. 1
Chapter II. Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research: Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee	p. 27
Chapter III. Ethics in Internet Ethnography	p. 45
Chapter IV. Conducting Congruent, Ethical, Qualitative Research in Internet-Mediated Research Environments	p. 62
Section II Media, Messages and Ethics?
Chapter V. Blurring the Boundaries: Ethical Considerations for Online Research Using Synchronous CMC Forums	p. 80
Chapter VI. When the Ethic is Functional to the Method: The Case of E-Mail Qualitative Interviews	p. 101
Chapter VII. The Ethics of Conducting E-Mail Surveys	p. 114
Chapter VIII. Organizational Research Over the Internet: Ethical Challenges and Opportunities	p. 130
Section III Researchers/Researched? Research Ethics in Practice
Chapter IX. Conducting Ethical Research Online: Respect for Individuals, Identities and the Ownership of Words	p. 156
Chapter X. Ethics and Engagement in Communication Scholarship: Analyzing Public, Online Support Groups as Researcher/Participant-Experiencer	p. 174
Chapter XI. Peering into Online Bedroom Windows: Considering the Ethical Implications of Investigating Internet Relationships and Sexuality	p. 203
Chapter XII. Co-Construction and Field Creation: Website Development as both an Instrument and Relationship in Action Research	p. 219
Chapter XIII. What If You Meet Face to Face? A Case Study in Virtual/Material Research Ethics	p. 246
Chapter XIV. Fact or Fiction: Notes of a Man Interviewing Women Online	p. 262
Section IV Online Research with Minors--Special Considerations?
Chapter XV. Studying Adolescents Online: A Consideration of Ethical Issues	p. 274
Chapter XVI. Virtual Youth Research: An Exploration of Methodologies and Ethical Dilemmas from a British Perspective	p. 288
Section V A Call to Researchers
Chapter XVII. International Digital Studies: A Research Approach for Examining International Online Interactions	p. 317
Chapter XVIII. User-Centered Internet Research: The Ethical Challenge	p. 338
About the Authors	p. 351
Index	p. 357

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