Internet research ethics
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Internet research ethics involves the research ethics of Internet research, with an emphasis on social science, humanities and scientific research carried out via the Internet.
Especially well-known to those interested in bioethics is the Belmont report.[1] It provided a useful conceptual framework for consideration of issues in research ethics relevant to the protection of human subjects involved in biomedical or behavioral research. However, its principle-based approach is only one of a number of conceptual frameworks that are used to examine ethical issues. Others[2] include:
- Consequentialism (or Utilitarian ethics)
- Deontological ethics
- Ethics of care
- Virtue ethics
- Open source ethics
The webpage of the Association of Internet Researchers Ethics Working Group (AoIR Ethics Working Group) provides links to some online resources.
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- Berry, David M. (2004). Internet Research: Privacy, Ethics and Alienation - An Open Source Approach. The Journal of Internet Research, 14(4) PDF, 105 KB. Emphasis on Internet research ethics within the larger context of "open-source ethics".
- Gunther Eysenbach and James Till. Ethical issues in qualitative research on Internet communities. BMJ 2001(10 November); 323(7321): 1103-1105. Emphasis on a perspective from the biomedical and health sciences.
- Charles Ess and the AoIR ethics working committee of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). Provides access to the Ethics Working Committee document on Internet research ethics that was approved by voting members of the AoIR on November 27, 2002 PDF, 330 KB.
- Internet Research Ethics: Introduction. An introduction, by Charles Ess, to papers that emerged from a panel presentation organized for a conference held at Lancaster University on December 14- December 16, 2001, building on the efforts of the Ethics Working Committee of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). Emphasis on perspectives of researchers and scholars in the social sciences and humanities.
- Ethical and Legal Aspects of Human Subjects Research in Cyberspace. Provides access to a report of a workshop held in Washington DC on June 10- June 11, 1999 PDF, 65 KB. Includes useful references to the earlier literature.
- Johns, M. D., Chen, S., & Hall, G. J. (Eds.). (2004). Online Social Research: Methods, Issues & Ethics. Digital formations (p. 273). New York: P. Lang.
- Elizabeth Buchanan (ed.) (2004). Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies. Hershey: Idea Group.
- Charles Ess, (2009) Digital Media Ethics. London: Polity.
- Elizabeth Buchanan (forthcoming) "Internet Research Ethics: Past, Present, and Future" in Robert Burnett, Mia Consalvo, and C. Ess (eds.), The Blackwell Handbook of Internet Studies
