thats interesting I also note snide wit in that article but much less. I also see that article covers the topic of research ethics really. Speaking of which in my legal studies I was allowed access to a US legal database that can snoop on Americans, a similar service for legal research by the same company but for Canadian law can not search out Canadians by sin number or driver's license. Now we were told there were rules as to what we could access but that if we had a reason we could snoop. Now my question for cross border scholars are the research ethics much different based on the privacy laws in Canada, the USA, Europe or Asia? Of course I am more interested in privacy law differences than the actual ethics. But I am curious if there is an effect from the laws on the ethics? On 17-Dec-07, at 1:16 AM, Nicole B Ellison wrote:
Hi,
The New York Times has a nice write-up of academic research being done on Facebook: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/style/17facebook.html? _r=1&oref=slogin
It takes a different approach than the WP one.
Nicole
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