Dear Friends, ** Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research: Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee (Version 2.0) ** It is with great pleasure we announce that the 2012 AOIR Ethics guidelines document was approved by an overwhelming majority of the general membership of the Association of Internet Researchers and is finally available online. You can find the 2012 document at http://aoir.org/documents/ethics-guide/, along with a link to the wiki, where we’re starting to build a compendium of resources that we hope will continue to grow. http://ethics.aoir.org/ This 2012 document does not replace the 2002 guidelines, but lives alongside and builds from it. We hope both documents continue to provide a useful resource for researchers, students, academic institutions, and regulatory bodies. The 2012 document reflects nearly four years of collaborative effort of the ethics working committee. As with the first document, we believe it represents the diversity of the general membership, but is by no means the final word. The ethics working committee will continue to explore and debate how new experiences, issues and insights affiliated with Internet research evoke ethical challenges and demand ethically justifiable resolutions. We want to say thanks to the many AOIR members who contributed in a variety of ways to the document, especially our fellow members of the 2002-2012 ethics working committee. Thanks to: Maria Bakardjeiva, (Canada), Andrea Baker (USA), David Brake (UK), Charles Ess (Norway) Radhika Gajjala (USA) Camilla Gronholm (Finland) Jeremy Hunsinger (Canada) Mark D. Johns (USA) Steve Jones (USA) Stine Lomborg (Denmark) Heidi McKee (USA) Jim Porter (USA) Soraj Hongladaram (Thailand) Janet Salmons (USA) Susannah Stern (USA) Eva Svedmark (Sweden) Leslie Tkach (Japan) Leslie Regan Shade (Canada) Michele White (USA) Michael Zimmer (USA) Thanks for distributing this new resource widely among your networks and colleagues. If you have any questions or want to contribute to the wiki (hint hint), please don’t hesitate to email us, Best Regards Annette Markham and Elizabeth Buchanan amarkham@gmail.com buchanane@uwstout.edu ***************************************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Guest Professor, Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago amarkham@gmail.com http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Twitter: annettemarkham