Hi there - I have been thinking about this too - you may be interested in the attached paper on how researchers have solved what I called their digital dilemmas... Best, Sonia Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE Department of Media and Communications London School of Economics and Political Science Room S105, St Clements Building, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK Web http://brk.mn/sonia Twitter @Livingstone_S Projects: www.eukidsonline.net and http://clrn.dmlhub.net/projects/the-class Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Fellow and Past President, International Communication Association New books: Children, Risk and Safety Online (2012), Media Regulation (2012), Meanings of Audiences (2013) -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Nele Heise Sent: 16 January 2014 19:40 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Seeking item batteries, measurements, empirical tools etc. concerning (online) research ethics Ahoi, you wonderful list-people: I'm writing to you today because I need your help regarding a survey on online research ethics. The debate about the ethical dilemmas, challenges, responsibilities etc. in online-based research is going on for many years (and is constantly re-freshed with new research possibilities such as big data ...). Nevertheless, we do not have too much information about how researchers deal with these questions, how they negotiate new standards or in how far they consider ethical questions in their everyday practices at all. In this context, an explorative interview study - which I carried out with 17 Internet researchers in 2010 - revealed some interesting aspects and I always wanted to do something with a wider scale on this topic. This year I finally have the chance to carry out a survey with Internet researchers in Germany/German speaking countries due to a (small) funding by the German Association of Online Researchers. At the moment, I am starting to work on the questionnaire - and here's my question to you: Can you recommend any item batteries, surveys, measurements etc. concerning (online) research ethics? I am aware of several documents such as the AoIR guidelines, McKee/Porter's book and so forth, but I cannot recall any empirical work (maybe M. Zimmer's survey on Twitter research?). Your suggestions - no matter from which research disciplines - would be really really helpful! Although the survey is limited to German-speaking countries, the results might also be interesting for researchers in other countries. So, if the whole thing is successful (and even if it's not) I'll gladly share the outcomes with y'all :-) Many thanks and "Tschüss" from Hamburg, Nele -- Nele Heise, M.A. Junior Researcher Hans-Bredow-Institut Rothenbaumchaussee 36 20148 Hamburg Tel. (+49 40) 450 217 87 Fax: (+49 40) 450 217 77 E-Mail: n.heise@hans-bredow-institut.de Twitter: @neleheise www.neleheise.de <http://www.hans-bredow-institut.de> _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://lse.ac.uk/emailDisclaimer