Seems I've bounced one to many emails today - beta testing a new application - and I forgot to change the title of the message from which I stole the addy. *sigh* Message follows below.
For anyone who was following our earlier thread or who is interested in deontological and/or teleological approaches to online research, I am recommending a book for your reading pleasure.
I am currently reading
Couser, G. Thomas (2004). Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing</span>. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press.
First the book is not directly about human subjects research but from the perspective of life-writing it captures many of the issues discussed here. While I haven't finished reading I can tell you that I've marked up so much of the first 50 pages with thoughts and observations I can tell this is a good thought provoking work for those of us who take parts of people's lives as our research data.
Lois Ann Scheidt
Doctoral Student - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA
Adjunct Instructor - School of Informatics, IUPUI, Indianapolis IN USA and IUPUC, Columbus IN USA
Webpage: http://www.loisscheidt.com Blog: http://www.professional-lurker.com
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