Charles Ess wrote:
The ethics document is linked from the home page of AoIR, and can be directly accessed at www.aoir.org/reports/ethics.pdf
BTW, recently we had a discussion on this list, where a point was made that political issues are off-topic to AoIR (with respect to the AUT boycott of Israeli universities, which, thankfully, has now been overturned ), How do these guidelines, which clearly have a normative, read: political, intent, square with the professed apolitical nature of AoIR?
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While I don't intend to cite this particular post, I am still wondering, how you can ask us *not* to quote material you just made public? (Registration to this list is, after all, thankfully, automatic). Any citation -- provided that it would meet "fair use," "Urheberrecht," or [put your favorite national laws here] -- would certainly be covered by the national/regional laws I am aware of (not many). Surely, copyright laws (US/EU) would thus not prevent us to quote you. Professional courtesy still might (and indeed will in my case), but I was always curious, why one would publish material that should be off-limits for quoting. In the academic world, I have a certain sympathy for that, because, I'd rather not be quoted saying something really stupid. But, then again, this violates Cohen's/Habermas' rules for deliberation, which I actually find quite appealing. If we were less concerned about our reputation and more about deliberations, (social) sciences might actually progress faster. Maybe an ethic that would discount the damage done to professional reputation based on publication medium would help? Thomas -- thomas koenig, ph.d. http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/mmethods/staff/thomas/