Dear AoIRists, Recently, Elizabeth Buchanan (chair of the AoIR ethics working group and one of our co-hosts/organizers for Internet Research 10.0 [!!] / AoIR 2009 in Milwaukee) and I had the privilege and pleasure of offering a workshop on Internet Research Ethics at the University of Washington, Seattle (21. May, 2009), followed by a research seminar at the UW Information School (22. May 2009 - funded by NSF SES grant 0646591). Our topics in the latter were the internet and changes in (conceptions of) Human Subjects and in internet research ethics. In response to a most spot-on question from Lori Miller, Director of the UW GenOM Project, regarding the possible role of virtue ethics, I tried to show some very large connections between internet research methodologies (ranging between the qualitative and the quantitative) (preferred/commonly used) ethical frameworks (virtue ethics - deontologies - utilitarianism) (i.e., in evaluating the ethical dimensions of such research) underlying assumptions/conceptions of the self (more community/relational - [modern] atomistic) underlying notions of and attitudes towards privacy, and, finally, "Eastern" and "Western" conceptions of self/community in order to argue that we may be seeing an emerging, "...shared sense of ethical norms, values, practices, etc. that will constitute a pluralistic and global information ethics, including internet research ethics as one particular component (Ess 2006, 2007). That is, as we converge towards more relational senses of self, this sense of self will bring in its train an increased emphasis on the sorts of virtue ethics appropriate to such selves." (A very long answer to a very simple question - but that's what one gets for asking a philosopher, I suppose ...) In all events, our hosts included Karine Barzilai-Nahon and Bob Mason, who kindly requested a written version of the lecture, which I happily provided. Karine, in turn, has posted the written version on her (otherwise most impressive!) website at <http://ekarine.org/2009/06/ethicshs/> I'm very grateful to Karine and her colleagues for their interest in making this material available to a larger audience in this way - and would welcome any comments, suggestions, criticisms, recommendations for additional resources, etc. that AoIR-ists may have time and opportunity to provide. Again, many thanks to Karine and all of our hosts at UW-Seattle - cheers, - c.