Dear Colleagues, If you have had experience completing an Institutional Review Board approval (or disapproval) for ONLINE social research, we would like to invite you to share your experience with us for possible inclusion in a book chapter we are preparing for an edited volume concerning online research. The current AoIR list conversation concerning IRB procedures is very timely! Lack of specific rules and requirements for online research, and disagreements concerning the nature of online discourse on the part of IRBs, often cause frustration for researchers. In order to better prepare future researchers for IRB reviews, my colleagues (Sarina Chen and Jon Hall from the University of Northern Iowa) are seeking the specific experiences of veteran online researchers in dealing with IRBs. To participate, please go to our research web site, http://rtr.luther.edu and log on using the UserID of IRB (without the quotes) and the password of survey (again, no quotes). ID and password are not case sensitive. You may omit the name or alias box on the log in screen, as your responses will be anonymous. Please contact me off list at johnsmar@luther.edu if you have questions or difficulties. THANK YOU in advance for taking a few minutes to share with us your experience with IRB review for online social research. -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Asst. Professor of Communication/Linguistics, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain