I sent cover letters with consent forms; I used my iPod as an audio recorder; I used my professional Canon XL camera to video tape consent; I used text messaging; I used Facebook; I used my weblogs; and I used electronic mail too to demonstrate the many ways that edutainment and convergence could be utilized. At the end of the day, the combination of email interviews, audio and video conversations; and the blogs were utilized for both consent and verification of all interviews and follow-up conversations. I utilized multiple online sources to publish my data with advanced consent of my subjects for my qualitative study, and my subjects required that I use their identities because they were media professionals in multiple cities. I utilize video and audio interviews, but everything revolved around the convergence of the Internet where I sent all questions, received responses, conducted interviews, made follow up calls, and clarified all responses via email before posting my results. In fact, my entire dissertation was based on open sourced research, so anonymity was not an issue for my study. As a producer, writer and director, I am used to using anonymity for certain types of stories but my case study was also very ethnographic in nature and the subjects were made aware that the research would be open from the beginning. This type of study may have been more difficult for folks who do not work in the media industry but my subjects had no problem speaking on camera or via the Internet. My topic was Edutainment & Convergence: How Can Entertainment Techniques and Technology Be Utilized In Higher Education From The Perspective Of Entertainment Professionals. You can check out the summary of the findings in a few weeks. I am celebrating the holidays, but the research will continue. This thing snowballed and now I new potential subjects finding me because I work in the business. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Burcu Bakioglu Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 7:00 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] informed consent Erika, i did my research in Second Life and I gathered informed consent with online digital notecards that you can create in SL, I also gathered some by sending my document via e-mail, AIM and such. Never used Skype because I never conducted interviews with it. I have encountered no problems what so ever. On Dec 17, 2007 6:31 PM, Erika Pearson <erika.pearson@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
I am curious as to people's experiences in gathering informed consent?
Our university has a paper document that it requires participants to sign -- but I was wondering if any of you have any experience in alternate ways of gathering this consent (i.e.: email or electronic document, printing out and mailing back or even scanning in a signed copy of the document) and any problems you encountered.
any help would be much appreciated. cheers erika ~~ Erika Pearson Dept. of Media, Film and Communication. University of Otago P.O. Box 56 Dunedin 9054 Aotearoa/New Zealand Ph: (+0064 3) 479-8680 E-mail: erika.pearson@otago.ac.nz
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