Of course you do. In addition: if you have internet research ethics on your mind, on behalf of my co-chairs and the AoIR Ethics Working Group, you are warmly invited to our open discussion of the DRAFT overview/introduction to IRE 3.0: Thursday, 11/Oct/2018 2:00pm - 3:30pm Sheraton - Salon 4 The document in its current state represents some two years of work by many hands, including organizers and participants at the ethics-related sessions at AoIR in 2016 and 2017, as well as subsequent conferences and workshops organized in Aarhus, Denmark, and Oslo, Norway. We are especially grateful to Anna Jobin and aline franzke for their extensive work on setting up our Slack space, the beginnings of a Zotero repository of documents, and substantive contributions to the structure and content of many of these documents. The opening summary is appended below to give you an initial sense of how the overview /introduction is shaping up, along with affiliated documents. We will make the document available in electronic format at the beginning of the session, accompanied by a brief introduction and overview from the co-chairs. The idea is to solicit your further critical comments and suggestions for improving the document over the coming year, with a view towards final submission at the AoIR 2019 meeting. We know the conference schedule is packed full of compellingly interesting panels and presentations - but we hope many of you will be able to find the time and energy to attend the session on Thursday. As with our previous ethics documents, this work depends centrally on your individual and collective wisdom and experience for its further development. Safe travels and see you there, - charles ess, Co-Chair, AoIR IRE 3.0 Ethics Working Group; Anja Bechman (Aarhus), Co-Chair, aline shakti franzke (University of Duisburg-Essen), Co-Chair Michael Zimmer (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Co-Chair Anne Hove Henriksen (Aarhus), Research Assistant and Administrator The AoIR IRE 3.0 Ethics Working Group, including: David J. Brake, Ane Kathrine Gammelby, Nele Heise, Annette Markham, Katrin Tildenberg, and Paul J. Reilly. == Summary This document introduces Internet Research Ethics (IRE) 3.0. We begin with a review of the AoIR ethical approaches and guidelines that we now designate as IRE 1.0 (Ess and the AoIR ethics working committee, 2002) and IRE 2.0 (Markham and Buchanan 2012; Ess, 2017): while driven by on-going changes and developments in the technological, legal, and ethical contexts that shape internet research, IRE 1.0 and 2.0 ground a basic ethical approach that continues as foundational for IRE 3.0. IRE 3.0 is then illustrated by way of two emerging elements – namely, greater attention to stages of research and what has become a standard problem of informed consent in Big Data research approaches. We then list and more briefly discuss the primary additional ethical challenges in IRE 3.0 as identified by the AoIR Ethics Working Group (EWG). We offer a general structure for ethical analysis, designed to help identify the ethically-relevant issues and questions, along with additional suggestions for how to begin to analyze and address these challenges in more detail. We aim to take up and exemplify this general structure as guiding more extensive analyses of specific modules in IRE 3.0, to be developed by teams made up of EWG members. Our first module on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is being developed by Anja Bechmann and Bendert Zevenbergen. A second module on Corporate Data is being developed. These specific modules will be included in a second series of documents, to be made available as they are ready as well as modified in light of subsequent developments. In these ways, we aim to produce “living documents,” i.e., documents that remain open to expansion and revision as ongoing technological developments demand. == -- Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess@media.uio.no