of course you do ... At least, this is the primary starting point of the approaches to developing ethics guidelines for internet research since the inception of AoIR - i.e., that enculturated human beings in general and practitioners in particular bring to the tables of ethical reflection and deliberation our extensive experience and capacities for ethical judgment and decision-making. Our dialogical processes have further involved applied ethicists, philosophers of technology, cross-cultural perspectives, any number of colleagues in the social sciences, humanities, mathematics, computer science, network engineering - you name it - issuing in, among other things, three documents on internet research ethics that have often proven to be centrally useful to both researchers and ethics review boards around the globe. Moreover, the AoIR conferences have included attention to ethical matters beyond internet research ethics: this year, in particular, the CFP included Power, justice and inequality in digitally mediated lives; Life, sex, and death vis-a-vis social media; and Political Life online. As many of you know/recall, this year inaugurates a new collaboration with the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (JICES) and AoIR. The aim is to encourage the development of papers and then articles appropriate to the JICES' foci on social and ethical issues evoked in "the planning, development, implementation and use of new media and information technologies." I'm very pleased to note that the CFP evoked a terrific series of papers that will be presented tomorrow, October 29, in two panels: Theoretical and Practical Research Ethics: Three Cases (12.00-13.00 UTC) Legal and Ethical Perspectives on (Big) Data, Platforms, AI and Algorithms (15.00-16.00 UTC) If you browse the titles and abstracts, you'll find a wide diversity of topics and approaches that will all but certainly overlap with one or more of the ethical matters of interest, if not compelling urgency, to you and yours, whether as practitioners and/or human beings and citizens in the contemporary worlds. Both panels will be hosted on Zoom: links and additional information can be found on the AoIR calendar. On behalf of our panelists and co-organizer aline shakti franzke, we warmly encourage you to expand and sharpen your ethical chops by participating in the panels as you can. Many thanks and hope to see many of you there. all best, - charles ess -- Professor Emeritus Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Fellow, Siebold-Collegiums Institute for Advanced Studies, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany Co-chair & Editor, Internet Research Ethics 3.0 <https://aoir.org/reports/ethics3.pdf> 3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics now out: <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428> Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess@media.uio.no