I happily pass this on from Amy Bruckman... Charles Ess Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC 2002: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/ "...to be non-violent, we must not wish for anything on this earth which the meanest and lowest of human beings cannot have." -- Gandhi ---------- From: "Amy S. Bruckman" <asb@cc.gatech.edu> Reply-To: ethics@aoir.org Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:32:21 -0400 To: ethics@aoir.org Subject: [Ethics] public mailing list If anyone's interested, I've set up a new public mailing list for discussion of these issues. (If someone could please forward this to the AoIR public lists, I'd appreciate it--I'm not on any of those lists.) -- Amy ------- Forwarded Message Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:20:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: New mailing list: online-research-ethics If you're interested in joining the new online-research-ethics mailing list: mail: majordomo@cc.gatech.edu place in the message body: subscribe online-research-ethics A quick intro to the issue: I've been doing some work on trying to development guidelines for ethical research online. I'm part of working groups from APA and AoIR to develop formal policies. There are lots of thorny issues. Here's an example of a controversial situation: studying discourse in chatrooms. View 1: "A chat room is like a public square" Linguists reserve the right to record dialog in public places and study its formal properties. They can take notes or even tape record conversations say in a park. They don't need consent for this. Identity of subjects is disguised. Many linguists argue that open Internet chatrooms are an analogous situation, and they can record whatever they like and analyze it without acknowledging their presence. View 2: "A chat room is like my living room" Others argue that because chat rooms are normally not recorded, participants have a reasonable expectation that discourse there is ephemeral. You can't record it without permission. You can't make individuals be subjects in an experimental study without their freely-given informed consent. Messy, no? Join the mailing list for more. The list is open to anyone. Especially welcome are: * Individuals seeking advice on their own research * Members or IRBs struggling to handle research proposals The list is "off the record"--you may not quote postings from it without written permission of the author. I hope this will help foster free discussion. Please feel free to forward this message to interested people, and post it to appropriate lists. - -- Amy ------- End of Forwarded Message _______________________________________________ Ethics mailing list Ethics@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/ethics