Re: [Air-L] Kefuffle researching fanfic/fandom
On Wednesday 02 September 2009, Katy E. Pearce wrote:
a survey of various LiveJournal fanfiction/fandom groups. Unfortunately: 1. Despite repeatedly mentioning his association with BU, it appears he never got IRB approval. 2. This research wasn't even for a project at BU; it was for a privately published book. (A book titled, incidentally, Rule 34: What Netporn Teaches Us About The Brain. I am not making this up.)
This prompts a question aside from this disastrous case: What IRB obligations does one have if one's research is not funded by an institution and one makes no claims of affiliation or support for that research? (Obviously, not the case in this instance.) It could still be bad research/ethics, but I believe the IRB was originally intended to apply to Federally funded research, now typically applies to all (non-humanities/journalistic) research at a Federally funded institution, but does it touch upon even loose affiliations?
I don't know what kinds of official policies exist, but I've often been advised that regardless of funding, if I want to publish anything involving human subjects, I should get some kind of IRB approval because publishers/editors will shy away from any research that hasn't been vetted that way. On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Joseph Reagle <reagle@mit.edu> wrote:
On Wednesday 02 September 2009, Katy E. Pearce wrote:
a survey of various LiveJournal fanfiction/fandom groups. Unfortunately: 1. Despite repeatedly mentioning his association with BU, it appears he never got IRB approval. 2. This research wasn't even for a project at BU; it was for a privately published book. (A book titled, incidentally, Rule 34: What Netporn Teaches Us About The Brain. I am not making this up.)
This prompts a question aside from this disastrous case: What IRB obligations does one have if one's research is not funded by an institution and one makes no claims of affiliation or support for that research? (Obviously, not the case in this instance.) It could still be bad research/ethics, but I believe the IRB was originally intended to apply to Federally funded research, now typically applies to all (non-humanities/journalistic) research at a Federally funded institution, but does it touch upon even loose affiliations? _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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