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I know there have been instances in which persons observed in online research have not wished to be anonymous, but rather have insisted on having their online writing cited and credited to them as authors. But for the life of me I can't recall a reference in scholarly literature for this phenomenon. Would anyone be willing to provide one? Thanks! -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA ----------------------------------------------- 2011-12 Director, Luther Study Centre 23 Haslemere Road Nottingham NG8 5GJ United Kingdom ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain
Two cases off the top of my head would be: Terri Senft in interviews for my project Life Online (mid 1990s, published in 1998 by Alta Mira) The webcam girls interviewed by Terri Senft for her project (also late 1990s, published in 2009(?) by Peter Lang) There are many more but these would give you a couple of references, at least. On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Mark D. Johns <mjohns@luther.edu> wrote:
I know there have been instances in which persons observed in online research have not wished to be anonymous, but rather have insisted on having their online writing cited and credited to them as authors. But for the life of me I can't recall a reference in scholarly literature for this phenomenon. Would anyone be willing to provide one? Thanks! -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA ----------------------------------------------- 2011-12 Director, Luther Study Centre 23 Haslemere Road Nottingham NG8 5GJ United Kingdom ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain _______________________________________________ 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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For my PhD, I arranged via my Uni's ethical review process to offer participants (Flickr users) this option (full attribution, username, or anonymity) ahead of time. I didn't see why people I was talking to about their public creative practice should be anonymised by default and felt it would run counter to the way they saw their practice (i.e. as authors, not 'research subjects'). In almost all cases I was right. See also this early paper on the topic by Amy Bruckman: Bruckman, A. (2001) Studying the amateur artist: a perspective on disguising data collected in human subjects research on the Internet. Paper presented at Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries (CEPE), Lancaster University, On 3/07/11 3:37 AM, "Mark D. Johns" <mjohns@luther.edu> wrote:
I know there have been instances in which persons observed in online research have not wished to be anonymous, but rather have insisted on having their online writing cited and credited to them as authors. But for the life of me I can't recall a reference in scholarly literature for this phenomenon. Would anyone be willing to provide one? Thanks! -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA ----------------------------------------------- 2011-12 Director, Luther Study Centre 23 Haslemere Road Nottingham NG8 5GJ United Kingdom ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain _______________________________________________ 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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(I'm coming in late to this conversation - I've just returned from a holiday with no internet!) We had this situation in terms of anonymising groups who participated in my PhD project. While most online groups preferred to remain anonymous, one wanted to be publicly named and associated with the research. We were not fully prepared for this situation in terms of our ethics procedures, so we acknowledged the group's participation generally rather than specifically associating their identity with their data (not completely ideal - we are looking to further research using a partnership model). We discuss the ethical issues of this situation in our IJIRE paper: http://ijire.net/issue_3.1/6_barratt_lenton.pdf I agree with Jean that people should have the choice, however it became trickier due to the subject matter (illicit drug use) and potential legal/criminal/social risks of identification, which I think was also Rutter and Smith's rationale for not providing the option of attribution to their research participants. Cheers Monica Monica Barratt http://monicabarratt.net On 4 July 2011 11:11, Jean Burgess <je.burgess@qut.edu.au> wrote:
For my PhD, I arranged via my Uni's ethical review process to offer participants (Flickr users) this option (full attribution, username, or anonymity) ahead of time. I didn't see why people I was talking to about their public creative practice should be anonymised by default and felt it would run counter to the way they saw their practice (i.e. as authors, not 'research subjects'). In almost all cases I was right.
See also this early paper on the topic by Amy Bruckman:
Bruckman, A. (2001) Studying the amateur artist: a perspective on disguising data collected in human subjects research on the Internet. Paper presented at Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries (CEPE), Lancaster University,
On 3/07/11 3:37 AM, "Mark D. Johns" <mjohns@luther.edu> wrote:
I know there have been instances in which persons observed in online research have not wished to be anonymous, but rather have insisted on having their online writing cited and credited to them as authors. But for the life of me I can't recall a reference in scholarly literature for this phenomenon. Would anyone be willing to provide one? Thanks! -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA ----------------------------------------------- 2011-12 Director, Luther Study Centre 23 Haslemere Road Nottingham NG8 5GJ United Kingdom ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain _______________________________________________ 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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