Readings in virtual research ethics : issues and controversies / Elizabeth A. Buchanan, editor

Includes bibliographical references and index

Foundations of Virtual Research Ethics -- Virtual Research Ethics: A Content Analysis of Surveys and Experiments Online / Blaine F. Peden, Douglas P. Flashinski -- Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research: Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee / Charles Ess, Steven Jones -- Ethics in Internet Ethnography / Malin Sveningsson -- Conducting Congruent, Ethical, Qualitative Research in Internet-Mediated Research Environments / M. Maczewski, M.-A. Storey, M. Hoskins -- Media, Messages and Ethics? -- Blurring the Boundaries: Ethical Considerations for Online Research Using Synchronous CMC Forums / Danielle Lawson -- When the Ethic is Functional to the Method: The Case of E-Mail Qualitative Interviews / Nadia Olivero, Peter Lunt -- The Ethics of Conducting E-Mail Surveys / Sandeep Krishnamurthy -- Organizational Research Over the Internet: Ethical Challenges and Opportunities / W. Benjamin Porr, Robert E. Ployhart -- Researchers/Researched? Research Ethics in Practice -- Conducting Ethical Research Online: Respect for Individuals, Identities and the Ownership of Words / Lynne Roberts, Leigh Smith, Clare Pollock -- Ethics and Engagement in Communication Scholarship: Analyzing Public, Online Support Groups as Researcher/Participant-Experiencer / Mary K. Walstrom -- Peering into Online Bedroom Windows: Considering the Ethical Implications of Investigating Internet Relationships and Sexuality / Monica Whitty -- Co-Construction and Field Creation: Website Development as both an Instrument and Relationship in Action Research / Maximilian Forte -- What If You Meet Face to Face? A Case Study in Virtual/Material Research Ethics / David Clark -- Fact or Fiction: Notes of a Man Interviewing Women Online / Michael D. Ayers -- Online Research with Minors--Special Considerations? -- Studying Adolescents Online: A Consideration of Ethical Issues / Susannah R. Stern -- Virtual Youth Research: An Exploration of Methodologies and Ethical Dilemmas from a British Perspective / Magdalena Bober -- A Call to Researchers -- International Digital Studies: A Research Approach for Examining International Online Interactions / Kirk St. Amant -- User-Centered Internet Research: The Ethical Challenge / Maria Bakardjieva, Andrew Feenberg, Janis Goldie.

In higher education, institutional review boards are struggling to understand the new language of research protocols, new means of data collection and emerging ethical challenges surrounding the protection of human subjects. Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies focuses on the challenges facing researchers as they redefine the parameters of acceptable research practices. Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies provides an in-depth look at the emerging field of online research and the corresponding ethical dilemmas associated with it. Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies offers readers a strong cross-disciplinary look at such issues as informed consent, anonymity, subject selection, privacy, research relationships to subjects, public and private space online, among others through the various chapters. Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies provides readers with knowledge on how to conduct virtual research by studying cases and discussions of various types of research, from surveys to ethnographies, to interviews. Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies includes multi-disciplinary and international approaches to online research ethics through such fields as psychology, business, women's studies, English, education, communications, organizational management, in countries such as Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, England, Sweden, and the US.