Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research: Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee

By Charles Melvin Ess, Steven G. Jones. 2004

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A corpus linguistics study of SMS text messaging (2009, background): “For example, ethical guidelines drafted by AoIR for electronic domains focus on regulating research into public online forums (Mann and Stewart 2000; Ess 2002) including Bulletin-Boards (Collot and Belmore 1996) and city-council emails (Hard af Segersteg 2002).”
CRITICAL QUESTIONS FOR BIG DATA (2012, background): “20 ethics of online data collection and analysis (Ess 2002).”
E-mail interviewing in qualitative research: A methodological discussion (2006, neutral): “With an estimated 800 million Internet users worldwide (Internet World Stats, 2005) and thousands of scholars utilizing the ease of access to many of these users, online research has become a ﬁeld in its own right, boasting a number of peer-reviewed journals (e.g., Social Research Update— http://www”
Accepting the challenges of social media research (2015, background): “Some scholarly associations have started publishing ethics guidelines for their research communities, such as the Association of Internet Researchers’ (AoIR) recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee (Markham and Buchanan, 2012).”