Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research: Version 2.0 Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee

By Annette N. Markham, E. Buchanan. 2012

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Smart, Responsible, and Upper Caste Only: Measuring Caste Attitudes through Large-Scale Analysis of Matrimonial Profiles (2019, methodology): “In particular, precautions were taken to ensure the design, decisionmaking, data collection, and handling was done in an ethical manner according to recommended best practices and guidelines (Townsend and Wallace 2016; Mislove and Wilson 2018; Markham and Buchanan 2012).”
Using APIs for Data Collection on Social Media (2014, unknown): “ As argued by the Association of Internet Researchers (Ess and AoIR 2002; Markham and Buchanan 2012), ethical issues may vary with the research question, scope of data collection, and whether the intended analysis is centered on qualitative, in-‐depth…”
Ethical by Design: Ethics Best Practices for Natural Language Processing (2017, background): “The Association of Internet Researchers has published ethics guidelines (Markham and Buchanan, 2012), which have seen some adoption.5 Perhaps the most interesting empirical finding to date is a survey by Fort and Couillault (2016), who posed ethics-related questions to French and international…”
Ethical Issues in Conducting Qualitative Research in Online Communities (2015, background): “Ethical frameworks developed by national psychology bodies provide the parameters for this initial procedural ethics review, with AoIR documentation (Markham & Buchanan 2012) listing further considerations that apply to online research.”