Study Session - Ethics and Legality of Internet Research

Ethics and Legality of Internet Research

Research online brings similar ethical challenges as offline research, but certain issues can be magnified. For example, when is Twitter data really ‘public’ Zimmer, M. (2010)., what should be the ethic research standards of academics compared to commercial firms? This session will use the ethics documents of the British Psychological Society and the Association of Internet researchers and other as the starting point to understand how different types of research present ethical challenges, and the types of care research thus need to take in commissioning or design research.

Read the main text in the reading list, and at least one of the Ethics codes, and post a short summary of one issue of interest on the Discussion Board