Readings on ethics of digital research
Main reading:
Rebecca Eynon & Jenny Fry & Ralph Schroeder (2008)The Ethics of Internet Research, The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods pdf
Zimmer, M. (2010). But the data is already public: On the ethics of research in Facebook. Ethics & Information Technology, 12(4), 313-325. http://ezproxy.lib.ed.ac.uk/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=iih&AN=55018201&site=eds-live
Professional guidelines
Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee (Version 2.0) http://aoir.org/reports/ethics2.pdf on the AoIR ethics page
Report of the Working Party on Conducting Research on the Internet: Guidelines for ethical practice in psychological research online, British Psychological Society , 2007 link
ESOMAR guidelines on online, mobile, social media and other research https://www.esomar.org/knowledge-and-standards/codes-and-guidelines.php
Example of university ethics guidelines around digital research from Queens, Canada http://www.queensu.ca/ors/researchethics/GeneralREB/PoliciesandProcedures/digitaldatapolicy.pdf
Further reading
The controversial Facebook emotion study :
Kramer, A. D. I., Guillory, J. E., & Hancock, J. T. (2014). Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(24), 8788–90. doi:10.1073/pnas.1320040111
Complete AoIR ethics bibliography
Buchanan E (ed) (2004) Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies. IGI (http://www.igi-global.com/book/readings-virtual-research-ethics/858) This is an older book, but covers many topics - they are not available on this link, but you can find most for free with a quick search.
e.g. M. Bakardjieva et al (2004) User-Centered Internet Research: The Ethical Challenges in Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies.
Vayena E, Salathé M, Madoff LC, Brownstein JS (2015) Ethical Challenges of Big Data in Public Health. PLoS Comput Biol 11(2): e1003904. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003904
Papers in the Journal "Ethics & Information Technology"