Personal internet archives and ethics:

Research Ethics

StineLomborg¹ 

关键词: internet research ethics;    perceived privacy;    social media;    the distance principle;    web archives;   

DOI  :  10.1177/1747016112459450

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

In its ethics guidelines, the Association of Internet Researchers advocates a bottom-up, case-based approach to research ethics, one that emphasizes that ethical judgement must be based on a sensible examination of the unique object and circumstances of a study, its research questions, the data involved, and the expected analysis and reporting of results, along with the possible ethical dilemmas arising from the case. This article clarifies and illustrates the mind-set and process of such a bottom-up approach to internet research ethics. Two ethics concepts to think with, namely ‘the distance principle’, and the notion of ‘perceived privacy’, are introduced and applied in a concrete empirical internet study, in which web archives based on personal communications on social media formed the main body of data. The empirical case example serves to highlight the unique challenges of internet research ethics, in light of the blurring boundaries between text and person, and between private and public on the inte...

【 授权许可】

CC BY