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Thursday, October 11, 2001
http://chronicle.com/free/2001/10/2001101102t.htm Committee of Scholars Proposes Ethics Guidelines for Research in Cyberspace By JEFFREY R. YOUNG Proposed ethics guidelines for scholars who conduct research in cyberspace are set to be released today in a preliminary report from the Association of Internet Researchers. But the report also reveals disagreements on the lengths that researchers should go to in protecting the identities of online-research participants, especially those in public chat rooms. The report says that ethical guidelines for research using human subjects in other contexts should serve as a starting point. It states, for example, that researchers have "primary obligations" to do no harm, to protect the anonymity and confidentiality of subjects, and to obtain informed consent....
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