[Air-l] Great Ethical disasters in Internet Research?

[david silver]

ooh, interesting sounding thread!

like frank, i'm not sure if the study was an example of unethical research
rather than methodologically flawed research.  along those lines, in
addition to the notorious rimm report (for a great summary of the
controversy see http://www.fair.org/media-beat/950719.html) i'll add two
more:

1. Carnegie Mellon's HomeNet study

the study:
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/copetas/www/public/pr/aug31-98.html

reaction:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-3.4/featherstone.html

2. wall street "research" in pricing dot.com's valuations.  pick and
choose:  amazon.com, yahoo!, and my personal favorite, theglobe.com.  four
recent books explore this terrain in interesting ways:  cassidy's dot.con,
kuo's dot.bomb, ashbrook's the leap, and paternot's a very public
offering.

david silver

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