[Air-l] ethnography and ethics

Nancy Baym nbaym at ku.edu
Wed May 5 06:12:49 PDT 2004


And let us not forget to mention the AoIR ethics document created by 
an international team of internet scholars over a period of several 
years. It is available on our website http://aoir.org

Nancy


>At 06:53 PM 5/5/2004 +0930, you wrote:
>>I am trying to get my head around the issue of ethnography and ethics.
>
>There are situations in which covert research is justified, but many 
>other situations -- particularly online -- in which the overt 
>presence of a researcher his little, if any, impact on the behaviors 
>of the subjects and therefore on the quality of the research.
>
>Allow me to make (yet another) shameless plug for the new book, 
>Online Social Research: Methods, Issues, and Ethics, (Digital 
>Formations Series, Vol. 7 - Steve Jones, Series Editor), Edited by 
>Mark D. Johns, Shing-Ling Sarina Chen, and G. Jon Hall
>Peter Lang Publishers, New York  c 2004      ISBN 0-8204-6101-6
>
>-----
>Mark D. Johns, Ph.D.
>Asst. Prof. of Communication/Linguistics
>Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA
>http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/
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