[Air-L] Ethics in online virtual worlds

[Ulf-Dietrich Reips]

Hi Kevin,
I'd be interested in the ethics board's reasoning behind their 
request. Does it have to do with the content of your research, i.e. 
that you are interested in individuals' experiences with avatars 
rather than avatars per se?

An excellent chapter on research ethics is
Ess, C. (2007). Internet research ethics. In A. N. Joinson, K. Y. A. 
McKenna, T. Postmes & U.-D. Reips (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of 
Internet psychology (pp. 487-502). Oxford, UK: Oxford University 
Press.

Best --u

At 11:11 Uhr +1200 1.8.2007, Kevin Sherman wrote:
>I will be interviewing and observing avatars within Second Life as
>research for my phd.  I have been asked by my ethics board to obtain
>hard copy signature consent from my participants rather than online
>digital consent.  Can anyone direct me to literature pertaining to the
>practicalities of informed consent in online virtual worlds (mmogs,
>mmorpgs, second life, etc..) or discuss their own experience with this?
>
>Thank you,
>Kevin