[Air-L] Ethical approval for online data collection?

[Christophe Prieur]

> should I go through the ethics
> process of getting approval and ethical review? How would this affect
> the validity and publishing potential of this data?

:oD

Well, this reminds me of a post from Barry Wellman on socnet mailing list
just yesterday, about research on 'terrorists' networks.

I guess these kinds of studies might be a good track to start looking for
journals not so aware of ethics...

Now let me be clear: everything above is a j-o-k-e.
Just to kindly suggest, like Sue just did, that your goals might have been
more clearly exposed.

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 Christophe Prieur        / prieur at liafa.jussieu.fr
 Sense, Orange Labs             / sociology of uses
 Liafa, University Paris-Diderot / graph algorithms