[Air-L] Online research ethics

[Radhika Gajjala]

here again I agree with Lois
(did I call you another name on-list yesterday, Lois - cant remember -  
it was probably my sl avatar speaking and she got you mixed up with  
whoever she was IM ing at that time  - I/I/she/he should really stop  
multi-interfacing eh?;))
In fact - I like to get HSRB approval without actually terming it  
"auto-ethnography" - I describe it as a study in SL. This sort of  
thing - when/if it does not involve going into the teen grid on SL  
actually does not even require "full board" review I was told a while  
ago. But then- it seems we have a much more human IRB officer here on  
our campus who talks to us about the nuances of our research and  
suggests how we might articulate them in the proposal and so on.

r

On Mar 8, 2008, at 1:24 AM, Lois Ann Scheidt wrote:

> BUT again I am talking about application for human subjects
> approval not about the requirement that the subjects sign statements
> allowing themselves to be part of the research project.  In this case
> requiring signed consent forms would be massive overkill.