[Air-L] IRB and blogs + invitation

[Ulf-Dietrich Reips]

Michael:
thank you very much for sharing these links and 
materials. Very interesting indeed!

Re Thomas Johnson: If I understand correctly, the 
original question is about a practically useless 
(and time consuming) request by a Human Subjects 
Committee. The Committee apparently does not 
understand the power of search engines. It simply 
makes no sense to use pseudonyms, if accessible 
material is quoted literally.

We had a related case when I was a member of a 
faculty e-learning commission at the University 
of Zurich. A professor wrote an article in the 
university newsletter, in which she was trying to 
show that use of electronic media leads to a 
deterioration of writing style, particularly with 
students. To that end she used several examples 
from online forums, including a forum almost 
exclusively used by University of Zurich 
students. She used pseudonyms for the posters she 
quoted, but one student in particular could later 
be identified by anyone who used her lengthy 
literal quote in a search.

Best --u



At 8:12 Uhr -0500 17.10.2010, Michael Zimmer wrote:
>And to complicate _this_ a bit more, Elizabeth 
>Buchanan, Montana Miller, John Palfry, and I 
>recently presented to the Secretary's Advisory 
>Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP) 
>on "The Internet in Human Subjects Research", 
>highlighting how the current guidance by OHRP 
>has considerable gaps wrt internet based 
>research.
>
>Details here:
>http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/sachrp/mtgings/mtg07-10/mtg07-10.html
>http://michaelzimmer.org/2010/07/20/presentation-research-ethics-in-the-2-0-era/
>
>For those at IR11, while it's likely too late to 
>register for the pre-conference workshop on 
>"Ethics and Internet Research Commons:  Building 
>a sustainable future", we are also holding a 
>roundtable on "Internet Research Ethics Digital 
>Library, Research Center, and Commons" on 
>Thursday at 11:40am-12:40pm.
>
>Please join us!
>
>-michael.
>


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