[Air-L] Research

[Mark Chen]

One question you will likely need to know the answer to is whether you need
to know the offscreen names and identities of these kids. With knowing who
they are, you'd definitely need consent and assent. With anonymous people,
consent will still probably be needed/is ethical since you're looking at
online identity (they are anonymous offscreen but not onscreen), but you may
be able to get approval for waiver of *written* consent. IE. it's possible
to get their consent from checking a box on a website or something rather
than collecting their signatures and offscreen names.

just my $.02... Do you have access to other IRB proposals from your research
institution that deals with online research?

mark

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:07 AM, kattie hogan <hogankattie at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I am currently a doctorate student and my interest is online adolescent
> identity performances.  My IRB is currently unsure about the types of
> consent I should obtain from these young people and whether parental consent
> must be obtained and how I would go about collecting those signatures.  I
> would like to work with 14-17 year olds from different geographic areas, so
> face to face interviews would be a challenge.  Any advice?  Thank you in
> advance
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