[Air-L] Research

[Lois Scheidt]

Just a note to add to the conversation, you can and should apply for a
waiver from parental consent. The basic intent of parental consent is
that you get the parents consent before you contact the kids. Of
course in internet research this model is an impossible one as we
usually discover the kids first and can only contact the parents
through the kids. Once upon a time this process was difficult for some
IRBs to understand but not now when there has been quite a bit written
on the topic...including the CITI module on internet research which
suggests that "consent" processes should be waived for online research
since we can't be sure who is on the other end.

Lois Scheidt

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Julian Hopkins <reach at julianhopkins.net> wrote:
> A good place to start would be this:
> Ess, C. & AoIR ethics working committee, 2002. Ethical decision-making and
> Internet research: Recommendations from the aoir ethics working committee,
> Available at: www.aoir.org/reports/ethics.pdf [Accessed March 7, 2008].
>
> The ethics of online research has often been debated on this list, if you
> search the archives you may find answers to some of your questions.
>
> Regards,
> Julian
>
> ++++++++++
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> Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:07:27 -0700 (PDT)
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> 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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Lois Ann Scheidt
Doctoral Candidate - School of Library and Information Science,
Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA
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