[Air-L] For Your Consideration: The NEW AOIR Ethics Document

[Annette Markham]

ugh. sorry for the broken link:  The actual link for the ethics document
is: http://www.aoir.org/reports/ethics2.pdf

sigh,

annette


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Annette N. Markham, Ph.D.
Guest Professor, Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden
Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago
amarkham at gmail.com
http://markham.internetinquiry.org/
Twitter: annettemarkham



On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Annette Markham <amarkham at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Colleagues:
>
> Almost exactly ten years ago, the AOIR ethics committee sent a note to
> this mailing list asking for the AOIR members to endorse a new statement on
> ethical decision-making.  On behalf of the AIOR ethics committee, we are
> pleased to present Version 2.0 for your consideration.
>
> You might remember that we provided a draft version of this document last
> year. After collecting comments and then discussing the document at the
> AOIR conference in Seattle, we revised to the final form.  The Ethics
> Committee has approved this document. And the Executive Committee has
> endorsed it.  Now, we ask for your endorsement as a membership.
>
> The question we’d like you to answer is this:
>
> "Should AoIR endorse the ethics committee's new statement on ethical
> decision-making as its statement of principles of Internet research ethics,
> with the understanding that this statement is open to future revisions in
> light of additional ethical insight and/or new technological developments?"
>
> If you are a member of AOIR (and if you’re not, now’s a great time to
> consider joining!), please:
>
> a) review the new document
>
> http://www.aoir.org/documents/ethics-guidelines/ethics.pdf
>
> and then
>
> b) login to the members-only section of the AOIR website to vote on
> whether or not you would like AOIR membership to endorse it.
> https://aoir.org/welcomemembers/
>
> Voting is now open, and will close midnight, November 26, Eastern Standard
> Time, 2012.
>
> As always, we are grateful to the members of the ethics committee for
> their hard work, deliberation, and insight.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Annette Markham, incoming chair of the AOIR Ethics Committee
> Elizabeth Buchanan, outgoing chair of the AOIR ethics committee
> Alex Halavais, President of AOIR
>
> P.S.  If you have questions, additional commentary, or copy-editing
> corrections for the document, we welcome it via email to
> amarkham at gmail.com
>