[Air-L] Accessing data from closed groups on FB?

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

There are innumerable possible models of research design that would not
require informed consent in this situation.  Informed consent is usually
only required when there is some harm that must be agreed to, but it is
easy to conceive of any number of situations where this data collection
leads to nothing that requires informed consent.  It isn't ethically
anything, until you understand the whole design.  Also remember the ethical
standards are generated from different principles than harm in many
Scandinavian countries as noted in the first set of AoIR guidelines, so
your instincts of informed consent might not be quite fitting.  So let's
not 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' and instead try to answer the
specific question if we can.



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jeremy hunsinger
Associate Professor
Communication Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University

Collaboratory for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech
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