Index

The Ethics of Online Research

ISBN: 978-1-78714-486-6, eISBN: 978-1-78714-485-9

ISSN: 2398-6018

Publication date: 12 December 2017

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Citation

(2017), "Index", Woodfield, K. (Ed.) The Ethics of Online Research (Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity, Vol. 2), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 243-247. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2398-601820180000002010

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Copyright © 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited


INDEX

Index

Abuse
, 47, 148

Accessing data
, 58, 194

Acts
, 63, 82, 88, 99, 103, 142, 144, 148, 174, 218, 241

Agreements

convey consent
, 122

document
, 110

terms conditions
, 102

user license
, 133–134

Anonymity
, 33–34

Anonymization
, 231

AoIR. See Association and the Association of Internet Researchers

Application Programming Interface
, 146, 155, 225

Apps
, 66, 73, 99, 119, 135–142, 136, 137, 138, 145, 147, 149, 155

Association and the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
, 30, 31

Beneficence
, 163–164, 177–178

Big data
, 5–6, 15, 25, 34, 50–51, 105, 107, 136, 140–141, 142, 143, 153, 154, 156–157, 165–166, 182, 184–186, 194

British Educational Research Association (BERA)
, 29–31, 30, 207

British Psychological Society (BPS)
, 30

British Society of Criminology (BSC)
, 30

Cardiff Online Social Media Observatory (COSMOS)
, 28, 50, 166, 171, 206, 231, 236

Challenges, environmental
, 56

Co-creation of data
, 70

Commercial firms
, 70

Communication

human
, 240

location-aware mobile
, 155

one-to-one
, 111

organizational
, 25

prioritize discreet
, 174

Communication data
, 69

Communication online
, 176

Communities

computer-mediated
, 5

local
, 139

physical
, 76

scientific
, 148

transgender
, 72

virtual
, 25

Computer Supported Cooperative Work
, 50, 185

Computer-transmitted messages
, 5

Confidentiality
, 33–34

Consent
, 116–117

allowing
, 223

direct
, 27, 47

gain
, 40, 59, 102, 125

individual’s
, 240

obtaining
, 74, 116, 123, 172

one-off
, 74

seeking
, 239

Content

abusive
, 172, 174

anonymise
, 233

classifying
, 34

dynamic
, 121

forward
, 37

informed
, 86

masking
, 211

nonpublic
, 52

personal
, 40

positive
, 99

republish
, 229

third-party
, 68

visual
, 74

Credibility
, 116–117

Data

created
, 17

Data analysis
, 146, 167

Data confidentiality
, 102–103

Data extraction
, 9, 135–136

Data formats
, 75–76

Data handling issues
, 65

Data minimization
, 209, 214, 224–226, 225, 234

Data ownership
, 3, 14, 24, 38, 68

Data protection (DP)
, 33, 35, 50, 65, 209, 211, 213, 220, 235–236, 240

Data Protection Act (DPA)
, 29–30, 206, 211, 213, 226, 230–231, 233

Dataset
, 8, 86, 97, 103–104, 149–150, 164, 167–168, 197, 200, 227–228

Data sharing
, 161, 165, 166, 169, 170

Data source

modern
, 8

potential
, 140

primary
, 101

secondary
, 1

tourism
, 158

Data storage
, 103

Digital activities
, 54, 136, 140

Digital age
, 156

Digital context
, 56–57, 64, 75

Digital data
, 18, 28, 48, 53–54, 58, 65–66, 69–71, 73, 75

archived
, 59

data authorship and ownership
, 65–69

data production
, 69

individual
, 66

new forms of
, 13, 21

observation-based
, 69

research transparency
, 70–71

Digital environment
, 58–60

Digital host/supplier’s credentials
, 65

Digital research

ethics
, 56

naive
, 75

reassessing ethics in
, 71–76

social
, 150

Digital research arena
, 60

Digital research context
, 54

Digital research environment
, 55, 60, 64

Digital research methods
, 70, 77

Digital research territory
, 54

Digital social research
, 47, 78, 135, 143, 146, 148–149, 154–155

Digital’s reach
, 61–64

Digital story telling
, 151–153

Digital technologies
, 8, 10, 54, 56–58, 65, 68–69, 76, 136, 140, 151, 239

Digital technology
, 8

DP. See Data protection

DPA. See Data Protection Act

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
, 190

e-mail
, 1

Emotional contagion
, 106, 182–183, 185

End-User Licensing Agreement (EULA)
, 118–119

Environments

computer-supported social
, 125

cultural
, 14

digitalized
, 68, 72

nondigital
, 58–60, 69, 75

virtual
, 3, 125

ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council)
, 14–15, 21, 28, 32–33, 50, 56, 112, 129, 133, 167, 190, 206, 212

Ethical Act
, 165

Ethical approach
, 27–28, 49, 137, 190, 201, 205, 213

Ethical challenges
, 6–7, 13, 154, 159–163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181, 183–185, 187

Ethical disruptions
, 16

Ethical practicalities
, 100–104

Ethical protocols
, 136, 143

Ethical standards
, 55, 205, 209, 213

Ethics
, 82, 95

digital research
, 54, 56

eResearch
, 51

human research
, 158

open source
, 24

Ethics challenges
, 53, 65, 69, 71, 76

Ethics committees
, 20, 23, 158, 190, 196, 205

European Society for Opinion and Market Research (ESOMAR)
, 30

Facebook
, 10, 12, 81–82, 84–87, 90, 99–100, 126, 139–140, 145–146, 160, 166, 180–181, 185, 189–191, 231

emotion contagion
, 180–182

emotion study
, 99–100

Feminist research
, 137, 142, 153

Games
, 114, 119–120, 124–125, 127

Garth’s approach
, 139

Google
, 33, 70–71, 77, 223, 237–238

Harm

avoiding
, 234

bodily
, 30

individual
, 164

physical
, 73, 241

potential
, 47, 72, 95, 102, 113, 147, 226, 233–234, 241

psychological
, 34, 47, 72, 241

social
, 73, 76

Human participants
, 97, 100, 109–112, 111–112, 114, 116, 238

Human subjects research
, 162–163

Informed consent
, 32, 45–46, 102, 112–113

Initial steps
, 101

Interdisciplinarity
, 16, 22, 23

Internet

democratization of
, 2

Internet research
, 160, 163

Ipsos Mori report
, 92–95

Market Research Society (MRS)
, 32

‘Natural’ social interactions
, 237

Negotiating consent
, 114–116

New Social Media, New Social Science (NSMNSS)
, 28, 196

Online communications
, 1, 8

Online community
, 6

Online environment
, 239

Participant management
, 65

Participant recruitment
, 149–151

Participant researcher/research relationship
, 65

Participants and researchers, harm and risk to
, 34–35

Participant vulnerability
, 64

Potential participants
, 101

Privacy infringement
, 48

Privacy law
, 29

Privacy rights
, 49

Public attitudes
, 35–36

Public ethics
, 213–219

Qualitative findings
, 37–38

Research context
, 140–142

Researcher
, 57–58

Research ethics
, 162, 163, 171, 184

Research ideas
, 137–139

Research integrity
, 95, 163, 165, 169, 170, 182, 184

Research participant
, 57–58

Research user
, 57–58

Safety
, 38, 49

Scale and granularity
, 19

Smartphone applications
, 136

Social Data Science Lab
, 41

Social data science lab survey
, 36–37

Social life of data
, 18

Social media
, 2, 5, 28, 29–35, 80–82, 160, 161, 162

anonymity
, 194

authentic informed consent
, 123–126

awareness and views of
, 38–41

concern within
, 192–196

data
, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22

human participants in
, 110–114

informed consent
, 193

online consent process
, 122–123

private vs. public
, 192–193

and qualitative research
, 114–118

research
, 56, 71, 72, 74

research, and ethics
, 191–192

risk of harm
, 195

sharing data
, 163–165

in social research
, 165–166

verifying agreements online
, 119–122

Social Media Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
, 29

Social networking
, 111

Social networking services (SNS)
, 240

Terms and conditions (T&Cs)
, 239

Terms of service agreements (TOS)
, 120

Trust
, 116–117

Twitter
, 28, 31, 34, 37, 41, 44, 46, 48, 82–88, 160

with aggregated data
, 166–169

and journal publication
, 169–171

publishing unanonymized qualitative data
, 170–180

User-generated content
, 137, 145, 145

User profiles
, 142–149

Virtual environments
, 3

Virtual replication
, 3

Web
, 16

Web science
, 16

World Wide Web
, 1, 2