Editing Designing Internet Research (Winter 2020) (section)

=== Week 1: Tuesday January 7: (I) Introduction and (II) Ethics ===
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==== Part I: Introduction and Framing ====

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'''Required Readings:'''

* Agre, Phil. 2004. “Internet Research: For and Against.” In ''Internet Research Annual: Selected Papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conferences 2000-2002'', edited by Mia Consalvo, Nancy Baym, Jeremy Hunsinger, Klaus Bruhn Jensen, John Logie, Monica Muerero, and Leslie Regan Shade. Vol. 1. New York: Peter Lang. http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/research.html. ''[[http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/research.html Available free online]]''
* Lazer, David, Alex Pentland, Lada Adamic, Sinan Aral, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Devon Brewer, Nicholas Christakis, et al. 2009. “Computational Social Science.” ''Science'' 323 (5915): 721–23. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1167742. ''[[https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1167742 Available through UW libraries]]''

'''Optional Reading:'''

* December, John. 1996. “Units of Analysis for Internet Communication.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 1 (4): 0–0. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.1996.tb00173.x. ''[[https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.1996.tb00173.x Available free online]]''
* Sandvig, Christian, and Eszter Hargittai. 2015. “How to Think about Digital Research.” In Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online, edited by Eszter Hargittai and Christian Sandvig, 1–28. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ''[[https://canvas.uw.edu/files/61061816/download?download_frd=1 Available in Canvas]]''

==== Part II: Ethics ====

'''Required Readings:'''

* franzke, aline shakti, Anja Bechmann, Michael Zimmer, and Charles M. Ess. 2020. “Internet Research: Ethical Guidelines 3.0.” Association of Internet Researchers. https://aoir.org/reports/ethics3.pdf. ''[[https://aoir.org/reports/ethics3.pdf Available free online]]''

To frame a conversation around research ethics, lets read this piece:

* Kramer, Adam D. I., Jamie E. Guillory, and Jeffrey T. Hancock. 2014. “Experimental Evidence of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion through Social Networks.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (24): 8788–90. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320040111. ''[[https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320040111 Available through UW libraries]]''

And these pieces that are all vaguely in response to it:

* Carr, Nicholas. 2014. “The Manipulators: Facebook’s Social Engineering Project.” The Los Angeles Review of Books, September 14, 2014. http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/manipulators-facebooks-social-engineering-project/. ''[Available free online]''
* [Skim page to get a sense of the backlash] Grimmelmann, James. 2014. “The Facebook Emotional Manipulation Study: Sources.” The Laboratorium (blog). June 30, 2014. http://laboratorium.net/archive/2014/06/30/the_facebook_emotional_manipulation_study_source. ''[[http://laboratorium.net/archive/2014/06/30/the_facebook_emotional_manipulation_study_source Available free online]]''
* Bernstein, Michael. 2014. “The Destructive Silence of Social Computing Researchers.” Medium (blog). July 7, 2014. https://medium.com/@msbernst/the-destructive-silence-of-social-computing-researchers-9155cdff659. ''[[https://medium.com/@msbernst/the-destructive-silence-of-social-computing-researchers-9155cdff659 Available free online]]''
* Lampe, Clifford. 2014. “Facebook Is Good for Science.” The Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs: The Conversation (blog). July 8, 2014. http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/07/08/facebook-is-good-for-science/. ''[[http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/07/08/facebook-is-good-for-science/ Available free online]]''
* Hancock, Jeffrey T. 2018. “The Ethics of Digital Research.” The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication, April. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460518.013.25. ''[[https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460518.013.25 Available through UW libraries]]''

'''Optional Readings:'''

* Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. 2014. “The Belmont Report. Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research.” http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/belmont.html. ''[[http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/belmont.html Available free online]]''
* Frankel, Mark S., and Sanyin Siang. 1999. “Ethical and Legal Aspects of Human Subject Research on the Internet.” Workshop Report. Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science. ''[[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sanyin_Siang/publication/268296040_Ethical_and_Legal_Aspects_of_Human_Subjects_Research_on_the_Internet/links/5632302008ae0530378fd404/Ethical-and-Legal-Aspects-of-Human-Subjects-Research-on-the-Internet.pdf Available free online]]''