Editing Designing Internet Research (Spring 2022) (section)

=== Wednesday March 30: 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. {{avail-free|https://aoir.org/reports/ethics3.pdf}}

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. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320040111}}

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/. {{avail-free|http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/manipulators-facebooks-social-engineering-project/}}
* [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. {{avail-free|http://laboratorium.net/archive/2014/06/30/the_facebook_emotional_manipulation_study_source}}
* 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. {{avail-free|https://medium.com/@msbernst/the-destructive-silence-of-social-computing-researchers-9155cdff659}}
* 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/. {{avail-uw|http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/07/08/facebook-is-good-for-science/}}
* 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. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460518.013.25}}

'''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. {{avail-free|http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/belmont.html}}
* 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. {{avail-free|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}}