Editing Internet Research Methods (Spring 2016) (section)

=== Week 1: Wednesday March 30: Ethics ===

'''Resources:'''

* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/35861026/download?download_frd=1 Week 1 Reading Note] — Read this first!

'''Required Readings:'''

* Association of Internet Researchers, Ethics Working Committee, 2011, “[http://aoirethics.ijire.net/aoirethicsprintablecopy.pdf Ethics Guidelines Review Draft].” ''[Free Online]'' ([http://aoirethics.ijire.net/ Browseable Web Version])
* Kramer, A. D. I., Guillory, J. E., & Hancock, J. T. (2014). [http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320040111 Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks.] Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(24), 8788–8790. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
* [Look Over Briefly] Grimmelmann, James. (2014) [http://laboratorium.net/archive/2014/06/30/the_facebook_emotional_manipulation_study_source The Facebook Emotional Manipulation Study: Sources]. ''[Free Online]''
* Carr, N. (2014, September 14). [http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/manipulators-facebooks-social-engineering-project/ The Manipulators: Facebook’s Social Engineering Project]. Retrieved March 26, 2015. ''[Free Online]''
* Bernstein, M. (2014, July 7). [https://medium.com/@msbernst/the-destructive-silence-of-social-computing-researchers-9155cdff659 The Destructive Silence of Social Computing Researchers]. Retrieved March 26, 2015. ''[Free Online]''
* Lampe, C. (2014, July 8). [http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/07/08/facebook-is-good-for-science/ Facebook Is Good for Science]. ''[Free Online]''
* Monroy-Hernández, Andrés, and Benjamin Mako Hill. (2016) "[https://canvas.uw.edu/files/35914734/download?download_frd=1 The Scratch Online Community Dataset.]" Working Paper. Seattle, Washington. — Read at least the ''Background & Summary'', ''Setting'', ''Defining Public Data'', and ''Research Ethics'' sections and skim the rest. Please also read the 
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/35914781/download?download_frd=1 Scratch Data Sharing Agreement] (Draft as of 2016-03-28)

'''Optional Readings:'''

* [http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/policy/belmont.html The Belmont Report]. (1979).
* American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999, “[http://www.aaas.org/page/ethical-and-legal-aspects-human-subjects-research-cyberspace Ethical and Legal Aspects of Human Subjects Research in Cyberspace].” ''[Free Online]''
* [http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf Digital Millenium Copyright Act] and these explanatory/commentary essays & sites:
** The [https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation's] [https://www.eff.org/issues/dmca page on the DMCA].
** Templeton, Brad's [http://www.templetons.com/brad/copyright.html A Brief Intro to Copyright] & [http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html 10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained]
** Sections on Copyright, Privacy, and Social Media in the “Internet Case Digest” of the [http://www.perkinscoie.com/casedigest/ Perkins Coie LLP “Case Digest” site].
* Amy Bruckman's two 2016 blog posts about researchers violating terms of Service (TOS) while doing academic research: [https://nextbison.wordpress.com/2016/02/26/tos/ Do Researchers Need to Abide by Terms of Service (TOS)? An Answer.] and [https://nextbison.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/tos2/ More on TOS: Maybe Documenting Intent Is Not So Smart]
* Narayanan, A., & Shmatikov, V. (2008). [http://doi.org/10.1109/SP.2008.33 Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets.] In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2008. SP 2008 (pp. 111–125). http://doi.org/10.1109/SP.2008.33 ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
* Markham, A. (2012). [http://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2011.641993 Fabrication as Ethical Practice.] Information, Communication & Society, 15(3), 334–353. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
* Trevisan, F., & Reilly, P. (2014). [http://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2014.889188 Ethical dilemmas in researching sensitive issues online: lessons from the study of British disability dissent networks.] Information, Communication & Society, 17(9), 1131–1146. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
* Bond, R. M., Fariss, C. J., Jones, J. J., Kramer, A. D. I., Marlow, C., Settle, J. E., & Fowler, J. H. (2012). [http://doi.org/10.1038/nature11421 A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization.] Nature, 489(7415), 295–298. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
* Bruckman, A., Luther, K., & Fiesler, C. (2015). [http://blog.kurtluther.com/pdf/bruckman_real_names.pdf When Should We Use Real Names in Published Accounts of Internet Research?] In Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online (pp. 243–259). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.