Go Away” Participant Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research.pdf

下载文档

5
0
约 13页
2017-04-06 发布于江苏
举报
版权申诉
保障服务

Go Away” Participant Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research.pdf

1、本文档共13页，可阅读全部内容。
2、有哪些信誉好的足球投注网站（book118）网站文档一经付费（服务费），不意味着购买了该文档的版权，仅供个人/单位学习、研究之用，不得用于商业用途，未经授权，严禁复制、发行、汇编、翻译或者网络传播等，侵权必究。
3、本站所有内容均由合作方或网友上传，本站不对文档的完整性、权威性及其观点立场正确性做任何保证或承诺！文档内容仅供研究参考，付费前请自行鉴别。如您付费，意味着您自己接受本站规则且自行承担风险，本站不退款、不进行额外附加服务；查看《如何避免下载的几个坑》。如果您已付费下载过本站文档，您可以点击这里二次下载。
4、如文档侵犯商业秘密、侵犯著作权、侵犯人身权等，请点击“版权申诉”（推荐），也可以打举报电话：400-050-0827(电话支持时间：9:00-18:30)。

Go Away” Participant Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research

The Information Society, 20: 127–139, 2004 Copyright c? Taylor Francis Inc. ISSN: 0197-2243 print / 1087-6537 online DOI: 10.1080/01972240490423030 “Go Away”: Participant Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research James M. Hudson and Amy Bruckman College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA In this article we present an empirical study aimed at better understanding the potential for harm when conducting research in chatrooms. For this study, we entered IRC chatrooms on the ICQ network and posted one of three messages to tell participants that we were recording them: a recording message, an opt-in message, or an opt-out message. In the fourth condition, we entered the cha- troom but did not post a message. We recorded and analyzed how subjects responded to being studied. Results of a regression analysis indicate significantly more hostility in the three conditions where we said something than in the control condition. We were kicked out of 63.3% of the chatrooms we entered in the three message con- ditions compared with 29% of the chatrooms in the control con- dition. There were no significant differences between any of these three conditions. Notably, when given a chance to opt in, only 4 of 766 potential subjects chose to do so. Results also indicate signifi- cant effects for both size and the number of moderators. For every 13 additional people in a chatroom, the likelihood getting kicked out was cut in half. While legal and ethical concerns are distinct, we conclude by arguing that studying chatrooms constitutes hu- man subjects research under U.S. law, but that a waiver of consent is appropriate in most cases as obtaining consent is impracticable. Keywords chatrooms, ethics, informed consent, IRB, online research, waiver of consent Learning what will in fact benefit may require exposing persons to risk. The problem posed by these imperatives is to decide when it is justifiable to seek certain benefits despite