Web Survey Bibliography
Title The Tri-Council Policy Statement and Research in Cyberspace: Research Ethics, the Internet, and Revising a ‘Living Document’
Author Kitchin, H. A.
Source Journal of Academic Ethics, 1, 4, pp. 397-418
Year 2003
Database Kluwer Journals
Access date 20.07.2004
Abstract Increasingly, the Internet is proving to be an important research tool. Today, cyberspace affords researchers easy access to traditionally difficult to reach populations, a host of virtual communities, and a wealth of data created through computer-mediated-communication. This newfound research frontier brings with it, however, a multiplicity of ethical concerns, including: (1) whether the Internet constitutes a private or public space; (2) whether the human subject paradigm is appropriate when considering the ethics of Internet research; and (3) whether cyber participants/‘speakers-as-writers’ and communities should be guaranteed confidentiality and anonymity when researchers contain or consider them in research. This paper examines these specific ethical concerns as they relate to Canada's Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans, which, as yet, does not explicitly address ethics involved in Internet research. I propose that in large part the Internet is by definition a public site of activity, and as such, many posters cannot expect their texts to remain confidential, nor their names anonymous, and that the human subject paradigm is highly problematic in terms of regulating ethics involved in some research generated through new information technologies. This is most expressly the case with computer-mediated-communication, which, in light of the Tri-Council Policy Statement, can be viewed as theoretically akin to public entertainment and performance.
Access/Direct link Kluwer Journals (full text)
Year of publication2003
Bibliographic typeJournal article
Web Survey Bibliography - Standards, codes (430)
- ONLINE DATA COLLECTION – SOLUTION OR BAND-AID?; 2007; Crassweller, A., Williams, D., Thompson, I.
- Applications of the Document Object Model (DOM) in Web-Surveys; 2007; Neubarth, W., Kaczmirek, L.
- Interface Design and Testing for Electronic Self Administered Survey Forms using Excel; 2007; Farrell, E., Hewett, K., Rowley, T., Van Ede, L., Burnside, R.
- Automated data collection from internal Enterprise production systems ; 2007; Vik, T.
- Internet Surveys – Data Collection challenges for Statistics (Norway); 2007; Gløersen, R.
- Web-Based Research Tools and Techniques; 2007; Albrecht, A. C., Jones, D. G.
- Web Survey Design in ASP.Net 2.0: A Simple Task with One Line of Code; 2007; Liu, C.
- Responding to sensitive Questions in Surveys: A Comparison of Results from Online Panels, Face-to-Face...; 2007; Dayan, D., Schofield Paine, C., Johnson, A. J.
- Using Audio and Video Clips in Web Surveys — Feasibility and Impact on Data Quality; 2007; Fuchs, M., Funke, F.
- Introduction to using online surveys; 2007; Ritter, L. A., Sue, V. M.
- Fitting disposition codes to mobile phone surveys: experiences from studies in Finland, Slovenia and...; 2007; Callegaro, M., G., Buskirk, T. D., Vehovar, V., Kuusela, V., Piekarski, L. G.Steeh, C. G.
- Quality of Online Research: Does it Improve Results? ; 2007; Lindemann, M.
- Dynamic Forms: Online Surveys 2.0 ; 2007; Funke, F., Reips, U. -D.
- Online Research 2.0 » Join the MindVoyage ; 2007; Gadeib, A., Lichter, C.
- Using Change to Improve Navigation in Grid Questions ; 2007; Galesic, M., Tourangeau, R., Couper, M. P., Conrad, F. G.
- Documentation of Online Surveys ; 2007; Kaczmirek, L., Neubarth, W., Bandilla, W., Watteler, O.
- The Impact of Screen Size and Background Color on Response in Web Surveys ; 2007; Baker, R. P., Couper, M. P.
- Minimizing Respondent Effort increases Use of Definitions in Web Surveys; 2007; Peytchev, A., Conrad, F. G., Couper, M. P., Tourangeau, R.
- Non-Differentiation and Web-Based Survey Methods: An Experiment; 2007; Taylor, E.
- Universal Accessibility in Web Survey Design: Practical Guidelines for Implementation.; 2007; Harrison, H. L., Coburn, J.
- What They See Is What You Get: Nuts and Bolts of Web Surveys; 2006; Baker, R. P.
- Case-based Heuristics for Addressing Ethical Dilemmas in Internet-based Research; 2006; McKee, H., Porter, J.
- Ethical issues in longitudinal surveys; 2006; Lessof, C.
- Web Surveys and the new Disability Discrimination Act; 2005; Macer, T.
- The relevance of quality standards for international online access panels; 2005; Oliver, A. J.
- Survey Says...Or Does It? Fun with Statistics; 2005; Crawford, W.
- An overview of the ethics of cyber-space research and the implication for nurse educators; 2005; Haigh, C., Jones, N. A.
- Conducting Primary Research Online; 2005; Foy, A.
- The spam problem from the point of view of the working group NEON; 2005; Escher, C., von Heesen, B., Lipsmeier, G., Dallwitz-Wegner, D., Daiber, A.
- When the Ethic is Functional to the Method: The Case of E-Mail Qualitative Interviews; 2004; Olivero, N., Lunt, P.
- A New Era for Telephone Surveys; 2004; Steeh, C. G.
- Collecting Research Data Online: Implications for Extension Professionals; 2004; O'Neill, B.
- International Differences in Information Privacy Concerns: A Global Survey of Consumers; 2004; Bellman, S., Johnson, E. O., Kobrin, S., Lohse, G.
- Online Data Collection from Video Game Players: Methodological Issues; 2004; Wood, R. T. A., Griffiths, M. D., Eatough, V.
- Internet research: privacy, ethics and alienation: an open source approach; 2004; Berry, D. M.
- Recruitment of research participants through the Internet; 2004; Im, E. O., Chee, W.
- The Ethics of Conducting E-Mail Surveys; 2004; Krishnamurthy, S.
- Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies; 2004; Buchanan, E. A.
- Methodological and Ethical Problems in Analysis of Web Site Authors; 2004; Petric, G.
- Ethnography Online: ‘Natives’ Practising and Inscribing Community; 2004; Gatson, S. N., Zweerink, A.
- Internet research ethics in historical context; 2004; Ess, C.
- Legal issues of Internet research; 2004; Weiser, P.
- Internet Research Methods; 2004; Markham, A. N.
- Reading in Virutal Research Ethics; 2004; Anonymous
- Respect Thy Respondent Part II: Good Manners for Web surveys; 2004; Featherston, F., Moy, L.
- Addressing Trust In The Anonymity And Confidentiality Of Web Surveys Through Usability Testing; 2004; Fenlason, K., Lundby, K., Christianson DeMay, C.
- Psychological Research Online; 2004; Kraut, R., Olson, J., Banaji, M., Bruckman, A., Cohen, J., Couper, M. P.
- Human Research And Data Collection Via The Internet; 2004; Birnbaum, M. H.
- Ethical Dilemmas in Research on Internet Communities; 2004; Flicker, S., Haans, D., Skinner, H.
- Ensnaring Webs and Nets: ethical issues in Internet-based research; 2004; Cotton, A. H.