En los últimos tiempos he estado trabajando en el tema de la ética en la investigación de Internet. Aquí van algunas referencias genéricas de guías éticas, y algunos artículos específicos que tratan la probelmática de la ética en de la investigación en el estudio de Internet.
Guías éticas para la investigación
AAA. (1998). Code of Ethics of the American Anthropological Association: American Anthropological Association. En URL: http://www.aaanet.org/committees/ethics/ethcode.htm
ASA. (1999). Ethical Guidelines for Good Research Practice. United Kingdom: Association of Social Anthropology. En URL: http://www.theasa.org/ethics/guidelines.htm
ISA. (2001). Code of Ethics: International Sociological Association. En URL: http://www.isa-sociology.org/about/isa_code_of_ethics.htm
NAPA. (1988). NAPA Ethical Guidelines: National Association for the Practice of Anthropology. En URL: http://www.practicinganthropology.org/about/?section=ethical_guidelines
NESH. (2001). Guidelines for research ethics in the social sciences, law and the humanities. Norway: The National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (NESH).
Ess, C. (2002). Ethical decision-making and Internet research: Recommendations from the AoIR ethics working committee: Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). En URL: www.aoir.org/reports/ethics.pdf
Bibliografía seleccionada
Allen, C. (1996). What’s wrong with the “Golden Rule”? Conundrums of conducting ethical research in cyberspace. Information Society, 12, 175-187.
Bakardjieva, M., & Feenberg, A. (2001). Involving the Virtual Subject: conceptual, methodological an ethical dimensions. Journal of Ethics and Information Technology, 2(4), 233-240.
Bassett, E. H., & O’Riordan, K. (2002). Ethics of Internet Research: Contesting the Human Subjects Research Model. Ethics and Information Technology, 4(3), 233-247.
Bromseth, J. C. H. (2002). Public places – public activities? Methodological approaches and ethical dilemmas in research on computer mediated communication contexts. Paper presented at the Skikt-Researchers’ Conference.
Buchanan, E. A. (2004). Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies. Information Science Pub.
Cavanagh, A. (1999). Research Methodology Online Behaviour in Public?: Ethics in Online Ethnography. Cybersociology, 6.
Elgesem, D. (2002). What is special about the ethical issues in online research? Ethics and Information Technology, 4(3), 195-203.
Estalella, A., & Ardèvol, E. (2007). Ética de campo: hacia una ética situada para la investigación etnográfica de internet. Forum Qualitative Social Research, 8(3).
Frankel, M. S., & Siang, S. (1999). Ethical and Legal Aspects of Human Subjects Research on the Internet: A Report of a Workshop. Washington: AAAS.
Hudson, J. M., & Bruckman, A. (2004). “Go Away”: Participant Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research. The Information Society, 20, 127-139.
King, S. (1996). Researching internet communities: proposed ethical guidelines for the reporting of results. The Information Society, 12(2), 119-129.
Sudweeks, F., & Rafaeli, S. (1996). How do you get a hundred strangers to agree: Computer mediated communication and collaboration. Computer networking and scholarship in the 21st century university, 115-136.