Report of the Working Party on Conducting Research on the Internet: Guidelines for ethical practice in psychological research online.

@book{citeulike:2938859, abstract = {The term Internet Mediated Research (IMR) covers a wide range of research activities ranging from purely observational studies to surveys and in vivo quantitative studies to highly structured and wellcontrolled experiments. These guidelines supplement, rather than replace, the general ethical principles of the British Psychological Society (BPS, 2006), to allow for the additional ethical and practical issues inherent in IMR. Depending on the research design, participants in IMR can be identifiable or anonymous; they can explicitly consent to participate, or they can be invisibly observed without their knowledge. These two key dimensions (level of identifiability and level of observation) form the basis of the guidance offered in this document. Ten issues inherent when researching online are discussed. These are: verifying identity; public/private space; informed consent; levels of control; withdrawal; debriefing; deception; monitoring; protection of participants and researchers; and data protection.}, address = {Leicester}, author = {Bartram, D. and Hagger-Johnson, G. and Hewson, C. and Joinson, A. and Mackintosh, B. and O'Dell, L. J. }, citeulike-article-id = {2938859}, keywords = {ethics, imr, internet, methodology, methods, online, psychology, research, web}, posted-at = {2008-06-28 10:13:07}, priority = {0}, publisher = {British Psychological Society}, title = {Report of the Working Party on Conducting Research on the Internet: Guidelines for ethical practice in psychological research online.}, year = {2007} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:2938859 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2938859 TI - Report of the Working Party on Conducting Research on the Internet: Guidelines for ethical practice in psychological research online. AD - Leicester PB - British Psychological Society N2 - The term Internet Mediated Research (IMR) covers a wide range of research activities ranging from purely observational studies to surveys and in vivo quantitative studies to highly structured and wellcontrolled experiments. These guidelines supplement, rather than replace, the general ethical principles of the British Psychological Society (BPS, 2006), to allow for the additional ethical and practical issues inherent in IMR. Depending on the research design, participants in IMR can be identifiable or anonymous; they can explicitly consent to participate, or they can be invisibly observed without their knowledge. These two key dimensions (level of identifiability and level of observation) form the basis of the guidance offered in this document. Ten issues inherent when researching online are discussed. These are: verifying identity; public/private space; informed consent; levels of control; withdrawal; debriefing; deception; monitoring; protection of participants and researchers; and data protection. KW - ethics KW - imr KW - internet KW - methodology KW - methods KW - online KW - psychology KW - research KW - web AU - Bartram, D AU - Hagger-Johnson, G AU - Hewson, C AU - Joinson, A AU - Mackintosh, B AU - O'Dell, LJ PY - 2007/// ER -