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Discussion Questions

Closely read the privacy policies of three social media websites or apps. Is it reasonable to consider the comments and posts on these platforms to be in the public domain? Why or why not?

What impact will your research project have on the community from which participants are drawn?

How would you apply the concept of informed consent to your own research?

Web Resources

2012 AoIR report “Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research: Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee” (http://aoir.org/reports/ethics2.pdf)

The APA’s report “Psychological Research Online: Opportunities and Challenges” (www.apa.org/science/leadership/bsa/internet/internet-report.aspx)

The British Psychological Society’s “Ethics Guidelines for Internet-Mediated Research” (www.bps.org.uk/system/files/Public%20files/inf206-guidelines-for-internet-mediated-research.pdf)

The Ethicist Blog from the Academy of Management (http://ethicist.aom.org)

The Office of Research Integrity, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (http://ori.hhs.gov). This federal government website provides not only federal policies and regulations but also training resources on what is and how to handle research misconduct, case summaries involving research misconduct that make for sobering reading, and free tools for detecting plagiarism.

The Davis–Madsen ethics scenarios on the Ethicist Blog from the Academy of Management: “Ethics in Research Scenarios: What Would YOU Do?” (http://ethicist.aom.org/2013/02/ethics-in-research-scenarios-what-would-you-do)

Developing a Research Proposal

Consider the ethical dimensions of the research proposal or proposals you are developing. Does it make use of human subjects? Is the data in the public or private domain? And does your data contain information that can be used to identify individual research participants?