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Christine Hine - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Internet Research and the Sociology of Cyber-Social-Scientific Knowledge
    The Information Society, 2005
    Co-Authors: Christine Hine
    Abstract:

    Perspectives from the sociology of scientific knowledge are deployed to explore the birth of Internet research, focusing in particular on the development of methodological approaches. For a Researcher based in the sociology of scientific knowledge, being an Internet Researcher has been a vivid opportunity to experience at firsthand a phenomenon usually studied from the outside. The article begins by assessing some models of the process of scientific change. Characterizing Internet research as new has been a potent resource for enrolling Researchers into the field and positioning research responses. The development of virtual methods for doing social research illustrates the process of methodological innovation in social science and the negotiation of methodological adequacy. Methodological discussions have been enlivened by the advent of the Internet as an object of study. Internet research has arguably been a valuable reflexive opportunity for the traditional disciplines that have fed its development.

  • Internet research and the sociology of cyber-social-scientific knowledge
    Information Society, 2005
    Co-Authors: Christine Hine
    Abstract:

    Perspectives from the sociology of scientific knowledge are de- ployed to explore the birth of Internet research, focusing in par- ticular on the development of methodological approaches. For a Researcher based in the sociology of scientific knowledge, being an Internet Researcher has been a vivid opportunity to experience at firsthand a phenomenon usually studied from the outside. The ar- ticle begins by assessing some models of the process of scientific change. Characterizing Internet research as new has been a potent resource for enrolling Researchers into the field and positioning re- search responses. The development of virtual methods for doing social research illustrates the process of methodological innovation in social science and the negotiation of methodological adequacy. Methodological discussions have been enlivened by the advent of the Internet as an object of study. Internet research has arguably been a valuable reflexive opportunity for the traditional disciplines that have fed its development. Keywords

Sarah Stewart - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Internet research in midwifery: Practical considerations and challenges
    The British Journal of Midwifery, 2017
    Co-Authors: Sarah Stewart
    Abstract:

    The Internet is an exciting tool for midwifery research; however there are a number of unique challenges that must be addressed. The global and transient nature of the Internet sometimes makes it difficult for the Researcher to ensure best practice, but international guidelines provide direction in dealing with these issues. The Internet Researcher must ensure anonymity and confidentiality, as well as gain informed consent from research participants. Copyright and intellectual property regulations must be observed, rules of online communities should be respected and an endeavour must be made to ensure that research results are disseminated to all the study participants.

Natasha Whiteman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Ethical Stances in (Internet) Research
    Undoing Ethics, 2011
    Co-Authors: Natasha Whiteman
    Abstract:

    This chapter explores the ethical destabilisation that the development of the Internet and related new media technologies has provoked, an unsettling of ethical expectations and assumptions that is felt by both Researchers and Internet users. Examining Researchers’ responses to the challenges of conducting research in online environments, the chapter considers how the idea of an ‘ethical’ Internet Researcher has emerged in this work. It then explores moves towards localised and contingent research ethics in recent writing about online and offline research, and considers how these moves relate to the institutionalisation of ethical guidance and regulation of research in academic contexts. The chapter closes with an introduction to the author’s study of two online fan communities – a study that underpins the discussion of ethics in the chapters that follow – and a description of the key ethical issues that were faced during the project.

Carolyn Davis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • some experiences of an Internet Researcher
    Audiovisual librarian, 1996
    Co-Authors: Carolyn Davis
    Abstract:

    L'auteur nous fait part de son experience de chercheur via Internet sur les serveurs des bibliotheques de recherche. Elle evoque ensuite les differences pour le chercheur entre les publications traditionnelles et celles sur sources electroniques de facon a mettre en valeur le cyberespace.