The war of desire and technology at the close of the mechanical age
The war of desire and technology at the close of the mechanical age
Remediation: understanding new media
Remediation: understanding new media
Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net
Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net
Virtualities: Television, Media Art, and Cyberculture
Virtualities: Television, Media Art, and Cyberculture
Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age
Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate
Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate
Personal and Social Navigation of Information Space
Personal and Social Navigation of Information Space
Regulating research: The problem of theorizing community on LambdaMOO
Ethics and Information Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Researching Personal Information on the Public Web: Methods and Ethics
Social Science Computer Review
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Most guidelines and proposalsfor Internet research ethics are based onregulations for human subjects research. In therelated research, Internet material is viewedas animate and described as people. Humanitiesresearchers have rarely been a part of thedebate about Internet research ethics and thepractices of these scholars have not been takeninto consideration when drafting most of theguidelines. This threatens to limit the kindsof Internet research that can be performed – critical strategies are particularlydiscouraged – and the ways that researchers andother users understand the Internet.Researchers who use human subjects models havenot fully acknowledged computer mediation, theconstructed aspects of Internetrepresentations, and the screen. If we viewInternet material as cultural production thenthe models for Internet research would be ArtHistory and Visual Culture, English andLiterary Studies, Film and Media Studies, Musicand Sound Studies, and Theatre and PerformanceStudies. A more complete integration of theseapproaches into Internet Studies – either as asole investigatory strategy or in tandem withother forms of inquiry – would changeresearchers' ethical questions. It would alsoshow instances in which human subjectsguidelines do not apply to complex Internetmaterial. It is imperative to demonstrate thatInternet material is not people because thisconception makes highly constructed words andimages seem natural and stereotypedrepresentations appear to be real.