Hsin-liang Chen, University of Missouri-Columbia
Sheila Denn, Simmons College
Kenneth D Fleishmann, UMD
Jean Preer , Indiana
Barbara Wildemuth, UNC Chapel Hill
In this session, panelists outlined the issues related to using comments from online communities in research. Unfortunately (though not surprisingly), there are no hard and fast rules. It’s important to think through each of the IRB principles for these types of studies: autonomy, beneficence, and justice.
An interesting question from the audience was whether IRBs be collecting tools / standards for researchers? A: This panel thought it was not the IRB’s role; it’s the role of the faculty in the field.
Takeaways: I wish I could have taken away a checklist from this one, but there wasn’t one offered. Perhaps what I took away was an understanding of how individual each case is in this area, and the need to rigorously evaluate research protocols of social communities.
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