Research Agenda Workshop on Internet Research Ethics, December 14-16, 2001, Lancaster University, England

该奖项有助于支持研究人员参加一个关于互联网研究伦理的研讨会。四名美国学者将与三名英国/欧洲学者和研究人员会面，概述旨在建立互联网研究伦理的研究议程。将考虑传统的人体研究和在线研究与人体研究之间的相似和伦理相关的差异。之所以出现这样的差异，是因为互联网允许进行前所未有的各种研究，这引发了新的伦理问题。需要的是互联网研究的指导方针，这些指导方针的有效性真正是全球性的(正如全球媒体所要求的那样)，同时承认重要的文化和民族差异，这些差异可能需要具体的伦理准则。研讨会的参与者是根据他们作为互联网研究人员和伦理学家的专业知识挑选出来的，他们在互联网研究伦理问题上有广泛的工作经验。研讨会将与CEPE的参与者一起举办，并与他们进行互动，这些参与者是长期专注于计算机伦理的道德哲学家，因此提供了一个独特的适合于富有成效地参与工作坊提出的问题的受众。研讨会建立在最近为制定这种研究伦理原则所做的努力的基础上，包括在美国和国外制定的几项国家声明。它还建立在互联网研究人员协会伦理工作委员会(EWC)即将发布的报告的基础上，该报告试图对现有的分析和指导方针以及地方和全球互联网研究伦理的暂定建议进行首次综合。这期讲习班的预期成果包括在《伦理与信息技术》特刊上发表的一系列文章、在www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir/伦理/上公布的讲习班成果，以及促进许多实际成果，如关于在线人类研究的国家和国际准则或原则。

This award helps to support the participation of researchers in a workshop on internet research ethics. Four US-based scholars will meet with three U.K./European scholars and researchers to outline a research agenda directed towards establishing an ethics of Internet research. Similarities and ethically pertinent differences between traditional human subjects research and on-line research with human subjects will be considered. Such differences emerge because the Internet allows for varieties of research never before possible, raising new ethical questions. Needed are guidelines for Internet research that are genuinely global in their validity (as required for a global medium) while acknowledging important cultural and national differences that might require specific ethical codes. Workshop participants were chosen on the basis of their expertise both as internet researchers and ethicists who have worked extensively on the problems of Internet research ethics. The workshop will be held in conjunction and interaction with CEPE participants--moral philosophers who have long focussed on computer ethics hence providing an audience uniquely suited to engaging productively with the issues raised by the workshop.The workshop builds on recent efforts to develop such principles of research ethics, including several national statements developed in the United States and abroad. It also builds on the forthcoming report of the Ethics Working Committee (EWC) of the Association of Internet Researchers, which attempts a first synthesis of available analysis and guidelines and tentative proposals for local and global Internet research ethics. Expected outcomes of this workshop include a series of articles in a special issue of Ethics and Information Technology, workshop results posted on www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir/ethics/, and stimulation of much many practical outcomes such as national and international guidelines or principles governing human research on-line.