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与互联网研究伦理研讨会。 四名美国学者将与三名英国学者会面/欧洲学者和研究人员将概述一项旨在建立互联网研究伦理的研究议程。 将考虑传统人类受试者研究和人类受试者在线研究之间的相似性和伦理相关差异。 这种差异的出现是因为互联网允许前所未有的各种研究，提出了新的伦理问题。 互联网研究所需要的是在其有效性方面真正具有全球性的指导方针（正如全球性媒体所要求的那样），同时承认可能需要具体道德守则的重要文化和国家差异。 讲习班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选择的，他们广泛研究了互联网研究伦理问题。 研讨会将与CEPE的参与者-长期关注计算机伦理学的道德哲学家-共同举办并进行互动，从而提供了一个特别适合于富有成效地参与研讨会提出的问题的听众。 本报告还以互联网研究人员协会伦理工作委员会（EWC）即将发表的报告为基础，该报告首次综合了现有的分析和指导方针，并就地方和全球互联网研究伦理提出了初步建议。 该研讨会的预期成果包括在《伦理与信息技术》特刊上发表一系列文章，在www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir/ethics/上公布研讨会成果，并激励产生许多实际成果，如管理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.