Ethical issues in qualitative research on internet communities

Informed consent, privacy, and confidentiality are basic ethical tenets of scientific research on people.12-14 To determine whether informed consent is required, you first have to decide whether postings on an internet community are "private" or "public" communications.

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Published inBMJ Vol. 323; no. 7321; pp. 1103 - 1105
Main Authors Eysenbach, Gunther, Till, James E
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London British Medical Journal Publishing Group 10.11.2001
British Medical Association
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
BMJ Publishing Group LTD
BMJ Publishing Group
BMJ
EditionInternational edition
Subjects
Behavioral Research
Biological and medical sciences
Chat room/discussion group
Chat rooms
Communities
Confidentiality
Consumer research
Ethical aspects
Ethics, Clinical
Ethics, Research
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Humans
Information In Practice
Information services
Information services industry
Informed Consent
Internet
Mailing lists
Medical ethics
Medical research
Medical sciences
Medicine, Experimental
Newsgroups
Online communities
Patient Selection
Privacy, Right of
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Qualitative Research
Research Design - standards
Research ethics
Research methods
Research Subjects
Right of privacy
Teaching. Deontology. Ethics. Legislation
United Kingdom
Human
Ethics
Confidentiality
Informed consent
Qualitative analysis
Internet
Research
Web site
Public health
Biomedical and Behavioral Research
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Summary:Informed consent, privacy, and confidentiality are basic ethical tenets of scientific research on people.12-14 To determine whether informed consent is required, you first have to decide whether postings on an internet community are "private" or "public" communications.
Bibliography:Correspondence to: G Eysenbach
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Correspondence to: G Eysenbach ey@yi.com
Contributors: Both authors contributed equally to this manuscript.
ISSN:0959-8138
0959-8146
1468-5833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1103