Doing Research in Cyberspace
Field MethodsPublished 1 November 1999
David Jacobson
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Abstract
Although laws and policies developed in the context of off-line research apply to online investigations, questions about the identifiability of human subjects, the conceptualization of privacy, the need for and means of obtaining informed consent, and the applicability of copyright law to computer-mediated communication (CMC) pose special problems for doing research in cyberspace.
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