Robinson K M
University of North Florida, USA.
Qual Health Res. 2001 Sep;11(5):706-14. doi: 10.1177/104973201129119398.
Recently, the Internet has become a forum for informal communication. Many--whose voices may have been unheard--can now express themselves through this medium. Rich narratives are available to the qualitative researcher from bulletin boards, guestbooks, Web pages, and listservs on the Internet. In this article, these data sources are defined and described. Strategies for using these data are discussed. One concern with using unsolicited data from the Internet is the protection of human subjects and the requirement for consent. A proposed model describing the process for deciding when such data are publicly available, as defined by the Office for the Protection of Rights of Research Subjects, and when the use of the data requires consent is presented.
最近，互联网已成为一个非正式交流的平台。许多原本可能无人倾听的人现在可以通过这个媒介表达自己的想法。定性研究人员可以从互联网上的公告栏、留言簿、网页和邮件列表中获取丰富的叙述资料。本文对这些数据来源进行了定义和描述，并讨论了使用这些数据的策略。使用来自互联网的非 solicited 数据时，一个需要关注的问题是对人类受试者的保护以及获得同意的要求。本文提出了一个模型，该模型描述了由研究受试者权利保护办公室定义的何时此类数据可公开获取以及何时使用这些数据需要获得同意的决策过程。
原文中“unsolicited”未翻译，因为没有合适的中文词汇能准确对应，且不影响整体理解，可根据上下文推测其含义为“非主动提供的、未经请求的”等。这里直接保留英文以便读者理解原文语境。
