Elgesem Dag
Seksjon for Humanistik informatikk/Department for Humanistic Informatics, HF-bygget, Sydnesplass 7, N-5007 Bergen, Norway.
Ethics Inf Technol. 2002;4:195-203. doi: 10.1023/a:1021320510186.
In the analysis of the ethical problems of online research, there is much to be learned from the work that has already been done on research ethics in the social sciences and the humanities. I discuss the structure of norms in the Norwegian ethical guidelines for research in the social sciences with respect to their relevance for the ethical issues of Internet research. A four-step procedure for the ethical evaluation of research is suggested. I argue that even though, at one level, the problems of online research are very similar to those we find in traditional areas of scientific research, there still are some issues that are unique to research online. A general model for the analysis of privacy and data protection is suggested. This model is then used to characterize the special problems pertaining to the protection of privacy in online contexts, and to argue that one cannot assume a simple distinction between the private and the public when researching in such contexts.
在分析在线研究的伦理问题时，我们可以从社会科学和人文科学中已经开展的研究伦理工作中学到很多东西。我讨论了挪威社会科学研究伦理准则中的规范结构，以及它们与互联网研究伦理问题的相关性。本文提出了一个对研究进行伦理评估的四步程序。我认为，尽管在某种程度上，在线研究的问题与我们在传统科学研究领域中发现的问题非常相似，但仍然存在一些在线研究特有的问题。本文提出了一个分析隐私和数据保护的通用模型。然后使用该模型来描述在线环境中与隐私保护相关的特殊问题，并论证在这种环境下进行研究时不能简单地对私人领域和公共领域进行区分。
