"Go away": Participant objections to being studied and the ethics of chatroom research

Information Society

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 127-139

  Hudson, James M ^a   Bruckman, Amy ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Chatrooms; Ethics; Informed consent; IRB; Online research; Waiver of consent

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442480543     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240490423030     Document Type: Article

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