Studying the amateur artist: A perspective on disguising data collected in human subjects research on the Internet

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 217-231

  Bruckman, Amy ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Human subjects research; Identity; Internet; Pseudonyms; Research ethics

Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; PUBLISHING;

HUMAN SUBJECTS; IDENTITY; INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS; INTELLECTUAL WORKS; PRACTICAL GUIDELINES; PSEUDONYMS; PUBLISHED ACCOUNTS; RESEARCH ETHICS;

INTERNET;

EID: 2442589088     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021316409277     Document Type: Article

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