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Ethical, Legal, and Methodological Considerations in Cyber Research: Conducting a Cyber Ethnography of www.bullying.org

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As Lee (2013) points out in Facebook Nation, we live in an age of “total information awareness.” With Google Street View, MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, WikiLeaks, and recent revelations by Eric Snowden regarding the extent of the NSA’s surveillance activities, it may seem whimsical to talk about privacy rights, informed consent, and other ethical concerns when it comes to conducting research in cyberspace. Nevertheless, the debate concerning ethics in cyber research continues unabated, as it affects most social researchers whose activities are governed by institutional research ethics boards and by the standards of their professional associations (Graber and Graber 2013; McKee and Porter 2009).

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  1. Australian Institute of Criminology, Australia

    Russell G. Smith

  2. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

    Ray Chak-Chung Cheung

  3. Asia Pacific Association of Technology and Society, Hong Kong SAR

    Laurie Yiu-Chung Lau

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Cartwright, B.E. (2015). Ethical, Legal, and Methodological Considerations in Cyber Research: Conducting a Cyber Ethnography of www.bullying.org. In: Smith, R.G., Cheung, R.CC., Lau, L.YC. (eds) Cybercrime Risks and Responses. Palgrave Macmillan’s Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137474162_3

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