Research Ethics in Context: Decision-Making in Digital Research

In 2012, we publishedEthical Decision-making and Internet Research, which consolidated the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Ethics Working Committee’s recommendations into a comprehensive document. In 2015, we revisited the subject withInternet Research:Ethical Concerns, which took a practical approach to internet research ethics by reviewing the work of other researchers in the field. With the article you are reading now, we attempt to reconcile the abstract and the practice-based methods of our previous two articles by unpacking ethical decision-making in view of principles. Digital media’s fast development, expansion and increasing integration into our day-to-day lives does not just mean