Ethics and Internet Research, LGRG Meeting «

June meeting, London Games Research Group
Time and place: 12.30 pm UK time, Monday June 18th in Second Life.
(note change in time)
RSVP to Diane or Siobhan as usual.

Thank you all for your recent suggestions for a June meeting, most of which involved trying to meet in Second Life for some kind of tour.

For our June meeting, Aleks Krotoski will lead a discussion on the theme of ‘Ethics in Online/Social World research’. We are meeting at Aleks’ place in Second Life. Please dust off your SL avatar, and put that date in your diary. You can get there directly (if you’ve got an SL account) here:
http://tinyurl.com/y3wlat 
We thought that this paper might be a good place to begin the discussion
http://aoir.org/reports/ethics.pdf
Ethical decision-making and Internet research Recommendations from the aoir ethics working committee1 Copyright (c) 2002 by Charles Ess and the Association of Internet Researchers 
Our apologies to our colleagues who cannot access Second Life. We plan to arrange some kind of vicarious tour in the seminar room at the Knowledge Lab ASAP for those who are interested.

socialworlds Says:

June 18, 2007 at 2:50 pm

The meeting took place today. A dozen or so people attended and talked ‘ethics’ till past 2, and stayed remarkably on-topic. I think it went well, especially as the meeting started around 12.30 – just as a weird grid crash hit. Lots of people couldn’t log in or teleport, including our discussion leader. I’ve never been to a SL meeting before. I can imagine that with a different group managing to follow or chair the chat might become a challenge (WoW seems to have more and better chat options). It also struck me that (like in RL) you need a pre-set finishing time, and a ‘debrief over a drink’ thing sorted out beforehand. Tho’ chatting in a bar when your options are either 1-1 (instant msg) or ‘broadcast to the room’ might be tricky – perhaps there is a compromise setting – I guess you can re-set a proximity on the chat, for small groups/mingling?
Anyway, the meeting gave me things to think about, in terms of ethics but also in terms of logistics and teaching sessions/group discussions.
Many thanks to those who took part (and those who tried!)
dc