ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the history of ethics in human subject's research, tracing the move from violations and abuses with experimentation on human subjects that became the impetus for regulations and policies such as the Nuremburg Code, the Declaration of Helsinki, and the Belmont Report. It takes up how ethicists and Internet researchers from various disciplines are discussing ethics in online research, and how considerations of choice of research site, methodology, and tools for analysis factor in to ethical decision-making in Health 2.0 contexts. The chapter considers the ethical dimensions of a variety of Internet research methods and methodologies. It attempts to account for all dimensions of methodology vis-a-vis ethics, and also to acknowledge that the permutation of ideologies and practices people choose may alter the ethical context for a particular Internet research method, tool, or space.
