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From a comparative perspective alongside the internet focus of the Association of internet Research, see, for example, guidelines from the UK Economic and Social Research Council at http://www.esrc.ac.uk/about-esrc/information/research-ethics.aspx; the Social Research Association; http://the-sra.org.uk/sra_resources/research-ethics/ethics-guidelines/ and UK Government Social Research Unit; http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/networks/gsr/publications. See also Ó Dochartaigh (2009), Gaiser and Schreiner (2009), Franklin (2012: 123 passim, 151–157, 280–282).
See the Wikipedia entry on Real Life; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_life.
These two cyber-marketing neologisms combine producer and user in the first instance, and, in the second, producer and consumer in order to capture the way in which we use internet technologies – and they use us – blurs these distinctions.
This refers to the oft-cited caption of a cartoon appearing in The New Yorker in 1993, when the internet was young, by Peter Steiner; ‘On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog’ (The New Yorker 1993, Vol 69 (LXIX) no. 20: 61); see Peter Steiner's website; http://www.plsteiner.com/.
Whether or not one would argue that the internet is a fundamental right per se (see Cerf 2012).
In line with Schultze and Mason, N. Kathryn Hayles defines virtuality as ‘the cultural perception that material objects are interpenetrated by information patterns’. Hayles’ (1999: 12, 13–14) conceptualization resonates with the distinction Schultze and Mason make between a ‘disembodied and entangled view of the internet’ [MS: Abstract] in that she maintains that there is a ‘duality at the heart of the condition of virtuality – materiality on the one hand, information on the other’.
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Franklin, M. Being human and the internet: against dichotomies. J Inf Technol 27, 315–318 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1057/jit.2012.29
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