Introduction: Why IJIRE?
Elizabeth Buchanan and Charles Ess

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Small Talk
Annette Markham

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Ethical Approaches to Robotic Data Gathering in Academic Research
Gove Allen, Dan Burk, and Charles Ess

9

Data as Representation: Beyond Anonymity in e-Research Ethics
Annamaria Carusi

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Researching the Researchers: Market Researchers, Child Subjects and the Problem of “Informed” Consent
Sara M. Grimes

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Emerging Legal Issues in the Collection and Dissemination of Internet-Sourced Research Data: Part I, Basic Tort Law Issues and Negligence
Tomas A. Lipinski

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Creating a Web of Attribution in the Feminist Blogosphere
Erin Hvizdak

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