The International Journal of Internet Research Ethics (IJIRE) seeks papers from researchers describing best ethical practices in the investigation of online communities. Outcomes of challenges to the online community due to research ethics decisions - Research design (e.g., This special issue, edited by Aleks Krotoski, aims to create a compendium of case studies and theoretical frameworks which future scholars will reference when designing their own analyses of populations and practices in social networking sites, weblogs, listservs, online games, video sharing sites, virtual worlds and other Web environments that demonstrate evidence of community processes.

When doing qualitative research there are so many nuances in the answers, that it often feels like: If you weren’t there, you won’t be able to really get it. Or I’d teach another research who would do another small project, doing both, the interviewing and the interpretation. But with this model you can only grow so far and I know we should be able to do better than this, to Descartes "Mind and Body" source Wikipedia Commons Unless you can download the interviewer’s mind.

NASA’s Clickworkers project asks users to identify and count craters on Mars, and the combined inputs allow them to ratonalise use of their internal research resources. Thereafter advancement also entails a qualitative evaluation of an editor’s performance by their peers. “In this book we attempt to articulate what constitutes a collaboration. We argue that rules for participation, established guidelines for attribution, organizational structure and leadership, and clear goals are necessary for collaboration.