Ethical Principles of Norm
Watch
"Norm Watch" is a
case study of incidents how, where and why social norms are
broken in Second Life
. More information about the study can be found at: http://cfpm.org/sl/normwatch.html
We aim to uphold the highest ethical standards in the conduct of the
Norm Watch study. In particular:
- Nothing will be hidden from you or covert, there is no hidden
motive or purpose for the study other than which is explained on the
Norm Watch web page
- Your full informed consent (as your avatar) is necessary for any
use of the information provided us via the web page
- Your anonymity (your SL name) will be preserved in any subsequent
processing, reports, paper, release of data etc.
- We will keep you informed of all uses of the data thereby
obtained (e.g papers published) via these web pages - also (optionally)
- All results of the research will be freely available to the
public.
- We will not exploit the the data gained for financial gain.
- We will not use the information to pass on to any authority or
for any use other than research into social norms.
If you have any concerns about the project, or its management, please
contact one of the case-study managers below, either via email in RL or
inworld.
The
Case-Study Managers for this project are:
| EMIL | CPM | CPM
in SL | MMU | UoS | BE | CG |
(Centre
for Research in Social Simulation, University of Surrey) - soma barbosa in SL
(Centre
for Policy Modelling, Manchester
Metropolitan University) - wata
klata in SL
at the CPM@SL