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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** See also the special issue of Social Networks on ethics. Vol 27, # 2. Steven Corman wrote: >***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** > >During a panel discussing this issue at Sunbelt a couple of years ago, >there seemed to be consensus that Sam's is the argument we all need to >make in cases like this. Unless there is some particularly sensitive >behavior involved (drug use, HIV, incest, etc.) a network survey >presents no special risks beyond those associated with any other >empirical study of a social system. It would be just as likely to learn >about my relationship with X in an unstructured interview, for instance. >Yet IRBs don't ask researchers using those methods to get permission >from all of their interviewees' acquaintances. That would be >ridiculous, as it is in the case of routine social networks research. > >There also seemed to be consensus that it is important to push back >firmly in these cases before overzealous IRBs shut down the whole social >networks research enterprise. I wonder: Do IRBs accept as "precedent" >the decisions of other IRBs? If so then maybe one step INSNA could take >is to collect proposals by members that have recently been approved. >That could provide a resource for people making these arguments, and it >might help seed/support the policy that Borgatti proposed. > >Steve > >________________________________________________ >Steven R. (Steve) Corman >Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication >Arizona State University >http://www.public.asu.edu/~corman > >Chair, Organizational Communication Division >International Communication Association >http://www.icahdq.org > >-----Original Message----- >From: Social Networks Discussion Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On >Behalf Of Sam Friedman >Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 10:19 AM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: [SOCNET] [Fwd: How to address the IRB's concern] > >***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** > >We have had the IRB accept our argument that the risk to the Alters is >minimal given very good confidentiality safeguards. They do have the >right to accept a "minimal risk" argument. >sam > >Sam Friedman >National Development and Research Institutes >71 West 23d Street, 8th floor >New York, NY 10010 >USA >1 212 845 4467 >Fax 1 917 438 0894 >[log in to unmask] > > > >>>>Rachel Garshick Kleit <[log in to unmask]> 10/3/2005 12:02:28 >>>> >>>> >PM >>> > >***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** > >The alternative to contacting everyone on the list is one where the >names of >the alters is kept confidential from the researcher. With egocentric >network information, you do not need to retain the names of the people >after >asking questions about them. I've used surveys where I only collect >the >first name of the alter or assign a letter to them. After the survey >is >completed, the identifier is retained, but the name is not. When I've >explained this to the IRB, they have accepted the method as protecting >the >rights of the alters. > >If one intends to contact the alters in the network, then the issues >are >slightly different, but I've not had experience there. > >Rachel Garshick Kleit, PhD >Assistant Professor >Evans School of Public Affairs >University of Washington >Box 353033 >209C Parrington Hall >Seattle, WA 98195-3055 >tel: 206 221 3063 >fax: 206 685 9044 >email: [log in to unmask] >homepage: http://www.evansuw.org/fac/Kleit/ >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Steve Borgatti" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 8:50 AM >Subject: Re: [Fwd: How to address the IRB's concern] > > > > >>***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** >> >>One thing that would help long-term is if INSNA had a document >> >> >giving > > >>guidelines for ethically appropriate social network research. This >> >> >would > > >>allow researchers to point their IRBs to the document, saying that >> >> >their > > >>study is in compliance with standard norms. >> >>Steve. >> >>Steve Borgatti >>Professor & Chair >>Organization Studies Dept, Boston College >>Tel: +1 978 456 7356 >>Fax: +1 978 456 7372 >>E-mail: [log in to unmask] >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Social Networks Discussion Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >> >> >On > > >>Behalf Of Bill.Richards >>Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 11:45 >>To: [log in to unmask] >>Subject: [SOCNET] [Fwd: How to address the IRB's concern] >> >>***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** >> >>Nancy Leonard ([log in to unmask]) wrote to ask about addressing the >> >> >IRB's > > >>concern about the use of name rosters within a social network survey. >> >> >Is > > >>there >>an alternative to contacting everyone on the list to request their >>consent to include >>their name on that list? >> >> >> >> >_____________________________________________________________________ > > >>SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for >> >> >social > > >>network researchers (http://www.insna.org). 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