This chapter will help you:

• Identify major ethics issues in human communication research.
• Explain some of the classic ethical positions that inform communication research.
• Describe some of the major contemporary codes of ethics.
• Discuss the concepts of peer review and of institutional review boards.
• Describe how the level of involvement with research participants can shape a researcher’s relationship with them.
• Identify some of the ethical issues unique to researching human communication on the Internet.