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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON INFORMATION FORM Online Experiment Investigator: Meghan Dougherty, Doctoral candidate under the supervision of Kirsten Foot, Department of Communication, University of Washington, modcx1@u.washignton.edu Please note that we cannot ensure the confidentiality of information sent via e-mail.
Investigators' statement
I am asking you to be in a research study. The purpose of this information form is to give you the information you will need to help you decide whether or not to be in the study. Please read the form carefully. You may ask questions about the purpose of the research, what we would ask you to do, the possible risks and benefits, your rights as a volunteer, and anything else about the research or this form that is not clear. When all your questions have been answered, you can decide if you want to be in the study or not. This process is called 'informed consent'.
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
I am conducting a research study to examine the use of online technology in museums and in scholarship to enable non-expert, decentralized groups to participate in collective meaning-making and preservation in digital culture. I ask that you visit and interact with a Web site that will give you access to a published Web archive on Web Campaigning.
PROCEDURES
If you choose to be in this study, I would like you to use an online tool called Wayfinder - a tagging (keywording) and annotating interface for Web archives available at www.archivefilter.net/wayfinder. At this site, you will gain access to Kirsten Foot's and Steve Schneider's Web Campaigning digital installation hosted by MIT Press. You will be able to tag and annotate objects in the installation, or click through to visit specially curated exhibits about objects in the installation. You will be given the opportunity to enter keywords describing installation objects, to view descriptions other participants have entered, or to view catalog information supplied by the installation's cataloger. You are not required to enter information to view other participant's input, or to view the installation. You will not be asked to supply identifying information.RISKS, STRESS, OR DISCOMFORT
Some people feel that providing information for research is an invasion of privacy. Some people feel that political content on the Web is offensive.
BENEFITS OF THE STUDY
I hope that the results of this study will better help people who are developing strategies for collecting documenting and exhibiting digital cultural ephemera in the future. You may not directly benefit from this study.
OTHER INFORMATION
Being in this study is voluntary. You can stop at any time. The results of the research study may be published or used in future comparative studies. Your participation may take as much or as little time as you like, whenever you like. The site and your data will remain accessible after data is harvested for analysis in February 2007, at least until the study is complete or until June 2007. Once your tags and annotations are available, they are available to all who use the site.
Government or university staffs sometimes review studies such as this one to make sure they are being done safely and legally. If a review of this study takes place, your records may be examined. The reviewers will protect your privacy. The study records will not be used to put you at legal risk of harm.
If you have any questions, you can ask me now or later. If you have any questions about your rights as a research subjects, you can call the University of Washington Human Subjects Division (206) 543-0098.
Subject's statement
This study has been explained to me. I volunteer to take part in this research. I have had a chance to ask questions. If I have questions later about the research, I can ask one of the researchers listed above. If I have questions about my rights, I can call the Human Subjects Division at (206) 543-0098.
Please use Wayfinder only if you can agree with all of the following statements:
I am over the age of 18.
I am legally competent to provide consent.
I am not currently a prisoner.