The Bloomsbury Handbook of Online Research Ethics broadens, challenges, and invigorates researchers' consideration of the ethics of doing online research in a globalised, and increasingly sophisticated technologically-mediated world.

This diverse collection of case studies and perspectives brings together leading experts and emerging scholars from different academic disciplines, with section introductions written by key scholars in the field. Global in its reach, the collection questions established conventions in ethical thought, whilst also exploring new research directions and the use of innovative online and digital methods. In doing so, it seeks to promote a de-Westernised consideration of research ethics, pushing researchers to think through the implications of localised ethics in relation to global perspectives.

Chapters introduce and interrogate key theories, practices and philosophies relating to online research ethics, building on, and extending conventional questions of issues of informed consent, notions of publicness and privacy, and risk-benefit considerations to consider broader concerns relating to materiality, the relation between industry-and-academic research, creativity, infrastructures, and embodiment. Written against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Handbook also considers what happens when researchers move online, not out of choice, or design, but out of necessity.

Elizabeth A. Buchanan is Director of the Office of Research Support Services and Senior Research Scientist at the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, USA.

Natasha Whiteman is Reader in Media and Communication and Assistant Head of the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster, UK.