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and typically most people in any department are unaware of the details of what their colleagues are doing. In the US, the right way to vet the ethics of ones' research is through your University's IRB. Again, one's dept. head and colleagues are not involved in this process at all
To get more specific: CS department leadership didn't know about the back and forth or publicity about this work in December. I would say this is not unusual, although it clearly is unfortunate, and let's say that this is a learning experience for us. One more point to come:....
Yes! This was an IRB 'failure'. Again, in my area of Social Computing, it's been clear for awhile that IRBs often do not understand the issues and the potential risks/harms of doing research in online communities / social media. So researchers have to exercise their own care....
And need to help educate IRBs!
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