Computational Social Science and Ethical Decision

The development of the web, in the last 20 years, has opened new areas of analysis and new phenomena sociologically relevant for social research. However, the research work in digital space presents a series of ethical and deontological problems. In this context the members of the Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR) have composed and edited a document with a series of ethical guidelines for social research. The work of the AOIR group not include Italian researchers; for this reason, the aim of this paper is to propose a commented translation of the contents of Ethical decisionmaking and Internet research for make the ethical factor one of the main tools for computational sociology.