Researcher Views and Practices around Informing, Getting Consent, and Sharing Research Outputs with Social Media Users When Using Their Public Data

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dc.contributor.authorProferes, Nicholas
dc.contributor.authorWalker, Shawn
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-04T07:38:28Z
dc.date.available2020-01-04T07:38:28Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-07
dc.description.abstractPublicly accessible social media data is frequently used for scientific research. However, numerous questions remain regarding what ethical obligations researchers have in regard to using such content. We report on researchers’ own views and practices regarding informing, getting consent from, and sharing research outputs with users when using publicly accessible social media data. Findings reveal both diverging current practices and views on what researchers ought to do in the future. Some researchers view the ethics of public data use as merely requiring compliance with the requirements of their ethics board, while others’ ethical practices go beyond what is minimally required. Some researchers worry about the effects of contacting users to inform, seek consent, or share outputs with users. Yet others note that they want to build bridges with online communities through these mechanisms, but struggle with a lack of precedent and tools to do so at scale.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2020.290
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-3-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/64032
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectCritical and Ethical Studies of Digital and Social Media
dc.subjectconsent
dc.subjectethics
dc.subjectsocial media
dc.subjecttwitter
dc.titleResearcher Views and Practices around Informing, Getting Consent, and Sharing Research Outputs with Social Media Users When Using Their Public Data
dc.typeConference Paper
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