Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment as a Challenge to Research Ethics

This article analyzes the ethical discussion focusing on the Facebook emotional contagion experiment published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014. The massive-scale experiment manipulated the News Feeds of a large amount of Facebook users and was successful in proving tha...

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Main Authors: Jukka Jouhki, Epp Lauk, Maija Penttinen, Niina Sormanen, Turo Uskali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cogitatio 2016-10-01
Series:Media and Communication
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Online Access:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/579