Mining social media data: How are research sponsors and researchers addressing the ethical challenges?

Background: Data representing people’s behaviour, attitudes, feelings and relationships are increasingly being harvested from social media platforms and re-used for research purposes. This can be ethically problematic, even where such data exist in the public domain. We set out to explore how the ac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Joanna Taylor, Claudia Pagliari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-04-01
Series:Research Ethics Review
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1747016117738559