ethics of public data use
TODO discuss what I’ve considered
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- discussion of ‘online self-disclosure practices’ - relevant for ethics in methodology
“Many people think that anonymizing social media posts is a good citation strategy that protects users’ privacy. But it’s not.“Even when anonymized by not including usernames, content from social media collected and shared in research articles can be easily traced back to its creator,” as Dym and Fiesler assert, drawing on a study by John W. Ayers and colleagues. Basically, you can google the text of a social media post and find the original post, context, and its author extremely easily.” - from Melanie Walsh on Medium
“The other big problem with anonymization is that it robs users of authorship. Creators deserve intellectual credit for what they create and publish, as Amy Bruckman and others have maintained.” - from Melanie Walsh on Medium
“Additionally, they did not include the actual text of tweets in their report and only included links to the tweets, essentially enabling users to delete their tweets and remove themselves from the study.” - from Melanie Walsh on Medium
“Dym and Fiesler recommend paraphrasing posts in such a way that they are not traceable back to the original post” - from Melanie Walsh on Medium
Resources
Section titled “Resources”- Ravn S, Barnwell A, Barbosa Neves B. What Is “Publicly Available Data”? Exploring Blurred Public–Private Boundaries and Ethical Practices Through a Case Study on Instagram. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. 2019;15(1-2):40-45. doi:10.1177/1556264619850736
- Lui, D. (2015) ‘Public Curation and Private Collection: The Production of Knowledge on Pinterest.com’, Critical Studies in Media Communication, 32(2), pp. 128–142. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2015.1023329.