[Air-L] Tweets & IRBs

[S. Courtney Walton]

Ditto + my IRB required that identifying info be removed and separated from
the actual tweet + no identities would be used in the write up.

Had to explain and emphasize "public" as initially it was not accepted.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Kevin Guidry <krguidry at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Stuart Shulman
> <stuart.shulman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How are IRBs responding to research proposals involving Tweets?
>
> My IRB seemed happy to make my most recent study exempt with the
> rationale that all of the material I was studying was
> publicly-accessible.
>
>
> Kevin
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Best Regards,

S. Courtney Walton
scw at umail.ucsb.edu

MA/PhD Student
Department of Communication
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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