[Air-L] Facebook researchers: how do you get a list of users who like a page?

[Jean Burgess]

Not to disagree necessarily, but I wouldn't allow Facebook's privacy (or data access) policies to dictate research ethics either...

On 04/03/2013, at 9:56, "Angela Newell" <amnewell at utexas.edu> wrote:

> I am really curious if you asked the question SHOULD I access a list of
> users who like a certain page.  If even Facebook views the privacy of their
> users and the pages that they like on Facebook as private, perhaps you
> should consider your own research ethics. Membership lists typically
> receive certain protections under the law--especially in the EU and UK.
> While "likes" of a certain page are not necessarily construed as membership
> lists, it would set a fascinating legal precedent for someone to try them
> as such.
> 
> -- 
> Angela Newell, Ph.D.
> University of Texas at Austin
> LBJ School of Public Affairs
> amnewell at utexas.edu
> 
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Andrew Roback <andrew.roback at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I am researching NPOs that use Facebook, and I'm trying to compile a
>> network of users who like individual NPO FB pages. I have tried to get a
>> list of users who like the NPO FB pages using two importers (NodeXL and
>> netvizz), but these tools only download user-post networks and do not
>> provide a list of all users who like the page (at least I didn't see that
>> option).
>> 
>> I recently read that Facebook restricts this option in the API due to
>> privacy concerns<
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3546320/how-to-list-facebook-users-who-like-a-page-or-interest
>>> ,
>> and I noticed that the "like" class in
>> FQL<http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/like>only
>> returns lists for objects like posts, photos, etc.
>> 
>> Does anyone have a tool or method for using the API to get this data?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Andrew
>> 
>> --
>> Andrew J. Roback
>> Ph.D. Candidate in Technical Communication
>> Illinois Institute of Technology
>> http://andrewroback.com
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