[Air-L] Tools/Methods for Analyzing Photos- ethical issues?

[Janet Salmons, Ph.D.]

I am responding with a follow-up question to  Ana Maria Quiros, with plans
to collect "to collect photo metadata and am specifically interested in the
tags, descriptions, number of likes, and album names of individual photos."
And I will pose it generally to the list: I am interested in your view of
ethical issues and approaches for such a study. Are you obtaining consent
from the people who posted the images? How will you protect anonymity if
you plan to use metadata? Will  you have any other interactions with them,
for example an interview to ask about the motivations behind posting the
image? Or their explanation of what the image represents? Just curious....

You might find this study of interest
<http://www.natcen.ac.uk/media/282288/p0639-research-using-social-media-report-final-190214.pdf>--
about users' perspectives on the use of their posts (including images) as
data.

Regards,
Janet


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