[Air-L] Ideas? extracting posts and responses from a private Facebook group

Fri Nov 20 10:13:16 PST 2015

Its also worth looking at the terms of the group itself. Private groups
that concern sensitive issues e.g. health often post their own privacy
terms.

On 20/11/2015 18:02, "Air-L on behalf of Dr. Rasha Abdulla"
<air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of rasha at aucegypt.edu> wrote:

>This post raises a good ethics debate. If I'm a member of a private group
>on Facebook, I don't think the admins have the authority to give someone
>permission to scrap data in my name. And honestly, I'd be pretty offended
>if they did, I might still want to object to that. In essence, my own
>personal view it that's it's unethical to scrap data off a private group
>unless every single member gives permission for me to do so.
>
>Best regards.
>Rasha
>
>Rasha A. Abdulla, Ph.D.
>Associate Professor and Past Chair
>Journalism and Mass Communication
>The American University in Cairo
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>
>
>
>On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Michael T Zimmer <zimmerm at uwm.edu>
>wrote:
>
>> Right. Since it is a private group, I’m encourage getting consent of all
>> members, not just the administrators. Plus, the fact that FB makes a
>> private group hard to scrape should set off some research ethics
>>alarms….
>>
>> --
>> Michael Zimmer, PhD
>> Associate Professor and PhD Program Director, School of Information
>>Studies
>> Director, Center for Information Policy Research
>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>> e: zimmerm at uwm.edu
>> w: www.michaelzimmer.org
>>
>>
>> > On Nov 16, 2015, at 2:32 PM, Jorge Luis Salcedo Maldonado <
>> jorgelsalcedo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,  you can scrape the post but take care of being blocked by
>> > Facebook,  if it is a massive quantity of data, if you dont have
>> > programming skills you can use kimono or OutWit pro for this task.
>> > Also be aware of the legal issues related to analyse private data, you
>> can
>> > have the administrators authorization but I dont know if the members
>>of
>> the
>> > group  agree to analyse their post.
>> > Best regards
>> > El 16/11/2015 21:21, "Violeta Carrion" <vdcarrion at gmail.com> escribió:
>> >
>> >> If it is private you have no options other than manually.. unless you
>> can
>> >> write some script in Mozilla which would do the repetitive steps for
>> you.
>> >> No API will give you anything whose permissions are not public. In
>>fact,
>> >> even when getting the data from GNIP is not possible.
>> >>
>> >> You would need to be quite creative by using a script that access
>>that
>> data
>> >> from a browser that you have opened.
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <
>> tlauriau at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Greetings all!
>> >>>
>> >>> I have a colleague with the following query?  Any ideas?
>> >>>
>> >>> I need to find the easiest possible way of extracting posts and
>> >>> responses from a private Facebook group. I am a member of this group
>> >>> and  I have permission from the administrators to access the posts
>>for
>> >>> the purposes of my research. I’ll likely be using NVivo to help
>> >>> qualitatively analyze the posts. But, since I want to extract about
>>a
>> >>> year’s worth of posts and responses, and it’s a fairly busy group,
>>to
>> >>> do this manually is unmanageable.
>> >>>
>> >>> I’m wondering if there’s software out there to help me do this or if
>> >>> there’s a third-party I might be able to hire to help me with this
>> >>> work. The problem seems to stem from the fact it’s a private vs. a
>> >>> public Facebook group.
>> >>>
>> >>> Cheerio
>> >>> Tracey
>> >>>
>> >>> --
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>> >>>
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>> >>> Critical Media Studies and Big Data
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