[Air-L] Ethics in social media research

[Audun G. Løvlie]

Dear all,

I'm sending this email in relation to my work with SERISS (www.seriss.eu 
<http://seriss.eu>), a project aimed at strengthening and harmonising 
social science research across Europe. The work package my task is part 
of focuses on ethical and legal issues related to the use of social 
media data in social scientific research projects

*Case studies that link social media data and survey data?*
We are interested in cases to use as examples, particularly research 
projects where social media data has been linked to survey data, and if 
it exists also where social media data has been linked to administrative 
data. (Linkage of social media data with interview data is of less 
interest, as we have sufficient examples of this.)

We aim to review ethical and legal issues and challenges that exist, 
that have been experienced and that may come up when formulating 
research questions and lines of inquiry, when dealing with social media 
data.*
*

Furthermore, if you have any experiences that you can share on the 
ethical and legal aspects of the use of social media data in social 
scientific research in general and in particular on linkage as mentioned 
above, any help would be greatly appreciated.

In advance, thank you very much for any insight you may be able to provide.
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Vennlig hilsen | Best wishes
Audun G. Løvlie
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