[Air-L] Ethics & data collection on Facebook

Corinne Cath corinnecath at gmail.com
Wed Mar 8 01:08:09 PST 2017


Dear all,

I would recommend the following reading:

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Nissenbaum, H. (2004). Privacy as contextual integrity. Washington Law
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integrity of social life. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

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Hope this is helpful.

Best,



On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Schaefer, M.T. (Mirko) <m.t.schaefer at uu.nl>
wrote:

> Hi Denise,
> what are the questions concerning ethics? The ethics of Facebook (them),
> or ethics in collecting data from FB pages (you/your student)? We at the
> Utrecht Data School run into issues of ethics all the time, as we
> capture/use wildley, made mistakes in the past (suppose we'll make some in
> the future, though trying to prevent it) and as we cooperate with public
> administrations and consult them on ethics. We developed the Data Ethics
> Decision Aid (DEDA) which is a table poster for discussing and reflecting
> on a research project's ethical issues and potential impact. And it is an
> interactive questionnaire addressing potential ethical issues. In our
> recent book are two chapters that might be of interest:
>
> Get Your Hands Dirty. Emerging Data Practices as Challenge for Research
> Integrity (Gerwin van Schie, Irene Westra & Mirko Tobias Schäfer)
>
> Research Ethics in Context. Decision-Making in Digital Research (Annette
> Markham & Elizabeth Buchanan)
>
> The book is available as open access here: http://oapen.org/search?
> identifier=624771
>
> Cheers,
> mirko
> ________________________________________
> From: Air-L [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Denise N. Rall
> [denrall at yahoo.com]
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> Subject: [Air-L] Ethics & data collection on Facebook
>
> Dear AIR-ers -
>
> One of my students is working on Fb ethics to collect data from three Fb
> sites that she manages to market &resell womens’ 1950-style clothing (yes I
> work in fashion now).
>
> I know we already had a long series of posts on reddit - but I would very
> much appreciate any references I can pass along to her.  She’s got a few
> papers off google scholar, I just think she might be missing the
> significant contribution from one of the AoIR members.
>
> [Note: I’m back on Air-l after a 7 year absence and now looking forward to
> seeing a few familiar faces in Brisbane in 2019 - on MY side of the world!
> Lismore is about 2.5-3 hours from Brisbane].
>
> Cheers, Denise
>
> Dr Denise N. Rall, Adjunct Fellow
> School of Arts & Social Sciences,
> Southern Cross University, Australia
> Currently in Madison, Wisconsin, USA
>  Mob +614 8993 4477
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> Dr Denise N. Rall, Adjunct Fellow
> School of Arts & Social Sciences,
> Southern Cross University, Australia
> Currently in Madison, Wisconsin, USA
>  Mob +614 8993 4477
> http://scu.edu.au/staffdirectory/person_detail.php?person=9843 <
> http://scu.edu.au/staffdirectory/person_detail.php?person=9843>
>
>
>
>
> Dr Denise N. Rall, Adjunct Fellow
> School of Arts & Social Sciences,
> Southern Cross University, Australia
> Currently in Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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> http://scu.edu.au/staffdirectory/person_detail.php?person=9843 <
> http://scu.edu.au/staffdirectory/person_detail.php?person=9843>
>
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Corinne J.N. Cath
Ph.D. Candidate, Oxford Internet Institute & Alan Turing Institute

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