[Air-L] research ethics again - students and FB

Daniel Thomas daniel.thomas--airl at cl.cam.ac.uk
Wed Jan 10 06:55:51 PST 2018


On 10/01/18 14:43, Charles M. Ess wrote:
> A research project involves a small number of students, legally minors -
> and requires that they set up fake FB accounts for the sake of
> role-playing in an educational context?
> Of course, fake accounts are a clear violation of the FB ToS.

Is the use of facebook necessary for this research? Are the role-playing
accounts interacting with the wider network or just with each other? If
the role-playing accounts are only interacting with each other then
could a self-hosted open source social network system be used? This
would bypass facebook ToS issues.


Daniel

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Dr Daniel R. Thomas
Researcher, Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, University of Cambridge
GE20, Computer Laboratory, 15 JJ Thompson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FD, UK
Honorary Research Associate, Peterhouse, Cambridge





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