[Air-L] : question on data policy for research on extremist social media content

Kolina S Koltai koltai at utexas.edu
Mon Aug 10 12:21:40 PDT 2020


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On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 12:09 PM Tarleton L. Gillespie <tlg28 at cornell.edu>
wrote:

> Not a policy, but this research will be of interest to you:
>
> Banchik, A. V. (2020). Disappearing acts: Content moderation and emergent
> practices to preserve at-risk human rights–related content. New Media &
> Society.
> https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444820912724
>
>
>
> On 8/10/20, 3:06 PM, "Air-L on behalf of cbouko" <
> air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of catherine.bouko at ugent.be>
> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I have often had informal conversations with peers about the problem of
>     sharing (violent) extremist content extracted from social media
> between us,
>     insofar as one could be considered as purveyors of extremist
> propaganda in
>     doing so, even if one shares such data for scientific purposes. I
> haven't
>     found any policy of that kind on the internet, though. Do you have some
>     links to such policies or documents, please?
>
>     Thanks very much!
>
>     Wishing you a lovely summer,
>
>     Catherine
>
>     --
>     Catherine Bouko
>
>     Ghent University
>     Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
>     Groot-Brittanniëlaan 45
>     9000 Gent
>     Belgium
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>     http://research.flw.ugent.be/en/catherine.bouko
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