[Air-L] Farzaneh Badiei on "surveillance scientificism"

[Joly MacFie]

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/farzaneh-badiei-phd-768224b5_a-new-development-in-the-debate-about-instagram-activity-7219561483678924801-VFeh


Farzaneh Badiei writes:

I am deeply concerned about the behavioral research fever that is going on
> in the social media field. Be it teens mental health or how to make dating
> apps mental free or coming up with the most amazing trust and safety
> governance, researchers keep asking for more and more data. I think here we
> are dealing with surveillance scientificism. Researchers access of whatever
> kind if not careful can turn into surveillance and the news is: "Meta is
> opening a small pilot program that would allow a handful of them
> (researchers) to access Instagram data for up to about six months in order
> to study the app’s effect on the well-being of teens and young adults" [
> link
> <https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/07/instagram-teen-well-being-studies/679048/>]
> I think it is also a direct result of researchers constantly asking for
> data access without considering what sorts of effect they might have on the
> Internet, privacy, encryption and global interoperability.


I have cc'd Farzaneh above, in case any researchers here might want to
respond to her concerns.

Joly

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