[Air-L] Discord data

[Preeksha Malhotra]

Dear Anna and everyone!

Happy new year first of all. I hope you all had a restful break.

The conversation here is fascinating concerning data scraping/collection
from DISCORD.

I was wondering if the community here could also help me with a similar
query regarding suitable data collection methods for social media
platforms. Can colleagues here share any relevant methods of data
collection they may have used or know of for X (former Twitter), Instagram
and Facebook? This is in regard to research to understand political content
online.

Any suggestions/leads would be greatly appreciated.

Warm regards
Preeksha

On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 12:59 AM Anna Gjika via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> Thank you all for your thoughtful responses. They seem to confirm what I
> suspected, which is that it's more about the data collection method, and
> that scraping wholesale could be the issue. In an ideal world consent would
> be great, but as Jakob notes, when conducting certain types of research -
> whether it's hate speech or online harassment, deepfakes etc. (my areas of
> research) this isn't always possible. I really appreciate the resources and
> language here around public/private and ethics.
>
> And how neat, there's a whole Discord research community, with some
> excellent walk through questions - thanks PS!
>
> Wishing you all a happy and restorative holiday season!
>
> Anna
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 6:13 PM PS Berge via Air-L <
> air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Anna and AoIR friends!
> >
> > Glad to see this conversation happening--this is a subject that folks
> over
> > in the Discord Academic Research Community (lovingly called the D/ARC;
> > https://darcmode.org) have been discussing for a while! As you've
> pointed
> > out, so much of the language that exists around ethics and social
> platforms
> > assumes that "privacy" is obvious and paramount, when the question of
> > "private data" is complicated and even unhelpful as a framework for
> > approaching Discord. Quite fortuitously, the D/ARC leadership team just
> > published a blog post on precisely this subject that might be of interest
> > to folks here: https://darcmode.org/ethics-101/.
> >
> > How do we (succinctly and effectively) argue that a Discord server or
> > channel is private or public? All Discord servers are fundamentally
> "invite
> > only," but some are "Verified" or "Community-Enabled" or "Discoverable"
> in
> > Discord's internal search. For this very reason, we've had members be
> told
> > wildly different things by review committees, from "All data on Discord
> is
> > protected, because all servers are invite only!" to "Well, it's kind of
> > like a forum, so it's all public and you don't need an ethics review!"
> The
> > use of scrapers, especially bots and third-party integrations, to collect
> > data has also been met with varying confusion. I'm glad to say there's
> > forthcoming research in this area from folks in our community, which
> > hopefully will add some meaningful literature and methods.
> >
> > As we mention in the blog post above, we're actively looking for further
> > resources/tools/literature scholars are using when it comes to conducting
> > research on/about Discord. If you have others we don't have listed,
> please
> > let us know and if you're doing Discord-related stuff and haven't joined
> > our cheery corner of the internet, we'd be glad to hear about what you're
> > working on! :)
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > ✨ PB
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 9:59 AM Anna Gjika via Air-L <
> > air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Has anyone worked with data from Discord? They have the following in
> > their
> > > ToS, and I'm curious how folks have dealt with this from a
> > methodological/
> > > ethics review board perspective.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Anna
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-- 
Warm Regards
Preeksha