Automatic personalization based on Web usage mining
Communications of the ACM
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Ethics of Internet research: Contesting thehuman subjects research model
Ethics and Information Technology
Ethics and Information Technology
Ethical issues in web data mining
Ethics and Information Technology
Information Politics on the Web
Information Politics on the Web
The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. election: divided they blog
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Link discovery
Web crawling ethics revisited: Cost, privacy, and denial of service
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology
Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology
Identifying and characterizing public science-related fears from RSS feeds: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Predicting user concerns about online privacy
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Quantitative comparisons of search engine results
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Floridi's ontological theory of informational privacy: Some implications and challenges
Ethics and Information Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Floridi's Philosophy of Information and Information Ethics: Current Perspectives, Future Directions
The Information Society - The Philosophy of Information, its Nature, and Future Developments
Investigation of the accuracy of search engine hit counts
Journal of Information Science
Social Network Services as Data Sources and Platforms for e-Researching Social Networks
Social Science Computer Review
Twitter power: Tweets as electronic word of mouth
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Assessing global diffusion with Web memetics: The spread and evolution of a popular joke
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life
Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life
CoLIS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Context: conceptions of Library and Information Sciences
Imagined communities: awareness, information sharing, and privacy on the facebook
PET'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Hi-index | 0.00 |
There are many personal and social issues that are rarely discussed in public and hence are difficult to study. Recently, however, the huge uptake of blogs, forums, and social network sites has created spaces in which previously private topics are publicly discussed, giving a new opportunity for researchers investigating such topics. This article describes a range of simple techniques to access personal information relevant to social research questions and illustrates them with small case studies. It also discusses ethical considerations, concluding that the default position is almost the reverse of that for traditional social science research: the text authors should not be asked for consent nor informed of the participation of their texts. Normally, however, steps should be taken to ensure that text authors are anonymous in academic publications even when their texts and identities are already public.