Linking Survey and Twitter Data: Informed Consent, Disclosure, Security, and Archiving

Linking Survey and Twitter Data: Informed Consent, Disclosure, Security, and Archiving

Web Archiving

In this academic journal, the authors discuss how the survey aspect of social media, Twitter in particular, presents an opportunity for a new way to collect data. It goes on to explain the complications in ethics that requires “a deeper understanding of the nature and composition of Twitter data to fully appreciate the risks of disclosure and harm to participants.” The authors discuss three studies and how they have to do with informed consent regarding archiving social media content. Due to the concern the information might not be meant to be shared, they discuss how to maintain ethics while keeping the nature of the shared information in mind in this discussion.
I found this journal to be informative regarding the ethics of media archiving with new considerations such as polls on Twitter and accounts that are not meaning to pander to the masses. I appreciate how the authors use recent studies to discuss the issue at hand. I like how it explores what the “good ethical practice” is in an archiving world that is constantly changing. I think even if the information changes over time, this will hold to be interesting as a piece of history. I believe what is “good ethical practice” will continue to shift and change, but this paper holds a piece of history as to what archivists believe to be ethical now.

Al Baghal, Tarek; Jessop, Curtis; Sloan, Luke; Williams, Matthew

Social Science Computer Review

2019-06-21

Alexis Cosio

Online Journal

Sloan, Luke, Curtis Jessop, Tarek Al Baghal, and Matthew Williams. “Linking Survey and Twitter Data: Informed Consent, Disclosure, Security, and Archiving.” Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics 15, no. 1–2 (February 2020): 63–76. doi:10.1177/1556264619853447.