Ethics and privacy in social media data analysis

[You can find the lecture slides here]

Beyond the class discussion, this session is supplemented best by recommended readings.

Recommended Readings

1. Ten simple rules for responsible big data research. Zook et al. (2017)

2. Responses to Critiques on Machine Learning of Criminality Perceptions (Addendum of arXiv:1611.04135), Wu and Zhang (2017)

3. Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Kramer et al, PNAS (2014)

4. Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior (Kosinski et al, 2013)

Additional Readings

• Internet Research: Ethical Guidelines 3.0. Association of Internet Researchers (2019)

• Users’ Views of Ethics in Social Media Research: Informed Consent, Anonymity, and Harm. Williams et al, 2017

• Collective Aspects of Privacy in the Twitter Social Network. D. Garcia, M. Goel, A. Agrawal, P. Kumaraguru, EPJ Data Science, 7(3) (2018)