In the next installment of our semi-regular group calls about documenting social media datasets on September 28 at 10am ET we will be talking with Sara Mannheimer (Montana State University) and Elizabeth Hull (Dryad). Sara and Elizabeth are going to briefly present some research that they’ve done into the open sharing of social media datasets. Specifically they will discuss the STEP framework that they developed for thinking about issues of sensitivity, transparency, expectation of privacy, and platform. If you want to join in please email [email protected] (if you haven’t attended before) and be sure to check out there (openly accessible) paper on the topic beforehand:
Mannheimer, S. and Hull, E. (2017). Sharing selves: Developing an ethical framework for curating social media data. International Journal of Digital Curation, 12(2):196–209.
Open sharing of social media data raises new ethical questions that researchers, repositories, and data curators must confront, with little existing guidance available. In this paper, the authors draw upon their experiences in their multiple roles as data curators, academic librarians, and researchers to propose the STEP framework for curating and sharing social media data. The framework is intended to be used by data curators facilitating open publication of social media data. Two case studies from the Dryad Digital Repository serve to demonstrate implementation of the STEP framework. The STEP framework can serve as one important “step” along the path to achieving safe, ethical, and reproducible social media research practice.
This session builds on our previous call in which Nick Proferes walked us through the the AoIR Ethics Guidelines (slides). We hope you can join us!