Conducting Research on Twitter

Lightning short deck of slides for CSCW Workshop on Measuring Social Network Privacy.

1. CONDUCTING RESEARCH ON TWITTER: A CALL FOR GUIDELINES & METRICS Patrick Gage Kelley Manya Sleeper Justin Cranshaw
2. DATA COLLECTION AND ETHICAL ISSUES THAT ARISE DURING TWITTER RESEARCH Data available through API may be limited IRBs may not fully understand Twitter research Need to filter data for desired users (e.g., random, by language, type of user) Many studies violate the Twitter TOS
3. …LEAVE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER AS A COMMUNITY 1. How should we report measures taken to account for limitations in data from the Twitter API? 2. What are best practices for sampling and filtering data and for reporting these processes? 3. How can we account for violations of the Twitter TOS when conducting our research? 4. What are best practices for Twitter privacy research when considering the ethics of our research?
4. THANK YOU @patrickgage @compurbanist Patrick Gage Kelley Manya Sleeper Justin Cranshaw