Speaker
Mrs
Anne Alexander
Description
What ethical challenges does the pervasive use of social media platforms for personal and public communication in many societies pose for researchers? How do the challenges of doing research 'in' a social-media platform overlap with those posed by research 'on' social media platforms? Focusing on case studies drawn from the study of social movements in online environments, I will argue that a critical awareness of the architecture and political economy of social media platforms and their relationship with other forms of mass media is crucial to ethical research practice both when using social media data for research and when researching the use of social media to communicate.
