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Considering the ethics of big data research: A case of Twitter and ISIS/ISIL
1Center for Applied Ethics, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin, United States of America.
Abstract:
This is a formal commentary, responding to Matthew Curran Benigni, Kenneth Joseph, and Kathleen Carley's contribution, "Online extremism and the communities that sustain it: Detecting the ISIS supporting community on Twitter". This brief review reflects on the ethics of big data research methodologies, and how novel methods complicate long-standing principles of research ethics. Specifically, the concept of the "data subject" as a corollary, or replacement, of "human subject" is considered.
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