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NLP for sentiment analysis of social media comment
by Nina Lasek 16 Jul '18

16 Jul '18

Dear all, most sentiment analyses of social media comments I know use dictionary-based approaches (e.g. sentigstrength). However, I am wondering if researchers also use Natural Language Processing approaches to examine the sentiment of social media comments; I am still an absolute beginner in this field, hence I would be very glad if somebody could point me to useful papers/tutorials/software for doing NLP based sentiment analyses? Many thanks, Nina

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For those attending ISA World Congress of Sociology
by David Dueñas Cid 15 Jul '18

15 Jul '18

Dear AOIRs, I don't know if this is the place where to debate this issue, if not, just tell me and I will find another way of doing so. Next week will take place the ISA World Congress of Sociology in Toronto, where I plan to take part with, I guess, many other members of this list of distribution. As it usually happens in big/generalistic conferences, checking the program to find interesting presentations focused on internet and society represents a big effort of patience. Commonly, internet scholars are widely distributed in different Research Comittees, showing the diversity of our researh topics and making difficult the connection between us. An interesting congress schedule, as a result, means a complicated set of overlapped presentations amongst which one needs to blind-decide what to see and what to discard. There, my debate/question/almost-proposition: *Does anybody feels like trying to discuss something for next ISA conferences in order to gather "Internet Sociology" scholars/contents? * I am not aware of the internal processes of ISA, I do not know if it is possible to create a new "Reserch Comittee" on this topic, or, even, if it would be convenient. Or if, simply, we could think on different way of organizing the information regarding this topic on ISA Conferences (having some sort of inter-group label to identify the topic). Even that, I think that it might be an interesting debate. If there is some people interested, maybe we could: *1) Use this mail as a discussion thread* *2) Find a moment/place to meet in Toronto next week and talk face-to-face about it.* Best regards, David Duenas-Cid _______________________________ *Dr. David Dueñas-Cid *Researcher *Tallinn University of Technology* *Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance *Akadeemia tee 3 EE-12618 Tallinn

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Re: [Air-L] NLP for sentiment analysis of social media comment
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 15 Jul '18

15 Jul '18

Some references that will help on this topic. Chapter 32: Sentiment Analysis, Mike Thelwall, In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781473983847.n32 — and other chapters in this book. My review of the book briefly summarizes what’s in each chapter — I recommend the whole collection! Haythornthwaite, C. (2017). Review of Luke Sloan and Anabel Quan-Haase (Eds.)(2017) “The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods”, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. Journal of the Association of Information Science and Technology, 69(9), 625-630.. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.23957/full. Other work See that of Anatoliy Gruzd and his social media lab (http://socialmedialab.ca/author/gruzd/) and the Netlytic program for text analysis (http://socialmedialab.ca/apps/netlytic/) With Anatoliy and colleagues we have just finished a paper on the human coding side of NLP (but not gone on to the automated analysis yet) of some Reddit subreddits. This is the forthcoming paper (also a HICSS conf paper from Jan 2018, but the paper has results of applying the coding). Kumar, P., Gruzd, A., Haythornthwaite, C., Gilbert, S., Esteve del Valle, M. & Paulin, D. (January 2018). Learning in the wild: Coding Reddit for learning and practice. 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Big Island, HI. Haythornthwaite, C., Kumar, P., Gruzd, A., Gilbert, S., Esteve Del Valle, M., & Paulin, D. (2018, in press). Learning in the Wild: Coding for Learning and Practice on Reddit. Learning, Media and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2018.1498356 /Caroline > Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 14:51:08 +0000 > From: Nina Lasek <Nina.Lasek1(a)hotmail.com> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] NLP for sentiment analysis of social media comment > Message-ID: > <VI1PR0202MB35045F32EFFEBDFF29E8D915A85F0(a)VI1PR0202MB3504.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear all, > > most sentiment analyses of social media comments I know use dictionary-based approaches (e.g. sentigstrength). However, I am wondering if researchers also use Natural Language Processing approaches to examine the sentiment of social media comments; I am still an absolute beginner in this field, hence I would be very glad if somebody could point me to useful papers/tutorials/software for doing NLP based sentiment analyses? > > Many thanks, > Nina > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 15:15:21 +0000 > From: "Astvansh, Vivek" <astvansh(a)iu.edu> > To: Nina Lasek <Nina.Lasek1(a)hotmail.com>, "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" > <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] NLP for sentiment analysis of social media > comment > Message-ID: <1531581325827.65343(a)iu.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, Nina: > > Yes; some scholars (particularly in the past, when field-specific dictionaries, such as one in finance, were not available) used their own supervised machine-learning method. This method comprised: (a) using human beings (e.g., MTurkers) to classify text into positive, negative, and neutral sentiment, (b) using this human classification to train a classifier (Lasso or support vector machine), and lastly, (c) using the trained model to classify the holdout sample. As you can guess, this is quite some work and perhaps not required when the relevant dictionary is readily available and you have a program that uses this dictionary to classify text. > > You can search Google Scholar to find articles that use human annotations and machine-learning classifiers and follow this supervised machine-learning approach. > > Best wishes! > Vivek Astvansh > Assistant Professor of Marketing > Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Bloomington >

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Including screennames with tweets
by Hayes, Rebecca M 14 Jul '18

14 Jul '18

Dear All, Can you please weigh in on the decision to include or not include screennames when we cite tweets in a book? The book is on new media and crime, and we are using tweets in a few places as examples of some different discussions. We are back and forth on whether we should include the screennames and at others or disclude them. The arguments we have seen thus far, are to include them because it was made public and we are citing someones words. The other argument is to disclude them as the person did not consent to have it printed in that way persay, and the screenname attached in our book could be used to find and harass the person. What are your thoughts? Thank you, Becky

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Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets
by QCENTRAL 14 Jul '18

14 Jul '18

Hey all, Really enjoying this thread. There’s a great presentation by Melissa Cheyney and Lisa Leventhal, offered by Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research, called “Reviewing Research on Data from Social Media Posts: When is it Within our Scope?” https://youtu.be/hpqgTp9qlJY Their presentation does a very nice job of outlining ways to think through when, how, if you deanonymize people’s social media posts. TL;DR (from a person who spends a LOT of time thinking about this): Funny to see this conversation seem so fresh…we’ve been thinking about this for a long time and there’s a ton of established norms at our fingertips, including the ethics docs written by AoIR. But, definitely, this stuff can be hard. There isn’t one right answer. Every research question will come with its set of ethical concerns. For me, the quickest route to figuring out what to do with any online data is to ask myself “Who benefits from what I do?” For researchers doing scholarship in the public’s interest (e.g., if you’re a student or faculty member at an institution of higher ed or organization meant to serve the public interest or want your research to contribute to our understanding of the world), then, first and foremost, the people we involve in our research—willingly, we hope, but sometimes caught in our dragnets—get first dibs on benefits. At the very least, our obligation is to respect people’s autonomy—their right to choose—and do our best not to introduce more risks to their lives because they participated in our research. Once their needs are met, all other stakeholders—from the individual researcher and her institution/company to Science (!) get to benefit. So, if I list a person’s Twitter handle because Twitter’s TOS says that I should, who benefits? Does the participant, first and foremost benefit or, at least, not suffer from my decision, especially if I had no way to give them a say in the matter? That’s one way to approach these questions. For me, it’s the best way to know that I’m always advancing the interests of the human participant over my own interests (and that’s my obligation as a researcher…if I want to advance my own interests first I should probably not be a researcher for the public interest). For those who might say “but I can’t find out if someone wants to be a part of my research from scraping their tweets?” I’d say: yep. That’s an ethical dilemma that sprouts from your methodology. So, what are you going to do to at least try to respect this human being providing you awesome tweets for analysis?” One easy thing we can do: don’t name them in ways that set them up for Doxxing, even if you don’t think they should care about that or that it’s likely to happen (you don’t know if they have ex-lovers stalking them who’d love to have their name in your pub to add further flames to the fire). At the very least ask: “who benefits from me listing their Twitter handle?” If they aren’t at the top of the list, then there’s work to do to make sure they aren’t taking the fall when other people advance from the use of their names. Stopping there. : ) Mary -- -- Mary L. Gray Senior Researcher and Ethics Advisory Board Chair Microsoft Research Associate Professor School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering Affiliate Faculty of Anthropology, Gender Studies, and The Media School Indiana University Fellow Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society Harvard University 1. Re: Including screennames with tweets (Craig Hamilton) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:32:28 +0000 From: Craig Hamilton This is a great discussion, and I?m glad to be part of it. It occurs to me that the fact people on this list in particular don?t have a hard and fast answers demonstrates what a tricky issue this is. I don?t have the answer either, but for what its worth I can share my own approach and thoughts. I?ve collected from Twitter and other social media channels for a project dating back to 2013. The tweets in my particularly instance are volunteered to a specific, unique hashtag (#harkive), rather than harvested from keywords. Even so, I?ve taken the decision not to use usernames in articles/chapters/presentations. I provide a way via my project website for people to have their data permanently removed but, as I guess we all know, anyone who enters the text of a tweet into Google will almost certainly be able to find the original author if they want to. Once a tweet and/or a username is printed in a physical book, or a PDF made available online, then I would see that as beyond my control - in other words, removing a tweet from my database would not remove it from the copies in circulation. My feeling is that excluding usernames mitigates potential risks somewhat, but it doesn?t remove those risks entirely. If I were working with data harvested from keywords - and if consen! t had not been given - then I would have misgivings about both verbatim quotes and usernames, and certainly if the subject matter of the tweets and/or article had any obvious potential to cause harm. Kind regards Craig On 13 Jul 2018, at 19:13, Tarleton L. Gillespie <tlg28(a)cornell.edu<mailto:tlg28@cornell.edu>> wrote: I think someone who administers IRB would disagree. Even if we take tweets to be public statements, and even if we the users in this case fully understood them as public, there are different values to think about. As researchers, our obligation is to recognize that including people in our work, however valuable to the research, can come at a cost for the people made into subjects of that research; part of the commitment to being a researcher then means respecting people's autonomy and treating them ethically, "not only by respecting their decisions and protecting them from harm, but also by making efforts to secure their well-being" (http://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/EP/EP713_ResearchEthics/EP713_Re…) Instead of "If you choose to exclude, you will have to explain why" I think IRB principles would say it?s the reverse: if you're including the identity of your research subjects, you will have to explain why -- and probably to them. Paula, by the end your comment seems to imply that what's at issue is whether to quote the tweet itself ("very risky"), but I think all that is being discussed here is identifying its author. I totally have the gut instinct to want to credit people, it's deeply ingrained in how we work. But the tweets in this case are not secondary sources of scholarship, they're being selected and used as examples. Other tweets could similarly have been chosen to make the same point. Their value is not that they were posted by person X, but that they sound a certain way or address a certain topic. I would err on the side of protecting the person, because I can't anticipate the harm and can't anticipate their framework for understanding and can't anticipate how they'd feel about their words being used as an object of my research -- unless, of course, I sought their actual consent, as Casey suggested. This conversation is really helping me think about this, thanks all. Tarleton ?On 7/13/18, 1:46 PM, "Air-L on behalf of paula todd" <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of paulatoddmedia(a)gmail.com<mailto:paulatoddmedia@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, a few thoughts ... Screen names are often creations/public projections and forms of agency, important/expressive in their own way. Signature selections are integral to the full social media message. Exclusion, then, is a form of censorship. If you choose to exclude, you will have to explain why. If the only reason is because someone who uses social media may not understand that their content is public and can therefore (legally) be reproduced or re-mediated on any platform, the same logic could apply to reproducing public content of any type. Very risky. The only cases I could justify such editorializing (selecting which parts of a communication to share) parallel general defamation and hate speech limitations. Social media is public, and of the public sphere; those who want to create private/privileged communication use peer-to-peer, offline, direct messaging, telephone *et al.* Paula *Paula Todd* B.A., LLB.(J.D.), PhD Can. (Digital Journalism) York & Ryerson Universities Toronto, Canada On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 2:23 AM, Hayes, Rebecca M <hayes2r(a)cmich.edu<mailto:hayes2r@cmich.edu>> wrote: Dear All, Can you please weigh in on the decision to include or not include screennames when we cite tweets in a book? The book is on new media and crime, and we are using tweets in a few places as examples of some different discussions. We are back and forth on whether we should include the screennames and at others or disclude them. The arguments we have seen thus far, are to include them because it was made public and we are citing someones words. The other argument is to disclude them as the person did not consent to have it printed in that way persay, and the screenname attached in our book could be used to find and harass the person. What are your thoughts? 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Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University
by Mark Carrigan 14 Jul '18

14 Jul '18

*Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University**December 13th-14th, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge* In recent discussions of capitalism, the notion of the ‘platform’ has come to play a prominent role in conceptualising our present circumstances and imagining our potential futures. There are criticisms which can be raised of the platform-as-metaphor, however we believe it provides a useful hook through which to make sense of how socio-technical innovations may be leading to a new phase of capitalist accumulation. To talk of ‘platform capitalism’ in this sense does not exclude consideration of parallel notions such as digital capitalism, data capitalism and surveillance capitalism but rather seeks to frame these considerations through a focus upon the platform as a novel assemblage. While research into social media and the sharing economy is relatively advanced, the increasing centrality of platforms to the operation of the university remains understudied and undertheorised. Our conference seeks to rectify this, raising the possibility of the ‘platform university’ as a provocation to stimulate discussion concerning platforms, the commercial and academic science they depend upon and contribute to reshaping, as well as their implications for the future of the university. We see the university as a case study for inquiry into platforms, but also as a horizon of change within which the social sciences seek to address these processes. We invite papers which address the full range of questions posed by these considerations, including topics such as: - *The ontology of platforms* - *The epistemology of platforms* - *Methodological challenges in studying platforms* - *The transformation of the social sciences* - *The politics and political economy of platforms* - *Platforms as evaluative infrastructures* - *Platform education and the platform university * There will be a keynote by Ben Williamson <https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/18084> on *The expanding data infrastructure of higher education: public-private policy networks and platform plug-ins*. We welcome abstracts of 500 words or less by July 31st 2018, sent to mac228(a)cam.ac.uk. Please include a brief biographical note, as well as three key words to categorise your submission. We also plan to publish a select set of papers as a special issue or edited book and are in conversation with journal editors and publishers. We hope to have limited travel and accommodation funding available for unfunded PhD students and post-docs but cannot confirm this at present.

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CfP w/ extended deadline: ComplexRec 2018 (2nd Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios)
by Toine Bogers 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Due to several requests we have extended the original workshop deadline for: ======================================================== FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios (ComplexRec 2018) http://complexrec2018.aau.dk Co-located with RecSys 2018, Vancouver, Canada October 7, 2018 ======================================================== --------------- Important dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline: July 20, 2018 at midnight (NEW DEADLINE) * Notification of acceptance: August 13, 2018 * Camera-ready deadline: August 27, 2018 * ComplexRec 2018 Workshop: October 7, 2018 ------------------------ Description & Objectives ------------------------ Over the past decade, recommendation algorithms for ratings prediction and item ranking have steadily matured. However, these state-of-the-art algorithms are typically applied in relatively straightforward scenarios. In reality, recommendation is often a more complex problem: it is usually just a single step in the user's more complex background need. These background needs can often place a variety of constraints on which recommendations are interesting to the user and when they are appropriate. However, relatively little research has been done on these complex recommendation scenarios. The ComplexRec 2018 workshop aims to address this by providing an interactive venue for discussing approaches to recommendation in complex scenarios that have no simple one-size-fits-all solution. It is the follow-up to the successful first ComplexRec workshop at RecSys 2017. ------------------ Topics of interest ------------------ We invite original contributions about recommendation in complex scenarios. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Task-based recommendation -- Approaches that take the user's background tasks and needs into account when generating recommendations * Feature-driven recommendation -- Techniques for eliciting, capturing and integrating rich information about user preferences for specific product features * Constraint-based recommendation -- Approaches that successfully combine state-of-the-art recommendation algorithms with complex knowledge-based or constraint-based optimization * Query-driven recommendation -- Techniques for eliciting and incorporating rich information about the user's recommendation need (e.g., need for accessibility, engagement, socio-cultural values, familiarity, etc.) in addition to the standard user preference information * Interactive recommendation -- Techniques for successfully capturing, weighting, and integrating continuous user feedback into recommender systems, both in situations of sparse and rich user interaction * Context-aware recommendation -- Methods for the extraction and integration of complex contextual signals for recommendation * Complex data sources -- Approaches to dealing with complex data sources and how to infer user preferences from these sources * Evaluation & validation -- Approaches to the evaluation and validation of recommendation in complex scenarios ----------- Submissions ----------- We encourage authors to submit short papers and position papers of 2-4 pages in length dedicated to any aspect of recommendation in complex scenarios. Accepted submissions will then be invited for short 10-minute presentations with equal time for discussion. Evaluation criteria for acceptance will include novelty, diversity, significance for theory/practice, quality of presentation, and the potential for sparking interesting discussion at the workshop. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop. All submissions should be in English and should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) and submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=complexrec2018) Submissions will be published in the workshop proceedings. ---------- Organizers ---------- * Toine Bogers (toine(a)hum.aau.dk) Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark * Marijn Koolen (marijn.koolen(a)di.huc.knaw.nl) KNAW Humanities Cluster, the Netherlands * Bamshad Mobasher (mobasher(a)cs.depaul.edu) DePaul University, USA * Casper Petersen (cap(a)sampension.dk) Sampension, Denmark * Alan Said (alansaid(a)acm.org) University of Skövde, Sweden For further questions, please contact a member of the organizing committee.

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Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets
by André Brock 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Many of the suggestions I’ve read are...ok, but all of them miss a critical consideration IMO. That is, Twitter screennames are NOT the same as Twitter userids. Screennames can be (and are often) changed, while userid is the actual address to which tweets are delivered. IN some cases, the screennames is an additional Twitter-enabled paratext providing context for the tweet itself! Thus, by anonymizing screennames, you’re glossing the tweet AND the user, placing your interpretation over that of the twitter user. While this may seem like a pedantic difference, it’s of crucial importance for my own work on Black Twitter and Black discursive identity; i find it hard to believe that screenname creativity/invention isn’t important for others studying underrepresented groups on the service. Moreover, the earlier point about attribution is important as well; Black twitter users (among others) are becoming increasingly protective about their perceived ownership of the content they generate online. IF y’all are simply talking ‘bout anonymizing USERID, then i don’t have a problem. While i agree mostly with Theo that Twitter is a public space - and moreover, that the Twitter users i study are agonizingly aware of how public their tweets are - i also exercise judgement when analyzing tweets of a sensitive nature. I have and will continue to ask those Twitter users publishing sensitive content whether i can use their material in my publicly funded, published research with no compensation. In several cases, users have agreed because they feel the subject matter is important, but in many more they have declined. I know that IRB/ethics training is insufficient to determine ‘sensitivity’, but i also have the guidance of many of you excellent academics to rely upon as well. TTFN, A. André Brock Associate Professor of Black Digital Studies Department of Literature, Media, and Communication Georgia Institute of Technology Research Repository: https://umich.academia.edu/AndréBrock E: andre.brock(a)gmail.com Twitter: @docdre I'd love to connect. Here's my calendar link (https://calendly.com/andre-brock) to make finding time easy. > > On Jul 13, 2018 at 12:07 PM, <Air-L-Request (mailto:air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org)> wrote: > > > > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Including screennames with tweets (Proferes, Nicholas) > 2. Re: For those attending ISA World Congress of Sociology > (MC Cambre) > 3. Re: Including screennames with tweets (Tarleton L. Gillespie) > 4. Re: Including screennames with tweets (Theo Plothe) > 5. Re: Including screennames with tweets (Casey Lynn Fiesler) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:17:22 +0000 > From: "Proferes, Nicholas" <nproferes(a)uky.edu> > To: Judith Rosenbaum-Andre <judith.rosenbaumandre(a)maine.edu>, > "daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk" <daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> > Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets > Message-ID: > <BN7PR03MB346028E9E27D7811093820A5A3580(a)BN7PR03MB3460.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > Hi all, > > > Casey Fiesler and I recently published an article on Twitter users? perceptions of the use of tweets in research (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2056305118763366) > > > One of our findings from the study was that when we asked, "How would you feel if a Tweet of yours was used in a research study and your Tweet was quoted in a published research paper, attributed to your Twitter handle?" only about ~24% of respondents indicated that they would be comfortable with this. > > > There's obviously a lot of situations in which including Twitter handles is appropriate (quoting public figures seems like a pretty clear cut case), but I do think it might be worth taking user expectations into consideration in that contextual decision, particularly if you are working with populations subject to harassment/bullying. > > > Cheers, > > Nick > > ________________________________ > From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Judith Rosenbaum-Andre <judith.rosenbaumandre(a)maine.edu> > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 6:45:06 AM > To: daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk > Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets > > I just recently published a book on Twitter, race, and gender, and my > publisher was very insistent I did use people's Twitter handles. For > clarification, I used all publicly available tweets. I went back and forth > on it myself a few times (and still every once in a while wake up in the > middle of the night thinking, "did I do the right thing?!"), but ended up > agreeing with them. Their argument, per Twitter's ToS, was that people's > tweets should be treated as you would an in-text citation (e.g., "Hayes > said"), as they are their thoughts and ideas, expressed in a public forum, > and thus they have earned the right to be credited for them (almost on a > par with copyright). Because I used public tweets anyone could and can > still find the tweets even if I hadn't listed the screen name, which > renders the argument that we need to protect their identity somewhat moot. > In my book, I discuss some pretty awful statements though, and I did make > sure to not choose tweets as examples that could really get people into > trouble with their employer, for instance, and would instead use more > innocuous tweets to illustrate my point. This kind of research, because I > use public tweets, falls outside of our IRB's scope, as they consider it > public information on a par with analyzing media content and thus > non-human-subjects research. > I don't know if this helps at all - I think it's a tough issue to deal > with, and both decisions, like you said, have their pros and cons. > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 4:27 AM Daniel Thomas < > daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Dear Becky, > > > > My understanding, though I haven't been involved in Twitter research > > myself, is that academics in the US have mostly decided it is fine to > > include screennames and that academics in the UK have mostly decided it > > is not OK to include screennames. I think that Twitter ToS require the > > sceennames to be included and allow publication as long as the full > > tweet is published (including sceenname). However, publishing without > > the sceenname is not permitted (this is second hand information so I may > > be wrong). The other issue is that even if sceennames are not included > > then it is easy to find the author from the content of the tweet and so > > the authors are still trivially deanonymised. Minor tweaks to > > punctuation/wording are apparently also insufficient as Twitter's search > > function will still normally find the original tweet. > > Depending on the research method you are using it may be possible to > > write your own synthesised example tweets that are representative of the > > kind of things people say. However, I know that for some methods/fields > > that is not possible. > > > > I think it is a question where you will want your Research Ethics > > Board/IRB to sign off on your answer. > > > > Helena Webb <helena.webb(a)cs.ox.ac.uk> from the University of Oxford > > might be a good person to talk to about this because she uses a similar > > Twitter example in her research ethics case studies at the workshops she > > runs. She did research that she was not able to publish because she ran > > into this problem and was not able to find a solution that protected the > > tweeters and was publishable. > > > > Daniel > > > > On 13/07/18 07:23, Hayes, Rebecca M wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > Can you please weigh in on the decision to include or not include > > screennames > > > when we cite tweets in a book? The book is on new media and crime, > > > and we are using tweets in a few places as examples of some different > > discussions. > > > > > > We are back and forth on whether we should include the screennames and > > at others or disclude them. The arguments we have seen thus far, are to > > include them because it was made public and we are citing someones words. > > The other argument is to disclude them > > > as the person did not consent to have it printed in that way persay, and > > the screenname attached in our book could be used to find and harass the > > person. What are your thoughts? > > > > > > Thank you, > > > Becky > > > _______________________________________________ > > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&am… > > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.ao… > > > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.or… > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&am… > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.ao… > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.or… > > > > > -- > Judith E. Rosenbaum, PhD > Assistant Professor > Department of Communication and Journalism > University of Maine > 414 Dunn Hall > Orono, ME 04469 > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.juditherosenbaum.com… > @JudithRBaum > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&am… > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.ao… > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.or… > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:24:09 -0400 > From: MC Cambre <mcambre(a)ualberta.ca> > To: David Due?as Cid <david.duenas(a)gmail.com> > Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] For those attending ISA World Congress of > Sociology > Message-ID: > <CALyQN4oDCMk4aH1Da=pDf9bhxV8O8+FE-CA8vJn68ZX4-CjXFw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Dear David and others who will be at the ISA, > > There is certainly, as you observed a great deal of cross-fertilization > between different sociological research areas and the focus on the > internet. The internal process, I believe is that you start out as a > thematic group, and after time you become a working group, and then meeting > certain requirements for numbers (I guess) you apply to become a research > committee. > > The conference will host over 5000 delegates and the abstract book alone is > over 1000 pages, so I tend to stay within Visual Sociology, which often > includes a great deal of internet research. Feel free to reach out and > connect in Toronto. > > Kindly, > carolina cambre > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 9:13 AM, David Due?as Cid <david.duenas(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Dear AOIRs, > > > > I don't know if this is the place where to debate this issue, if not, just > > tell me and I will find another way of doing so. > > > > Next week will take place the ISA World Congress of Sociology in Toronto, > > where I plan to take part with, I guess, many other members of this list of > > distribution. > > > > As it usually happens in big/generalistic conferences, checking the program > > to find interesting presentations focused on internet and society > > represents a big effort of patience. Commonly, internet scholars are widely > > distributed in different Research Comittees, showing the diversity of our > > researh topics and making difficult the connection between us. An > > interesting congress schedule, as a result, means a complicated set of > > overlapped presentations amongst which one needs to blind-decide what to > > see and what to discard. > > > > There, my debate/question/almost-proposition: *Does anybody feels like > > trying to discuss something for next ISA conferences in order to gather > > "Internet Sociology" scholars/contents? * > > > > I am not aware of the internal processes of ISA, I do not know if it is > > possible to create a new "Reserch Comittee" on this topic, or, even, if it > > would be convenient. Or if, simply, we could think on different way of > > organizing the information regarding this topic on ISA Conferences (having > > some sort of inter-group label to identify the topic). Even that, I think > > that it might be an interesting debate. > > > > If there is some people interested, maybe we could: > > > > *1) Use this mail as a discussion thread* > > *2) Find a moment/place to meet in Toronto next week and talk face-to-face > > about it.* > > > > Best regards, > > > > David Duenas-Cid > > > > _______________________________ > > > > > > > > > > *Dr. David Due?as-Cid *Researcher > > > > > > > > *Tallinn University of Technology* > > > > > > *Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance *Akadeemia tee 3 > > > > EE-12618 Tallinn > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ > > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > > -- > -- > > > > > > > *Dr. Carolina Cambre PhD Assistant Professor Concordia University, > Montr?alhttps://concordia.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre > <https://concordia.academia.edu/mariacarolinacambre>https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/education/faculty.html?fpid=carolina-cambre > <https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/education/faculty.html?fpid=carolina-cambre>* > <http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:27:12 +0000 > From: "Tarleton L. Gillespie" <tlg28(a)cornell.edu> > To: "Proferes, Nicholas" <nproferes(a)uky.edu>, Judith Rosenbaum-Andre > <judith.rosenbaumandre(a)maine.edu>, "daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk" > <daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> > Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets > Message-ID: <65C8A412-3302-4E8C-9711-24F963C34B91(a)cornell.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Out of curiosity, I scanned through Twitter's ToS and related policies; I didn't see anything indicating how they want a tweet to be cited. Maybe it did in earlier versions, or I just missed it. But even so, it's not clear how Twitter's ToS has any standing or relevance to what a researcher does, as they're not the person contracting with Twitter in that contract. We could take their advice in to account, but I think Nick and Casey's point is the right one. What's the added value to the research of including the person's Twitter handle in the publication, such that it overcomes the possible discomfort and possible harm it could bring? It's surprising to me how often adding the handle / the name of the speaker / the interviewee really doesn't add to the analysis -- that we may be doing it more because it's what journalists do, or because we want to perform that it?s a legit tweet, or out of habit. Our instinct should not be how much can I publish based on what rights I think people ha > ve given up, but how far can I go to protect people and still make the cogent analysis the discussion requires. > > Tarleton > > > > > > > > ?On 7/13/18, 11:17 AM, "Air-L on behalf of Proferes, Nicholas" <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org on behalf of nproferes(a)uky.edu> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > Casey Fiesler and I recently published an article on Twitter users? perceptions of the use of tweets in research (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2056305118763366) > > > One of our findings from the study was that when we asked, "How would you feel if a Tweet of yours was used in a research study and your Tweet was quoted in a published research paper, attributed to your Twitter handle?" only about ~24% of respondents indicated that they would be comfortable with this. > > > There's obviously a lot of situations in which including Twitter handles is appropriate (quoting public figures seems like a pretty clear cut case), but I do think it might be worth taking user expectations into consideration in that contextual decision, particularly if you are working with populations subject to harassment/bullying. > > > Cheers, > > Nick > > ________________________________ > From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Judith Rosenbaum-Andre <judith.rosenbaumandre(a)maine.edu> > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 6:45:06 AM > To: daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk > Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets > > I just recently published a book on Twitter, race, and gender, and my > publisher was very insistent I did use people's Twitter handles. For > clarification, I used all publicly available tweets. I went back and forth > on it myself a few times (and still every once in a while wake up in the > middle of the night thinking, "did I do the right thing?!"), but ended up > agreeing with them. Their argument, per Twitter's ToS, was that people's > tweets should be treated as you would an in-text citation (e.g., "Hayes > said"), as they are their thoughts and ideas, expressed in a public forum, > and thus they have earned the right to be credited for them (almost on a > par with copyright). Because I used public tweets anyone could and can > still find the tweets even if I hadn't listed the screen name, which > renders the argument that we need to protect their identity somewhat moot. > In my book, I discuss some pretty awful statements though, and I did make > sure to not choose tweets as examples that could really get people into > trouble with their employer, for instance, and would instead use more > innocuous tweets to illustrate my point. This kind of research, because I > use public tweets, falls outside of our IRB's scope, as they consider it > public information on a par with analyzing media content and thus > non-human-subjects research. > I don't know if this helps at all - I think it's a tough issue to deal > with, and both decisions, like you said, have their pros and cons. > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 4:27 AM Daniel Thomas < > daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Dear Becky, > > > > My understanding, though I haven't been involved in Twitter research > > myself, is that academics in the US have mostly decided it is fine to > > include screennames and that academics in the UK have mostly decided it > > is not OK to include screennames. I think that Twitter ToS require the > > sceennames to be included and allow publication as long as the full > > tweet is published (including sceenname). However, publishing without > > the sceenname is not permitted (this is second hand information so I may > > be wrong). The other issue is that even if sceennames are not included > > then it is easy to find the author from the content of the tweet and so > > the authors are still trivially deanonymised. Minor tweaks to > > punctuation/wording are apparently also insufficient as Twitter's search > > function will still normally find the original tweet. > > Depending on the research method you are using it may be possible to > > write your own synthesised example tweets that are representative of the > > kind of things people say. However, I know that for some methods/fields > > that is not possible. > > > > I think it is a question where you will want your Research Ethics > > Board/IRB to sign off on your answer. > > > > Helena Webb <helena.webb(a)cs.ox.ac.uk> from the University of Oxford > > might be a good person to talk to about this because she uses a similar > > Twitter example in her research ethics case studies at the workshops she > > runs. She did research that she was not able to publish because she ran > > into this problem and was not able to find a solution that protected the > > tweeters and was publishable. > > > > Daniel > > > > On 13/07/18 07:23, Hayes, Rebecca M wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > Can you please weigh in on the decision to include or not include > > screennames > > > when we cite tweets in a book? The book is on new media and crime, > > > and we are using tweets in a few places as examples of some different > > discussions. > > > > > > We are back and forth on whether we should include the screennames and > > at others or disclude them. The arguments we have seen thus far, are to > > include them because it was made public and we are citing someones words. > > The other argument is to disclude them > > > as the person did not consent to have it printed in that way persay, and > > the screenname attached in our book could be used to find and harass the > > person. What are your thoughts? > > > > > > Thank you, > > > Becky > > > _______________________________________________ > > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&am… > > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.ao… > > > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.or… > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&am… > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.ao… > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.or… > > > > > -- > Judith E. Rosenbaum, PhD > Assistant Professor > Department of Communication and Journalism > University of Maine > 414 Dunn Hall > Orono, ME 04469 > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.juditherosenbaum.com… > @JudithRBaum > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&am… > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.ao… > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.or… > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 10:41:45 -0500 > From: Theo Plothe <tp6316a(a)student.american.edu> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets > Message-ID: > <CAOzAoFF31=XZ_s7zEMgAPNYuhAnikmwkAHrLqFVEMv=XA8-XsQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Twitter is a public forum in the public sphere. There is no expectation of > anonymity on speech in that regard. Having published a few pieces on > Twitter including a book chapter just a few weeks ago, I have never failed > to publish the screennames on the se accounts. The only reason not to > include tweets is if the tweets are from a protected account, which is of > course is not part of the public timeline. > > Best, > Theo > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:07:54 +0000 > From: Casey Lynn Fiesler <Casey.Fiesler(a)Colorado.EDU> > To: "Tarleton L. Gillespie" <tlg28(a)cornell.edu> > Cc: "Proferes, Nicholas" <nproferes(a)uky.edu>, Judith Rosenbaum-Andre > <judith.rosenbaumandre(a)maine.edu>, "daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk" > <daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk>, "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" > <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets > Message-ID: <628BDFC1-7A7E-4051-BAB7-0176F161C595(a)colorado.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Nick already mentioned out recent research about this, but I?ll just chime in and add a few thoughts: > > It hasn?t come up at all what the subject matter of the papers/books are. I think that this is really relevant to an ethical analysis of this situation, because it goes to potential harm. There?s a big difference between ?here is a tweet from someone talking about what they had for breakfast? and ?here is a tweet from someone showing signs of a mental illness? or ?here is a tweet from a political dissident who might be in physical danger?. Whether or not online content is PUBLIC is an important contextual factor (because of course if it?s not public, that?s a problem), but in my opinion should not be the only thing relevant for this decision. > > Though it?s also worth pointing out that if the tweet is something that could actually lead to harm, the issue isn?t publishing the handle or not - because public tweets can be easily searched. In that case, it might be better not to quote a tweet verbatim, or to use composites. > > As Tarleton says, the issue is whether a certain use is required to describe the work, which goes to a cost/benefit analysis. If it?s a tweet about breakfast that should be a different analysis than a tweet about a health condition. For the latter, you might want a more compelling reason for why the tweet needs to be there. > > The account name issue is even more tricky because depending on the context, it is possible there could be harm by not giving someone CREDIT for their content. But unless that kind of thing is likely - given what Nick and I found, unless there?s a reason that a handle has explanatory value it seems to just add another layer of potential discomfort for the unknowing research participants. > > That said, there are different norms in different communities about this kind of thing. What I?d like most to see is ethical analyses beyond ?is it public or not? and for those analyses to be surfaced in the writing. So regardless of decisions, explaining them as part of methods would be great! > > Casey > > > On Jul 13, 2018, at 9:27 AM, Tarleton L. Gillespie <tlg28(a)cornell.edu> wrote: > > > > Out of curiosity, I scanned through Twitter's ToS and related policies; I didn't see anything indicating how they want a tweet to be cited. Maybe it did in earlier versions, or I just missed it. But even so, it's not clear how Twitter's ToS has any standing or relevance to what a researcher does, as they're not the person contracting with Twitter in that contract. We could take their advice in to account, but I think Nick and Casey's point is the right one. What's the added value to the research of including the person's Twitter handle in the publication, such that it overcomes the possible discomfort and possible harm it could bring? It's surprising to me how often adding the handle / the name of the speaker / the interviewee really doesn't add to the analysis -- that we may be doing it more because it's what journalists do, or because we want to perform that it?s a legit tweet, or out of habit. Our instinct should not be how much can I publish based on what rights I think people > have given up, but how far can I go to protect people and still make the cogent analysis the discussion requires. > > > > Tarleton > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ?On 7/13/18, 11:17 AM, "Air-L on behalf of Proferes, Nicholas" <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org on behalf of nproferes(a)uky.edu> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Casey Fiesler and I recently published an article on Twitter users? perceptions of the use of tweets in research (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2056305118763366) > > > > > > One of our findings from the study was that when we asked, "How would you feel if a Tweet of yours was used in a research study and your Tweet was quoted in a published research paper, attributed to your Twitter handle?" only about ~24% of respondents indicated that they would be comfortable with this. > > > > > > There's obviously a lot of situations in which including Twitter handles is appropriate (quoting public figures seems like a pretty clear cut case), but I do think it might be worth taking user expectations into consideration in that contextual decision, particularly if you are working with populations subject to harassment/bullying. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Nick > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Judith Rosenbaum-Andre <judith.rosenbaumandre(a)maine.edu> > > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 6:45:06 AM > > To: daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk > > Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets > > > > I just recently published a book on Twitter, race, and gender, and my > > publisher was very insistent I did use people's Twitter handles. For > > clarification, I used all publicly available tweets. I went back and forth > > on it myself a few times (and still every once in a while wake up in the > > middle of the night thinking, "did I do the right thing?!"), but ended up > > agreeing with them. Their argument, per Twitter's ToS, was that people's > > tweets should be treated as you would an in-text citation (e.g., "Hayes > > said"), as they are their thoughts and ideas, expressed in a public forum, > > and thus they have earned the right to be credited for them (almost on a > > par with copyright). Because I used public tweets anyone could and can > > still find the tweets even if I hadn't listed the screen name, which > > renders the argument that we need to protect their identity somewhat moot. > > In my book, I discuss some pretty awful statements though, and I did make > > sure to not choose tweets as examples that could really get people into > > trouble with their employer, for instance, and would instead use more > > innocuous tweets to illustrate my point. This kind of research, because I > > use public tweets, falls outside of our IRB's scope, as they consider it > > public information on a par with analyzing media content and thus > > non-human-subjects research. > > I don't know if this helps at all - I think it's a tough issue to deal > > with, and both decisions, like you said, have their pros and cons. > > > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 4:27 AM Daniel Thomas < > > daniel.thomas--airl(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > > >> Dear Becky, > >> > >> My understanding, though I haven't been involved in Twitter research > >> myself, is that academics in the US have mostly decided it is fine to > >> include screennames and that academics in the UK have mostly decided it > >> is not OK to include screennames. I think that Twitter ToS require the > >> sceennames to be included and allow publication as long as the full > >> tweet is published (including sceenname). However, publishing without > >> the sceenname is not permitted (this is second hand information so I may > >> be wrong). The other issue is that even if sceennames are not included > >> then it is easy to find the author from the content of the tweet and so > >> the authors are still trivially deanonymised. Minor tweaks to > >> punctuation/wording are apparently also insufficient as Twitter's search > >> function will still normally find the original tweet. > >> Depending on the research method you are using it may be possible to > >> write your own synthesised example tweets that are representative of the > >> kind of things people say. However, I know that for some methods/fields > >> that is not possible. > >> > >> I think it is a question where you will want your Research Ethics > >> Board/IRB to sign off on your answer. > >> > >> Helena Webb <helena.webb(a)cs.ox.ac.uk> from the University of Oxford > >> might be a good person to talk to about this because she uses a similar > >> Twitter example in her research ethics case studies at the workshops she > >> runs. She did research that she was not able to publish because she ran > >> into this problem and was not able to find a solution that protected the > >> tweeters and was publishable. > >> > >> Daniel > >> > >> On 13/07/18 07:23, Hayes, Rebecca M wrote: > >>> Dear All, > >>> Can you please weigh in on the decision to include or not include > >> screennames > >>> when we cite tweets in a book? The book is on new media and crime, > >>> and we are using tweets in a few places as examples of some different > >> discussions. > >>> > >>> We are back and forth on whether we should include the screennames and > >> at others or disclude them. The arguments we have seen thus far, are to > >> include them because it was made public and we are citing someones words. > >> The other argument is to disclude them > >>> as the person did not consent to have it printed in that way persay, and > >> the screenname attached in our book could be used to find and harass the > >> person. What are your thoughts? > >>> > >>> Thank you, > >>> Becky > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > >>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&am… > >>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > >> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.ao… > >>> > >>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > >>> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.or… > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org&am… > >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > >> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.ao… > >> > >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > >> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.or… > >> > > > > > > -- > > Judith E. 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Re: [Air-L] Including screennames with tweets
by Theo Plothe 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Twitter is a public forum in the public sphere. There is no expectation of anonymity on speech in that regard. Having published a few pieces on Twitter including a book chapter just a few weeks ago, I have never failed to publish the screennames on the se accounts. The only reason not to include tweets is if the tweets are from a protected account, which is of course is not part of the public timeline. Best, Theo

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Let's talk about robots, AI, socialbots, and algorithms at AoIR 2018
by Andrea Guzman 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Hello everyone, For your consideration. Please also circulate through you networks. At this year's AoIR conference, there will be a half-day preconference regarding people's interactions with social technologies and the personal, social, and cultural implications thereof: "The Medium as Message and Messenger: Human-Machine Communication in the Next-Generation Internet." The workshop will begin with lightening talks from workshop organizers discussing key questions in their area of expertise. Workshop participants will then break into small groups to discuss research in shared areas of interest. Finally, the entire group will come together to discuss how to best move research in this area forward as social technologies continue to develop. This is a great networking opportunity and will serve as an excellent orientation for researchers interested in moving into this area, including graduate students. There is no call for papers. Interested participants can register for the workshop as part of their conference registration, but SPACE IS LIMITED, so early registration is encouraged. This workshop is being sponsored by Aarhus University, European Commission H2020, Next Generation Internet, University of Illinois at Chicago, the Communication and Social Robotics Lab/Western Michigan University, Northern Illinois University. More information: https://aoir.org/aoir2018/preconfwrkshop/#MM <https://aoir.org/aoir2018/preconfwrkshop/#MM>Also, there is a Human-Machine Communication email list that anyone is welcome to join. It is very low-traffic, and used mainly for CFPs. https://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=HMC-SCHOLARS <https://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=HMC-SCHOLARS>Best wishes, Andrea ______ Andrea L. Guzman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Northern Illinois University alguzman(a)niu.edu Read an advance copy of "What is Human-Machine Communication, Anyway?" https://bit.ly/2LKcpVf, the introduction to Human-Machine Communication: Rethinking Communication, Technology, & Ourselves forthcoming from Peter Lang.

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