Frankly, I don’t see much value in anonymizing the Twitter handle if you will be publishing the original content of the tweet, which I could search and identify the source with minimal effort. Michael -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm@uwm.edu t: @michaelzimmer w: www.michaelzimmer.org
On Apr 13, 2017, at 10:11 PM, Ye Na Lee <jpt2007@berkeley.edu> wrote:
Dear subscribers to Association of Internet Researchers, I am currently going through IRB process for a research on Twitter data and I was told to anonymize Twitter handles completely. Are there any online programs with which I could anonymize usernames? I don`t think I should create fake Twitter handles for every single tweet that I quote on my paper. I`d really appreciate any suggestions on anonymizing Twitter handles! Thank you in advance! _______________________________________________ The Air-L@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
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