Hi, Depending on the scraping technique that you use, you can filter by date of birth – and accept all if the skewing and falsification that goes with that. It's a great question and one that we overlooked partly because the hashtag was one that seemed highly unlikely to attract < 18 yos. Best, Cormac On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 at 07:47, Lior Beserman <liorbeserman@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Air-L Community,
I have encountered an ethical problem which I am sure I am not the first to encounter and so would appreciate your say on the matter. I am doing a discourse analysis on a twitter hashtag and I have no way to discern that I am not using under age (under 18) users tweets. As there are completely different questions and guidelines to research minors from an ethical perspective, I was wondering how other people have dealt with this problem in their research?
Thank you, Lior Beserman Navon,
Ph.D. Candidate
The Department of Sociology & Anthropology
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