Joseph AllenIn this five-part mini series, Joe Allen gets us thinking about the challenges and ethical implications of using Twitter data. We’ll be publishing one post each day this week, so follow along from now until Friday!
I recently had the pleasure of speaking about Twitter brazil rcs data at the NCRM Research Methods e-Festival. In my talk, I focused on the ease and ethics of utilising Twitter data in academic research. In this five-part blog series, I introduce some of the questions I asked the 42 attendees, and my interpretations. A full recording of this talk is available on the UK Data Service YouTube channel.
A human hand holding a smartphone that is displaying the Twitter logo on it (a white bird on a blue background)
Photo by Jeremy Bezanger on Unsplash
As the attendees were all academics and were aware of the ethical use of data, you can expect some bias in these results. Data was collected via Mentimeter – a useful interactive tool that allows instant responses from audience members. All data used in this blog post is available on the UK Data Service GitHub.
To begin, I introduced the following “socially good” scenario to my audience, and posed a series of questions for them to respond to.