Week 14: Ethics of Online Research

Content for the week of April 21, 2026

Discussion Reading

Discussant: Rushdah

• Vitak, J., Shilton, K., & Ashktorab, Z. (2016). Beyond the Belmont Principles: Ethical Challenges, Practices, and Beliefs in the Online Data Research Community. Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, 941–953.

Additional Optional Readings

• Williams, M. L., Burnap, P., & Sloan, L. (2017). Towards an Ethical Framework for Publishing Twitter Data in Social Research: Sociology.
• Salganik, M. Ethics chapter from Bit By Bit.
• Crawford, K., & Finn, M. (2015). The limits of crisis data. GeoJournal, 80(4), 491–502.

Agenda

• Ethics discussion on Element
• Peer feedback / work on final project