Reflecting on ethics in the investigation of online communication during emergencies

Eva Goldgruber; Julian Ausserhofer; Harald Hornmoen; Steen Steensen; Klas Backholm; Gudrun Reimerth; Elsebeth Frey; Rune Ottosen; Colin John McInnes

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-12909-5_17

Reflecting on ethics in the investigation of online communication during emergencies

Eva Goldgruber^*, Julian Ausserhofer, Harald Hornmoen, Steen Steensen, Klas Backholm, Gudrun Reimerth, Elsebeth Frey, Rune Ottosen, Colin John McInnes

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Department of International Politics

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The use of social media to communicate in cases of emergencies has gained more and more importance in recent years. Studying such web and social media data is not only a methodological challenge, but ethical questions also arise. In this article we describe some of those ethical issues and our reflections with a focus on dissemination of results based on the RESCUE project.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Research Ethics in the Digital Age
Subtitle of host publication	Ethics for the Social Sciences and Humanities in Times of Mediatization and Digitization
Editors	Farina Dobrick , Jana Fischer, Lutz M. Hagen
Publisher	Springer Nature
Chapter	17
Pages	157-163
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9783658129095
ISBN (Print)	9783658129088
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-12909-5_17
Publication status	Published - 08 Dec 2017

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RESCUE project
Social media research

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Goldgruber, E., Ausserhofer, J., Hornmoen, H., Steensen, S., Backholm, K., Reimerth, G., Frey, E., Ottosen, R., & McInnes, C. J. (2017). Reflecting on ethics in the investigation of online communication during emergencies. In F. Dobrick , J. Fischer, & L. M. Hagen (Eds.), Research Ethics in the Digital Age: Ethics for the Social Sciences and Humanities in Times of Mediatization and Digitization (pp. 157-163). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-12909-5_17

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Reflecting on ethics in the investigation of online communication during emergencies. / Goldgruber, Eva; Ausserhofer, Julian; Hornmoen, Harald et al.
Research Ethics in the Digital Age: Ethics for the Social Sciences and Humanities in Times of Mediatization and Digitization. ed. / Farina Dobrick ; Jana Fischer; Lutz M. Hagen. Springer Nature, 2017. p. 157-163.

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