Overview: For this discussion, students will investigate the issues and implicat
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Overview: For this discussion, students will investigate the issues and implications of ethical use of online data.
Preparation: Read the 'As Data Overflows Online, Researchers Grapple with Ethics' article from the Annual Editions: Technologies, Social Media, and Society text.
Instructions:
Initial Posting
Read the 'As Data Overflows Online, Researchers Grapple with Ethics' article on pages 28 - 29. In the discussion post area, discuss the following:
Is Professor Jeffrey T. Hancock's likening of this 'new era' to 'when chemistry go the microscope' a valid metaphor? Why or why not?
How much of a concern should it be that Facebook may have the power to sway election results?
Does Professor Hancock's contention that the researchers did not realize that manipulating the news feed would make people feel violated, help to remove at least some of the researchers' culpability? Explain.
Reply Post
Choose another student's posting that interests you.
Conduct additional research relating to the posting.
Post a summary regarding the information you found relating to the original post.
Be sure to cite your source information.
Grading Criteria for the Initial Post (7 pts.):
Demonstrates a clear understanding of the issues.
Demonstrates safe and responsible use of information technology (performance criteria 3.1)
Supplements discussion content with documented research
Demonstrates writing conciseness and correctness and is written to elicit a response from another student. (e.g., What does everyone else think? Does anyone have an opinion about this topic?)
Grading Criteria for the Initial Post (3 pts.):
Demonstrates a clear understanding of the original post content.
Supplements discussion content with additional documented research.
Demonstrates writing conciseness and correctness and demonstrates appropriate netiquette as outlined in the course syllabus guidelines.
Explanation / Answer
I would choose posting of John Markoff that interests me. The online world, and real world affects each other.
Additional reseach needs to be done on how online world, impacts emotions of real people. Why real people would not like to share any particular update. Why would online people sometimes not be able to influence voters.
Joseph Hancock's metaphor: "When chemistry go to the microscope" is valid. The content experiments that have been done on Facebook, wherein US voters were given a "Social Nudge" has been quite helpful. The emotional nudge swaying residents to vote seems really historic. That's the meaning of the metaphor-- ":When chemistry goes to the microscope"
There should be a major concern that Facebook would be a corporate researcher, which could validate the cost of research by manipulating newsfeed. Usually for-profit researchers cannot help in maninpulating newsfeed or spreading interest of one person over the other.
The culpability has been removed, as researchers have not relied on the issues undermining the implementation of the experiment. There can be problems in the implementation, which impacts the attitude of the writer.
The highlight of the article is in using "Ethics in interpreting human response to research data" - If any researcher is afraid to take permission on asking people to answer research questions, maybe the research data is not valid. The other analyses could be that " Corporates need quick test, as online data overflows" The corporate would need an accountable answer to the quick test/ content experiment results.
If Facebook manipulates newsfeed--It is really about messing with people emotions. One cannot mess with people's emotions. That means the mind is getting controlled.
So in summary--a review committee should always assess the results of any research. If there is a research done by University, a review committee should validate that research.
In Summary, the safe and responsible way of submitting a review is to really test every aspect of the research review. How many respondents were involved in the newsfeed. How many respondents were replying to the newsfeed. What were the respondents view on emotions. How did they respond to any question posed by the government. What were the decisions they took with regards to the quantiative analyses of reseach.
Does anyone have an opinion on : " Is big data spreading inequality"
" Does online research on social networks, hinge on ethics"
The definition of ethics: Looking at the points specified in the list.
Data Quality
Terms of Service
Permissions
Public versus Private
Text Post versus Docs
Coherent Research Design
Less use of Pseydonyms or Idioms.
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