Considering the ethics of big data research: A case of Twitter and ISIS/ISIL

This is a formal commentary, responding to Matthew Curran Benigni, Kenneth Joseph, and Kathleen Carley's contribution, "Online extremism and the communities that sustain it: Detecting the ISIS supporting community on Twitter". This brief review reflects on the ethics of big data resea...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	PloS one 2017-12, Vol.12 (12), p.e0187155-e0187155
Main Author:	Buchanan, Elizabeth
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Big data Biology and Life Sciences Computer and Information Sciences Data management Data mining Ethics Formal Comment Information management Medical ethics Methods Privacy Research ethics Social media Social networks Social Sciences Terrorism
Online Access:	Get full text
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Description
Summary:	This is a formal commentary, responding to Matthew Curran Benigni, Kenneth Joseph, and Kathleen Carley's contribution, "Online extremism and the communities that sustain it: Detecting the ISIS supporting community on Twitter". This brief review reflects on the ethics of big data research methodologies, and how novel methods complicate long-standing principles of research ethics. Specifically, the concept of the "data subject" as a corollary, or replacement, of "human subject" is considered.
ISSN:	1932-6203 1932-6203