This chapter provides an overview of the specific legal, ethical, and privacy issues that can
arise when conducting research using Twitter data. Existing literature is reviewed to inform …

Social computing systems such as Twitter present new research sites that have provided
billions of data points to researchers. However, the availability of public social media data …

Over the past decade, the number of people engaging with social media has grown rapidly.
This means that social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are potentially good …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to engage in a systematic analysis of academic
research that relies on the collection and use of Twitter data, creating topology of Twitter …

Empirical research involving the analysis of Internet-based data raises a number of ethical
challenges. One instance of this is the analysis of Twitter data, in particular when specific …

In 2009 Ginsberg et al. reported using Google search query volume to estimate influenza
activity in advance of traditional methodologies. It was a groundbreaking example of digital …

Some researchers consider most social media communications as public, and posts from
networks such as Twitter are routinely harvested and published without anonymization and …

New and emerging forms of data, including posts harvested from social media sites such as
Twitter, have become part of the sociologist's data diet. In particular, some researchers see …

This chapter explores the use of Twitter as a platform for–and subject of–academic research.
While Twitter practices and societal impacts are the subject of increasing research interest …

While research has been conducted with and in marginalized or vulnerable groups, explicit
guidelines and best practices centering on specific communities are nascent. An excellent …