Ethical Research Protocols for Social Media Health Research

Adrian Benton, Glen Coppersmith, Mark Dredze

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Abstract

Social media have transformed data-driven research in political science, the social sciences, health, and medicine. Since health research often touches on sensitive topics that relate to ethics of treatment and patient privacy, similar ethical considerations should be acknowledged when using social media data in health research. While much has been said regarding the ethical considerations of social media research, health research leads to an additional set of concerns. We provide practical suggestions in the form of guidelines for researchers working with social media data in health research. These guidelines can inform an IRB proposal for researchers new to social media health research.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationEACL 2017 - Ethics in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the 1st ACL Workshop
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages94-102
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781945626470
StatePublished - 2017
Event1st ACL Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing, EthNLP 2017 - Valencia, Spain
Duration: Apr 4 2017 → …

Publication series

NameEACL 2017 - Ethics in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the 1st ACL Workshop

Conference

Conference1st ACL Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing, EthNLP 2017
Country/TerritorySpain
CityValencia
Period4/4/17 → …

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Software

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