Considering the ethics of big data research: A case of Twitter and ISIS/ISIL
Considering the ethics of big data research: A case of Twitter and ISIS/ISIL
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考虑大数据研究的伦理：Twitter 和 ISIS/ISIL 的案例
作者：
Elizabeth Buchanan
这是一篇正式的评论，回应Matthew Curran Benigni，Kenneth Joseph和Kathleen Carley的贡献，“在线极端主义和维持它的社区：在Twitter上检测ISIS支持社区”。这篇简短的评论反映了大数据研究方法的伦理，以及新方法如何使长期存在的研究伦理原则复杂化。具体而言，“数据主体”作为“人类主体”的必然结果或替代的概念被考虑。
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.