The value of unsolicited online data in drug policy research
The value of unsolicited online data in drug policy research
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DOI：
10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.01.023
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发表时间：
2019-11-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Aldridge, Judith
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作者：
Enghoff, Oskar;Aldridge, Judith
我们提醒读者在药物政策研究中使用未经请求的在线数据的价值，突出显示与不同类型的行为者产生的药物政策相关的基于网络的内容：消费，供应或生产非法药物的人，在线新闻网站和国家或民间社会组织。这些参与者在一系列互联网平台上留下“数字痕迹”，这些痕迹可供研究人员作为数据使用，尽管它们没有被研究人员征求，因此没有专门为实现研究项目的目标而创建。这种特殊类型的数据具有一定的优势，局限性和伦理挑战，我们的目标是帮助研究人员通过使用未经请求的在线数据，产生了使用其他传统数据源不可能产生的有价值的药物政策见解的已发表研究的选定示例来理解这些。我们认为，使用未经请求的在线数据，使药物政策奖学金跟上毒品政策和非法药物的做法在全球景观的最新发展的持续和日益重要。
We alert readers to the value of using unsolicited online data in drug policy research by highlighting web-based content relevant to drug policy generated by distinct types of actor: people who consume, supply or produce illicit drugs, online news websites and state or civil society organisations. These actors leave 'digital traces' across a range of intemet platforms, and these traces become available to researchers to use as data although they have not been solicited by researchers, and so have not been created specifically to fulfil the aims of research projects. This particular type of data entails certain strengths, limitations and ethical challenges, and we aim to assist researchers in understanding these by drawing on selected examples of published research using unsolicited online data that have generated valuable drug policy insights not possible using other traditional data sources. We argue for the continued and increased importance of using unsolicited online data so that drug policy scholarship keep pace with recent developments in the global landscape of drug policies and illicit drug practices.