Global Reactions to the Cambridge Analytica Scandal: A Cross-Language Social Media Study

González, Felipe; Yu, Yihan; Figueroa, Andrea; López, Claudia; Aragón, Cecilia

doi:10.1145/3308560.3316456

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“…Recent controversies with regard to the exploitation of users’ data in the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, and the public outcry of users feeling unnerved being monitored and manipulated, have indeed opened up conversations and legislation around the ethics of handling user data from social media in research [ 121 ]. The overall aim of the 2018 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is to increase people’s control over their own personal data and “to protect all EU citizens from privacy and data breaches in an increasingly data-driven world” [ 122 ].…”

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Methods for Social Media Monitoring Related to Vaccination: Systematic Scoping Review

Karafillakis¹,

Martin²,

Simas³

et al. 2021

JMIR Public Health Surveill

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Background Social media has changed the communication landscape, exposing individuals to an ever-growing amount of information while also allowing them to create and share content. Although vaccine skepticism is not new, social media has amplified public concerns and facilitated their spread globally. Multiple studies have been conducted to monitor vaccination discussions on social media. However, there is currently insufficient evidence on the best methods to perform social media monitoring. Objective The aim of this study was to identify the methods most commonly used for monitoring vaccination-related topics on different social media platforms, along with their effectiveness and limitations. Methods A systematic scoping review was conducted by applying a comprehensive search strategy to multiple databases in December 2018. The articles’ titles, abstracts, and full texts were screened by two reviewers using inclusion and exclusion criteria. After data extraction, a descriptive analysis was performed to summarize the methods used to monitor and analyze social media, including data extraction tools; ethical considerations; search strategies; periods monitored; geolocalization of content; and sentiments, content, and reach analyses. Results This review identified 86 articles on social media monitoring of vaccination, most of which were published after 2015. Although 35 out of the 86 studies used manual browser search tools to collect data from social media, this was time-consuming and only allowed for the analysis of small samples compared to social media application program interfaces or automated monitoring tools. Although simple search strategies were considered less precise, only 10 out of the 86 studies used comprehensive lists of keywords (eg, with hashtags or words related to specific events or concerns). Partly due to privacy settings, geolocalization of data was extremely difficult to obtain, limiting the possibility of performing country-specific analyses. Finally, 20 out of the 86 studies performed trend or content analyses, whereas most of the studies (70%, 60/86) analyzed sentiments toward vaccination. Automated sentiment analyses, performed using leverage, supervised machine learning, or automated software, were fast and provided strong and accurate results. Most studies focused on negative (n=33) and positive (n=31) sentiments toward vaccination, and may have failed to capture the nuances and complexity of emotions around vaccination. Finally, 49 out of the 86 studies determined the reach of social media posts by looking at numbers of followers and engagement (eg, retweets, shares, likes). Conclusions Social media monitoring still constitutes a new means to research and understand public sentiments around vaccination. A wide range of methods are currently used by researchers. Future research should focus on evaluating these methods to offer more evidence and support the development of social media monitoring as a valuable research design.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Methods for Social Media Monitoring Related to Vaccination: Systematic Scoping Review

Karafillakis¹,

Martin²,

Simas³

et al. 2021

JMIR Public Health Surveill

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“…However, more recently online media has demonstrated to be far more powerful in polarization than even more recent commentators believed, as the internet has become ubiquitous (especially as a consequence of the current global need for social distancing to prevent COVID-19’s spread), and online polarization has real life consequences. For example, Cambridge Analytica successfully used online media to help polarize opinion of voters from opposing sides toward more extreme views, swaying elections in multiple countries, including India, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Trinidad and Tobago ( González et al, 2019 ). During COVID-19, anti-maskers became a vocal group online, and organized rallies, causing significant public health crises in a number of countries ( Jamison et al, 2020 ; Pleyers, 2020 ).…”

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Online Intergroup Polarization Across Political Fault Lines: An Integrative Review

Bliuc

Bouguettaya

Felise³

2021

Front. Psychol.

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We revisit the construct of political polarization and current distinctions between issue-driven and affective polarization. Based on our review of recent research on polarization from psychology, political science, and communication, we propose to treat polarization as a process that integrates the concepts of social identification (collective self-definition) with ideologically opposed camps - that is, psychological groups based on support or opposition to specific socio-political issues and policies (related to issue-driven polarization), and that of ideological and psychological distancing between groups (related to affective polarization). Furthermore, we discuss the foundations of polarizing groups – and more specifically, the role of conflicting collective narratives about social reality in providing an initial platform for polarization in a technologically networked world. In particular, we highlight the importance of online media in facilitating and enhancing polarization between ideologically opposed camps. As a theoretical contribution, the review provides a more functional conceptualization of polarization that can explain how polarization may occur across partisan fault lines and in domains outside of politics. We conclude with a discussion of new pathways to the study of polarization which this integrative conceptualization opens.

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“…But this public awareness is deeply contextual; studies of tweets about the scandals in countries tied to high levels of "power distance" show a greater acceptance of authority, and a larger blame on individuals, than in countries with low levels of power distance. 65 Data are being used and arguably misused in areas to automate hiring practices, with known racist and misogynist outcomes due to legacy training data. 66 Immigration enforcement in the United States is actively seeking social media data and other data to target undocumented immigrants, 67 and aiming to collect genetic data from detained immigrants.…”

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Electronic Informed Consent in Mobile Applications Research

Wilbanks¹

2020

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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The article covers electronic informed consent (eIC) from different dimensions so that practitioners might understand the history, regulation, and current status of eIC. It covers the transition of informed consent to electronic screens and the implications of that transition in terms of design, costs, and data analysis. The article explores the limits of regulation mandating eIC for mobile application research, and addresses some of the broader social context around eIC.

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Global Reactions to the Cambridge Analytica Scandal: A Cross-Language Social Media Study

Cited by 32 publications

References 28 publications

Methods for Social Media Monitoring Related to Vaccination: Systematic Scoping Review

Methods for Social Media Monitoring Related to Vaccination: Systematic Scoping Review

Online Intergroup Polarization Across Political Fault Lines: An Integrative Review

Electronic Informed Consent in Mobile Applications Research

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