2019
DOI: 10.1177/1556264619850736
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What Is “Publicly Available Data”? Exploring Blurred Public–Private Boundaries and Ethical Practices Through a Case Study on Instagram

Abstract: This article adds to the literature on ethics in digital research by problematizing simple understandings of what constitutes “publicly available data,” thereby complicating common “consent waiver” approaches. Based on our recent study of representations of family life on Instagram, a platform with a distinct visual premise, we discuss the ethical challenges we encountered and our practices for moving forward. We ground this in Lauren Berlant’s concept of “intimate publics” to conceptualize the different under… Show more

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“…Third, the data collection process anonymised participants prior to analysis, and a combination of the large n and analysis strategy (reductive‐quantitative) has made the identification of authors impossible from this publication. This follows Ravn et al () and their proactive use of aggregation‐as‐anonymisation. For this reason, the paper contains no direct quotes from the material analysed.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 87%
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“…Third, the data collection process anonymised participants prior to analysis, and a combination of the large n and analysis strategy (reductive‐quantitative) has made the identification of authors impossible from this publication. This follows Ravn et al () and their proactive use of aggregation‐as‐anonymisation. For this reason, the paper contains no direct quotes from the material analysed.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 87%
“…While some researchers see presumed consent in the publication of material in the “public” Internet, others recognise the complexity of speech and actions that ostensibly occur in public, but with assumed privacy (Tiidenberg ). Ravn et al () have identified the complexity of identifying aspects of human behaviour undertaken in public with assumed privacy, as well as the opposite, “private” behaviour performed with public consumption in mind. Thus, we are ethically asked to consider the expectation of the individuals who produce content, rather than fall back on assumptions that material that is publicly available is automatically in the public domain.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Only anonymized aggregated data are reported. Although the Instagram pictures and accounts used are publically available, it is questionable to what extent these are intentionally public [24,25]. Content analysis studies have dealt with this differently (e.g.…”
Section: Ethical Considerationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Web data extraction is the initial stage where data is collected from web page sources [5]. At this stage the information is taken from social media Instagram [6], the information is the posting data from the Ministry of Health account with the Ministry of Health account username with a total number of posts of 1,215 taken on January 03, 2020. An example post on the health ministry's Instagram account can be seen in Figure 2.…”
Section: A Web Data Extractionmentioning
confidence: 99%