Do you need informed consent to study public social media posts? A Reddit mental health study retraction renews debate over consent in public data research.
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Do you need informed consent to study public posts on social media?
The retraction of a paper looking at posts in a Reddit subforum about mental illness has once again raised questions about informed consent in research using public data. To study the experience of receiving a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a U.K.-based team of researchers collected posts from the Reddit subforum r/schizophrenia, which is dedicated to discussing…
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Do you need informed consent to study public posts on social media?
The retraction of a paper looking at posts in a Reddit subforum about mental illness has once again raised questions about informed consent in research using public data. To study the experience of receiving a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a U.K.-based team of researchers collected posts from the Reddit subforum r/schizophrenia, which is dedicated to discussing…
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Fuck reddit sideways with its own sycophants.
