Zeitschriftenartikel
Facebook's Emotional Contagion Experiment as a Challenge to Research Ethics
This article analyzes the ethical discussion focusing on the Facebook emotional contagion experiment published by the 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' in 2014. The massive-scale experiment manipulated the News Feeds of a large amount of Facebook users and was successful in proving that emotional contagion happens also in online environments. However, the experiment caused ethical concerns within and outside academia mainly for two intertwined reasons, the first revolving around the idea of research as manipulation, and the second focusing on the problematic definition of informed consent. The article concurs with recent research that the era of social media and big data research are posing a significant challenge to research ethics, the practice and views of which are grounded in the pre social media era, and reflect the classical ethical stances of utilitarianism and deontology.
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
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Englisch
- Umfang
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Seite(n): 75-85
- ISSN
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2183-2439
- Erschienen in
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Media and Communication, 4(4)
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie
Forschungsarten der Sozialforschung
Soziale Medien
Emotionalität
Datengewinnung
Forschung
Wissenschaftsethik
Datenschutz
Privatsphäre
Methodologie
Lauk, Epp
Penttinen, Maija
Sormanen, Niina
Uskali, Turo
- Rechteinformation
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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24.01.2023, 06:48 MEZ
Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Jouhki, Jukka
- Lauk, Epp
- Penttinen, Maija
- Sormanen, Niina
- Uskali, Turo
Entstanden
- 2016