How do you define "using people's posts"? Is it ethical to tabulate general trends and give specific anonymous examples from the gathered data.
BERA 2018: https://www.bera.ac.uk/publication/ethical-guidelines-for-educational-research-2018
“Participant” Perceptions of Twitter Research Ethics (Fiesler & Proferes, 2018): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305118763366
What about public posts of people widely known and of public institutions? What about public persons (politicians)?
Would the same rules apply to official groups, such as a political party?
What if I wish to do an analysis of videos my respondents post on social media? Do I need to seek their permission for that?
Sometimes we need exact examples to explain a point but then this will be direct quote, and it will be difficult to gain consent from every individual especially when using large corpus of posts?
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Any practical tips on how to collect and store data from web pages so that it can be processed later?
Webscraper http://www.fminer.com/
Web Collector Chrome extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-collector-for-maxqda/jclikkcolnhlpnlcecldfigfdeocdgpf
https://www.maxqda.com/how-to-analyze-twitter-data
Do we need the consent of media channel's in order to analyse their twitter handles and facebook pages?