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Ensuring Privacy of Participants Recruited via Social Media: An Australian Retrospective Visualisation and Roadmap
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posted on 2023-05-24, 07:11 authored by Unnithan, C, Swatman, PM, Jo-Anne KelderJo-Anne KelderResearchers worldwide are increasingly looking to recruit research participants via social media (particularly @Facebook and @Twitter) because they appear to offer access to a wider range of research participants and afford inherently convenient tools for recruitment. In Australia, the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research, together with the federal Privacy law and a number of state-based privacy statutes, provide support and guidance for this novel approach. This article offers a preliminary analysis and discussion of this trend from an Australian perspective, illustrated by an enquiry into the ethical challenges posed by social media-based recruitment, conducted in an Australian university in 2015. Leximancer™ was used as an analytical tool and the content from social media sites used for a small number of research studies conducted up to 2015, taken in conjunction with the various national human research ethics guidelines, offered a means of understanding how ethical challenges of privacy and anonymity can be addressed for responsible social media-based research.
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Publication title
Data Analytics in Medicine: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and ApplicationsVolume
4Editors
M Khosrow-Pour, S Clarke, ME Jennex and A-V AnttiroikoPagination
1537-1555ISBN
9781799812043Department/School
DVC - EducationPublisher
IGI GlobalPlace of publication
United StatesExtent
103Repository Status
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