Would you share your Fediverse data with researchers?
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Thibault Molleman🇧🇪 🌈🐝 last edited by
@thibaultmol it's a hypothetical question. The point is for you to think about what data you would share under what conditions.
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@evan academic researcher here. I'd really love to be involved in the researching of the Fediverse. What's being planned by swf? Data, interviews, UX, all of it hopefully. Sign me up.
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@evan I actually just started a research project about environmental stewardship and social media. We are getting data from insta, fb, yt, tiktok & Twitter but we did not consider the fediverse. Too few users + hard to get consent.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
Really great results. I'm qualified yes; I have been part of academic research projects before and I'd be ok with doing one here if I felt like my privacy would be preserved and I supported the topic of study.
Lots of good responses in the comments. Some blanket statements by people saying they would not permit others to participate in research on the Fediverse, which is kind of overstepping.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
Many people assumed either nonconsensual or commercial research or both, which doesn't follow from the question for me, but I understand why people are vigilant.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
An interesting question came up about consent of connected people -- social graph or reactions to content, for example. I'm interested and I am going to investigate how it works for social networks.
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Lawrence Pritchard Waterhousereplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@evan For what it's worth: I think you worded it well. People are prone to vigorous knee-jerk reactions, and I can't blame 'em (Being prone to those myself, especially in areas where ethics are concerned)
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse last edited by
@lpwaterhouse I also was part of the launch of a new non-profit foundation, https://socialwebfoundation.org/ , this week. I think people are feeling worried about the SWF's purpose, so they interpreted the question really negatively.
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@Transflux Awesome! Thanks for the reply.
One thing I'm trying to figure out is how researchers deal with consent of creators of incidental content -- for example, if you analyse the primary subject's image post, analysing the "likes" of that post.
As far as I can tell, it's usually aggregated and/or anonymized, but researchers don't seek consent from secondary subjects. Is that about right?
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@DrPen Oh, cool! We've talked to a few researchers about the topic. It'd be great to talk more; send me a DM!
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Brian Hawthornereplied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@evan @JasonPester I’ve noticed this sort of assumption in many polls here, mostly posted by people who appear to be allistic. Many autists may not make the same inferences regarding metaphor or implications. Given the high proportion of autistic people and people for whom English is not their first language here in the Fediverse, my recommendation is to avoid wording things in a way that requires people to try to intuit your intentions.
In this case, if consent is intended, then it’s probably best to mention it in the wording: “Would you consent to sharing your…”
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Brian Hawthorne last edited by
@bhawthorne @JasonPester thanks for the note.