Johannes Breuer, Sebastian Stier, Josephine Lukito, Frank Mangold, Mareike Wieland, Danica Radovanović: Overview of Ethical Considerations when Working with Digital Behavioral Data, GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data #14 | 1
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Digital Behavioral Data (DBD) has become an invaluable resource for researchers across the social sciences, offering unprecedented insights into human behavior and social phenomena. The collection and use of such data raise significant ethical concerns that researchers must carefully navigate. This guide provides an overview of the ethical considerations in DBD research, addressing both platform-centered and user-centered approaches.
It explores key ethical challenges throughout the research process, from study design and data collection to processing and analysis, publication and data sharing. It discusses critical issues, such as informed consent, data minimization, privacy or inferring user attributes.