I intend to study some health posts and comments on the social media with the intention of analysis such information for research purposes. I plan to maintain anonymity of the originators of the posts and those that commented. Is ethical for me to do so?
Courtesy of the National Institutes of Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, guiding principles for ethical research are at https://www.nih.gov/health-information/nih-clinical-research-trials-you/guiding-principles-ethical-research.
Dear Olivier,
Thanks for the link. The guiding principles however did not say anything about researching the social media.
Sure. Just make sure what you are analysing is in public mode and, if it is not, that you have the creator's authorization to explore it.
It is also clever to cover people's last names if what you are analysing is a comment section.
My Masters thesis was about women's personal narratives about motherhood made on social media, so I've learned a thing or two ;)
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