Untangling research and practice: what Facebook’s “emotional contagion” study teaches us

Research Ethics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 4-13

  Boyd, Danah ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Ethics; Facebook; Informed consent; IRB

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962570160     PISSN: 17470161     EISSN: 20476094     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1747016115583379     Document Type: Article

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