papers by topic: data ethics

Privacy and Security | Data EthicsChildren and Families | Online Harassment | Social Capital & Social Support| Impression Formation/Impression Management


Gilbert, S., Shilton, K., & Vitak, J. (2023). When research is the context: Cross-platform user expectations for social media data reuse. Big Data & Society, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/205395172311641

Fiesler, C., Pater, J., Read, J., Vitak, J., & Zimmer, M. (2023). Internet research ethics: A CSCW community discussion. Extended Abstracts of the 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (pp. 566–568). https://doi.org/10.1145/3584931.3606952

Tahaei, M., Constantinides, M., Quercia, D., Kennedy, S., Muller, M., Stumpf, S., Liao, Q.V., Baeza-Yates, R., Aroyo, L., Holbrook, J., Luger, E., Madaio, M., Blumenfeld, I.G., De-Arteaga, M., Vitak, J., & Olteanu, A. (2023). Human-centered responsible artificial intelligence: Current & future trends. Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’23), 4 pages. New York: ACM.https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3583178

Fiesler, C., Frauenberger, C., Muller, M., Vitak, J., & Zimmer, M. (2022). Research ethics in HCI: A SIGCHI community discussion. Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Extended Abstracts), Article No. 169 (3 pages). https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3516400

Shilton, K., Gilbert, S., Moss, E., Bietz, M., Fiesler, C., Metcalf, J., Vitak, J., & Zimmer, M. (2021). Excavating awareness and power in data science: A manifesto for trustworthy pervasive data research. Big Data & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211040759 [open access]

Fox, J., Pearce, K.E., Massanari, A., Riles, J.M., Szulc, L., Ranjit, Y., Trevisan, F., Soriano, C.R.R., Vitak, J., Arora, P., Ahn, S.J., Alper, M., Gambino, A., Gonazalez, C., Lynch, T., Williamson, L.D., & Gonzales, A.L. (2021). Open science, closed doors? Countering marginalization through an agenda for ethical, inclusive research in communication. Journal of Communication, 71(5), 764–784. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab029 [pdf]

Gilbert, S., Vitak, J., & Shilton, K. (2021). Measuring Americans’ comfort with research uses of their social media data. Social Media + Society (pp. forthcoming). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211033824

Vitak, J., & Shilton, K. (2020). Trust, privacy and security, and accessibility considerations when conducting mobile technologies research with older adults. Report prepared for the Steering Committee for Mobile Technology for Adaptive Aging. Washington, DC: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. [pdf]

Vitak, J., Proferes, N., Shilton, K., & Ashktorab, Z. (2017). Ethics regulation in social computing research: Examining the role of Institutional Review Boards. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 12, 372-382. doi:10.1177/1556264617725200 [pdf]

Vitak, J., Shilton, K., & Ashktorab. (2016). Beyond the Belmont Principles: Ethical challenges, practices, and beliefs in the online data research community. Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 941-953).New York: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2818048.2820078 [pdf]