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Hayley Lepps is a Researcher at NatCen Social Research Earlier in the year I was invited to attend a two-day workshop hosted by the University of Aberdeen, as part of their ESRC‐funded project “Social Media, Privacy and Risk: Towards More Ethical Research Methodologies”.  The workshop was attended by some of the leading thinkers & practitioners in social media research, and based on our experiences and research (including my own work on NatCen's “ Research using Social Media: Users’ Views ” project), we aimed  to develop a set of flexible guidelines for the ethical use of social media data in research, intended to be used by researchers, students, ethics committees, funding bodies, and anyone else with an interest in the ethics of working with social media data. Following the workshop, the outputs were then pulled together by the team at Aberdeen, and  the draft guidelines were discussed at the AcSS/ NSMNSS conference on ethics and social media research.  I was ...

The full programme for our Ethics & Social Media Conference has now been announced. You can see details of session abstracts here , and register for the conference on eventbrite 1000 Conference Registration and Coffee  1030 Keynote 1 The Ethical Disruptions of Social Media Research: tales from the field  Professor Susan Halford (Director Web Science Institute, University of Southampton) 1130 Parallel Session 1 Session A: Ethical Practicalities (I)  Using Twitter as a data source: An overview of ethical challenges. Wasim Ahmed (University of Sheffield)  Ethical issues in qualitative research on Facebook. Gill Mooney (University of Leeds)  The Ethics of Researching Tinder. Jenna Condie (Western Sydney University)  Session B: Blurred Lines Trying to re-focus the blurred lines between researchers and participants in social media research. Sarah Quinton (Oxford Brookes)  Reconciling the Tumblr Fangirl and the Academic: Embracing the Blurred line Between...