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Are all ‘research fields’ equal? Rethinking practice for the use of data from crowd-sourcing market places

Gleibs, Ilka H. ORCID: 0000-0002-9913-250X (2017) Are all ‘research fields’ equal? Rethinking practice for the use of data from crowd-sourcing market places. Behavior Research Methods, 49. pp. 1333-1342. ISSN 1554-351X

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Identification Number: 10.3758/s13428-016-0789-y

Abstract

New technologies like large-scale social media sides (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) and crowdsourcing services (e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk, Crowdflower, Clickworker) impact social science research and provide many new and interesting avenues for research. The use of these new technologies for research has not been without challenges and a recently published psychological study on Facebook led to a widespread discussion on the ethics of conducting large-scale experiments online. Surprisingly little has been said about the ethics of conducting research using commercial crowdsourcing market places. In this paper, I want to focus on the question of which ethical questions are raised by data collection with crowdsourcing tools. I briefly draw on implications of internet research more generally and then focus on the specific challenges that research with crowdsourcing tools faces. I identify fair-pay and related issues of respect for autonomy as well as problems with power dynamics between researcher and participant, which has implications for ‘withdrawal-withoutprejudice’, as the major ethical challenges with crowdsourced data. Further, I will to draw attention on how we can develop a ‘best practice’ for researchers using crowdsourcing tools.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/13428
Additional Information: © 2016 The Author © CC BY 4.0
Divisions: Psychological and Behavioural Science
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited: 03 Aug 2016 14:06
Last Modified: 07 Feb 2024 02:00
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/67345

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