{"id":1244,"date":"2018-04-16T10:31:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2018-04-16T10:31:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:31:23","slug":"academic-use-of-facebook-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2018\/04\/16\/academic-use-of-facebook-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Use of Facebook Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There has never been a time when so much data existed about human behavior,&#8221; begins a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Facebook-Says-It-Will-Help\/243126?cid=at&amp;utm_source=at&amp;utm_medium=en&amp;elqTrackId=5e19c6eca7294eab8f2054e03fc43428&amp;elq=e633966669224069b44c3f7eb8f0d9df&amp;elqaid=18619&amp;elqat=1&amp;elqCampaignId=8373\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/i> article about the academic use of Facebook&#8217;s data.<\/a> &#8220;What many of us buy, sell, like, dislike, read, and tell our friends is recorded on the internet thanks to sites like Facebook. To social scientists, the company is sitting on a gold mine&#8230; [A]\u00a0commission, would be trained on the company\u2019s policies and would theoretically know why some information can be shared and some can\u2019t, presumably because of legal proceedings or certain privacy laws. The scholars on the commission would not be able to do their own research or share the company\u2019s secrets, but they would solicit proposals from others and serve as a filter for the data, meting it out to the researchers as deemed appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/news\/facebook-is-planning-on-turning-its-data-over-to-social-scientists-should-users-trust-the-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The <i>Pacific Standard<\/i> also has an article about Facebook releasing its data to social scientists.<\/a> This is a very interesting and potentially powerful development!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There has never been a time when so much data existed about human behavior,&#8221; begins a\u00a0Chronicle of Higher Education article about the academic use of Facebook&#8217;s data. &#8220;What many of us buy, sell, like, dislike, read, and tell our friends is recorded on the internet thanks to sites like Facebook. To social scientists, the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[732,29102],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-social-media","tag-social-science-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}