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Facebook's Emotional Contagion Experiment as a Challenge to Research Ethics
This article analyzes the ethical discussion focusing on the Facebook emotional contagion experiment published by the 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' in 2014. The massive-scale experiment manipulated the News Feeds of a large amount of Facebook users and was successful in proving that emotional contagion happens also in online environments. However, the experiment caused ethical …
Creator
- Jouhki, Jukka
- Lauk, Epp
- Penttinen, Maija
- Sormanen, Niina
- Uskali, Turo
Subject
- Sociology & anthropology
- Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
- News media, journalism, publishing
- Big data; emotional contagion; informed consent; manipulation; research ethics; user data
- Interactive, electronic Media
- Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
- Research Design
- social media
- emotionality
- …
Type of item
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Creator
- Jouhki, Jukka
- Lauk, Epp
- Penttinen, Maija
- Sormanen, Niina
- Uskali, Turo
Subject
- Sociology & anthropology
- Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
- News media, journalism, publishing
- Big data; emotional contagion; informed consent; manipulation; research ethics; user data
- Interactive, electronic Media
- Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
- Research Design
- social media
- emotionality
- …
Type of item
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rights
- GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
Creation date
- 2016
- 2016
Provenance
- Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Source
- Media and Communication, 4(4)
Identifier
- oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/53821
- 2183-2439
- http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/53821
- https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v4i4.579
- http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/53821/ssoar-mediacomm-2016-4-jouhki_et_al-Facebooks_Emotional_Contagion_Experiment_as.pdf?sequence=3
- http://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/LPNYPIZFNLS27MSGDZZJRALABBRZTVHV
Extent
- Seite(n): 75-85
Format
- application/pdf
Language
- eng
- eng
Year
- 2016
Providing country
- Germany
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2022-01-21T09:51:58.264Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-01-21T09:51:58.264Z