Ethical and technical issues in collecting data on the web for social sciences research. no comments
My idea is that every sciences are, at least, define by their object but also by their methodology. For now, sociology and psychology used the same methods on the web than for other subject. But the web offers the possibility to collect and analyses other kind of data than is allowed, for example, by experimentation in lab or by collecting information in traditional ethnography methodology. I think it will be very interesting to see how the among of data, their availability and their representativeness could modified the methods to collect and analyse them.
I want to emphazis on two aspecst, ethical and technical.
About the ethical issues to collect data which are still unclear if it is public or private (or any other conceptions). This point will be more linked with law and understand which is allowed or not in collecting information about users.
The technical aspect will try to see and understand which kind of tools are already available to collect datas, but also which are their limits and what is possible to analyse the information.