Mentimeter responses to
Q3: How would you feel if an academic body reached out to you to thank, inform, or compensate you for your public data in Scenario 1?
Here we observe a phenomenon. When organisations scrape brazil rcs data data, we assume the users are all well-aware that their data is available for use, and may well be used, in this way. To put it pessimistically, we assume our users give informed consent simply through using Twitter in the first place – consent that they cannot retract once putting a tweet out into the world.
However, when asked how they would feel if researchers were to contact them to seek true consent, responses from the majority of attendees suggest that being approached would make them uncomfortable. As seen in the Mentimeter responses below, some attendees “would not want to be contacted” and most attendees would feel confused by this contact.
Free-text comments showing audience responses to Question
Mentimeter responses to
One attendee points out that their answer would change based on whether they felt they had tweeted anything “controversial” on the research topic. Imagine the bias introduced to research if we only collected data that was considered “not controversial”.