Using APIs for Data Collection on Social Media

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The ethics of algorithms: Mapping the debate (2016, neutral): “Diﬀerent metrics ‘‘make visible aspects of individuals and groups that are not otherwise perceptible’’ (Lupton, 2014: 859).”
Prevalence of Health Misinformation on Social Media: Systematic Review (2021, background): “Over the last few years, new concerns around privacy have emerged and led governments to tighten regulations around data access and storage [101,102].”
The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data Platform Ready (2015, methodology): “Most prominently, APIs have been used and discussed as “a method for data collection on social media platforms” (Lomborg & Bechmann, 2014).”
The Ethics of Big Data: Current and Foreseeable Issues in Biomedical Contexts (2015, background): “However, new issues are raised by the collection and analysis of data from potentially ‘unwilling’ participants, for example data scraped from social media platforms, smart phone applications, or open web forums (e.g. Krotoski 2012; Lomborg and Bechmann 2014; Markowetz et al. 2014).”
The impact of big data on world-class sustainable manufacturing (2015, background): “Lomborg and Bechmann [104] have argued that application programming interfaces (APIs) can be very useful for collecting data from social media in an ethical manner.”