During this one-day workshop event special focus will be given to the ethics of personal data in both theory and practice and how social medial data (small data) can be accessed and analysed to:

1. Understand the ways people use social media and what this means for individuals and society.
2. Understand social phenomena and events expressed in social media by drawing upon social media as a critical, and timely, source of information.
3. Develop facilities and approaches that are sensitive to the personal nature of human data: Citizen centric approaches.
4. Promote responsible innovation in the capture, analysis and use of human data.

Programme

9.25-9.30 Dr Elvira Perez (University of Nottingham) – Welcome/Introduction
9.30-10.15 Dr Jens Binder (Nottingham Trent University) – Title: “Self-report does not equal self-report: Levels of personalisation of data in social media research”
10.15-11.00 Professor Karen Douglas (University of Kent) – Title: ‘The social psychology of social media: Individuals, groups and society’

11.00-11.15 Refreshments break

11.15-12.00 Dr Ilka Gleibs (London School of Economics) – Title:‘Turning Virtual Public Spaces into Laboratories:Thoughts on Conducting Online Field Studies UsingSocial Network Site’
12.15-1300 Professor Monica Whitty (University of Leicester) – Title: ‘Collection of Big Data: Re-thinking issues around informed consent’

13.00-1400 Lunch break

14.00-15.00 Parallel sessions
Workshop A. Social Media access and analysis: Citizen centric approaches (Room A07) facilitated by Ansgar Koere (Senior Research Fellow at CaSMa)

Workshop B. Ethics of personal data: Consent, anonymity issues, privacy and trust (Room A06) facilitated by Victoria Betton, (mHealth Programme Director) and Elvira Perez (Senior Research at CaSMa)

15.00-15.15 Refreshments break

15.15- 16.15 Parallel sessions
Workshop A. Social Media access and analysis: Citizen centric approaches (Room A07) facilitated by Ansgar Koere (Senior Research Fellow at CaSMa)

Workshop B. Ethics of personal data: Consent, anonymity issues, privacy and trust (Room A06) facilitated by Victoria Betton, (mHealth Programme Director) and Elvira Perez (Senior Research at CaSMa)

16.15-16.30 Closure

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