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Applied Business Research and Ethics

Executive Summary of Ethics of Using Social Media for Data Collection

This discussion paper is grounded on the analysis of key issues which are explained in the journal article “Silences of ethical practice: dilemmas for researchers using social media” and written by Henderson, Johnson and Auld (2013). Through social networking sites, social media applications are majorly used for interaction. This paper is built on secondary qualitative research to propose the theoretical understanding regarding the key issues presented in data gathering using through social media platforms. The research findings represent that the key issues in data gathering through social media are privacy, confidentiality, reporting activity, content duration, public posts and working with children and young people. This report finds that the identified key issues in the given journal article are aligned with the ethical issues of res....