Social Research and community informing
In my quest to finally catch up with everything that I've saved in Pocket for the last month, I came across a post written by Rebecca (luckily not that long ago) where she asks: Should those who study social media communities be required to inform the community of the research results? I think that this is both an easy, yet a very complicated question! I believe that the ethical thing to do is to post to that community once your research is done (if not earlier) to let them know. If it's on twitter for example I would expect the researcher(s) to post something on that community hashtag to indicate what the research was about and what the results were. It's fairly easy (and free) to setup a Google Site or a Wikispace, or even a Weebly site to post a few pages about the research, you as researcher, and the findings. Personally I think that it would be good, for research purposes, to invite commentary from that community so that they cou...