Facebook recruitment: understanding research relations Prior to data collection

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Table 1: Key Principles of social media recruitment for the ‘Beyond Opposition’ project

Key Principles
1. The project always operates within its ethos
2. Abusive comments are removed regardless of the position they take on the issues
3. Responses are professional and courteous and where appropriate, seek to involve people in the research
4. Responses restate the aims of the research and its purpose
5. At times there is no benefit to be gained by responding
6. Arguments are not engaged in
7. Where conversations are developing, these are only intervened in if necessary
8. If a comment presents a threat of violence (general or specific) it needs to be reported