1,733
Views
12
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Researching protest on Facebook: developing an ethical stance for the study of Northern Irish flag protest pages

&
Pages 419-435 | Received 28 Jul 2015, Accepted 01 Oct 2015, Published online: 29 Oct 2015

References

  • Baym, N., & boyd, d. (2012). Socially mediated publicness: An introduction. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 56, 320–329. doi: 10.1080/08838151.2012.705200
  • Bennett, W. L., & Segerberg, A. (2013). The logic of connective action: Digital media and the personalization of contentious politics. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2013). Successful qualitative research: A practical guide for beginners. London: Sage.
  • Brewer, J. (2010). Peace processes: A sociological approach. Cambridge: Polity.
  • British Psychological Society. (2007). Guidelines for ethical practice in psychological research online. Report of the working party on conducting research on the internet. Retrieved June 10, 2015, from http://www.bps.org.uk/system/files/Public%20files/inf206-guidelines-for-internet-mediated-research.pdf
  • Bruckman, A. (2002). Studying the amateur artist: A perspective on disguising data collected in human subjects research on the internet. Ethics and Information Technology, 4, 217–231. doi: 10.1023/A:1021316409277
  • Burkell, J., Fortier, A., Wong, L., & Simpson, J. (2014). Facebook: Public space or private space? Information, Communication & Society, 17(8), 974–985. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.870591
  • Carty, V. (2011). Wired and mobilizing: Social movements, new technology, and electoral politics. London: Routledge.
  • Chadwick, A. (2013). The hybrid media system: Politics and power. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Earl, J., & Kimport, K. (2011). Digitally enabled social change: Activism in the internet age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Eynon, R., Fry, J., & Schroeder, R. (2008). The ethics of internet research. In N. G. Fielding, R. M. Lee, & G. Blank (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of online research methods (pp. 23–41). London: Sage.
  • Facebook. (2015). Terms of Service. Retrieved July 10, 2015, from https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms
  • Farrimond, H. (2013). Doing ethical research. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Genç, K. (2014). Turkey's Twitter army. Index on Censorship, 43(1), 106–110. doi: 10.1177/0306422014522385
  • Gerbaudo, P. (2012). Tweets and the streets. London: Pluto Press.
  • Guelke, A. (2014). Northern Ireland's flags crisis and the enduring legacy of the settler-native divide. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 20(1), 133–151. doi: 10.1080/13537113.2014.879770
  • Herring, S. (1996). Linguistic and critical analysis of computer-mediated communication: Some ethical and scholarly considerations. The Information Society, 12, (2), 153–168. doi: 10.1080/911232343
  • INTERCOMM & Byrne, J. (2013). Flags and protests: Exploring the views, perceptions, and experiences of people directly and indirectly by the flag protests. Belfast: INTERCOMM.
  • Kane, A. (2012). Confidence requites more than a flag. Retrieved August 10, 2014, from http://eamonnmallie.com/2012/12/confidence-requires-more-than-a-flag/
  • King, S. A. (1996). Researching Internet communities: Proposed ethical guidelines for the reporting of results. The Information Society, 12, 119–128. doi: 10.1080/713856145
  • Kozinets, R. V. (2010). Netnography: Doing ethnographic research online. London: Sage.
  • Krotoski, A. K. (2012). Data-driven research: Open data opportunities for growing knowledge, and ethical issues that arise. Insights: The UKSG Journal, 25, 28–32.
  • Lotan, G., Graeff, E., Ananny, M., Gaffney, D., Pearce, I., & boyd, D. (2011). The revolutions were Tweeted: information flows during the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions. International Journal of Communications, 5, Feature, 1375–140.
  • Markham, A. (2012). Fabrication as ethical practice: Qualitative inquiry into ambiguous internet contexts. Information. Communication, and Society, 15, 334–353. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2011.641993
  • Markham, A., Buchanan, E., & AoIR Ethics Working Committee. (2012). Ethical decision making and internet research – Version 2.0. Retrieved from Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/reports/ethics.pdf
  • McDonald, H. (2013, January 6). Belfast union flag dispute is lightning rod for loyalist dissatisfaction. The Guardian. Retrieved August 10, 2015, from http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/06/belfast-union-flag-dispute-loyalist 
  • McGrattan, C. (2012). Memory, politics and identity: Haunted by history. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • McNaught, C., & Lam, P. (2010). Using Wordle as a supplementary research tool. The Qualitative Report, 15, 630–643.
  • Melaugh, M. (2013, February 8). A background note on the protests and violence related to the Union Flag at Belfast City Hall, December 2012–January 2013, Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved August 10, 2014, from http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/identity/flag-2012.htm
  • Morozov, E. (2011). The net delusion: How not to liberate the world. New York: Penguin.
  • Mulvenna, G. (2013, October 29). LAD won't fix anything special feature: Loyalists against democracy. The Gown, 6.
  • Murtagh, B., Graham, B., & Shirlow, P. (2008). Authenticity and stakeholder planning in the segregated city. Progress in Planning, 69(2), 41–92. doi: 10.1016/j.progress.2007.11.001
  • Nissenbaum, H. (2010). Privacy in context: Technology, politics, and the integrity of social life. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Nolan, P. (2014). Northern Ireland peace monitoring report 3. Belfast: Northern Ireland Community Relations Council.
  • Nolan, P., Bryan, D., Dwyer, C., Hayward, K., Radford, K., & Shirlow, P. (2014). The flag dispute: Anatomy of a protest. Belfast: Queen's University Belfast.
  • Novosel, T. (2013). Northern Ireland's lost opportunity: The frustrated promise of political loyalism. London: Pluto.
  • Oates, S. (2013). Revolution stalled: The political limits of the internet in the post-soviet sphere. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Papacharissi, Z. (2015). A networked self: Identity, community and culture on social network sites. London: Routledge.
  • Reilly, P. (2012). Community worker perspectives on the use of new media to promote conflict transformation in Belfast. Urban Studies, 49(15), 3385–3401. doi: 10.1177/0042098012440464
  • Reilly, P. (2015). Every little helps? YouTube, sousveillance and the ‘anti-Tesco’ riot in Bristol. New Media and Society, 17(5), 755–771. doi: 10.1177/1461444813512195
  • Shirlow, P., & McEvoy, K. (2008). Beyond the wire: Former prisoners and conflict transformation in Northern Ireland. London: Pluto Press.
  • Smithey, L. (2013). Unionists, loyalists, and conflict transformation in Northern Ireland. Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Spencer, B. (2013). Loyalists against democracy – Unveiling and assailing sectarianism. Retrieved from http://eamonnmallie.com/2013/10/loyalists-against-democracy-unveiling-and-assailing-sectarianism/
  • Sveningsson-Elm, M. (2009). How do various notions of privacy influence decisions in qualitative internet research? In A. N. Markham & N. K. Baym (Eds.), Internet inquiry: Conversations about method (pp. 69–87). Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
  • Trevisan, F., & Reilly, P. (2014). Ethical dilemmas in researching sensitive issues online: Lessons from the study of disability dissent networks. Information, Communication & Society, 17(9), 1131–1146. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2014.889188
  • Whiteman, N. (2012). Undoing ethics: Rethinking practice in online research. London: Springer.
  • Wilford, R., & Wilson, R. (2003). A route to stability: The review of the Belfast Agreement (Policy Paper). Birmingham: Devolution and Constitutional Change Programme.
  • Young, O. (2014). New media and young people in interface areas of Belfast. Shared Space, 17, 69–84. Retrieved May 1, 2015, from http://www.community-relations.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Orna-Young.pdf
  • Zimmer, M. (2012). Thoughts on privacy and the use of Facebook to recruit research subjects. Retrieved from http://www.michaelzimmer.org/2012/10/19/thoughts-on-privacy-and-the-use-of-facebook-to-recruit-research-subjects/
  • Zuckerman, E. (2015). Cute cats to the rescue? Participatory media and political expression. In D. Allen & J. Light (Eds.), From voice to influence: Understanding citizenship in the digital age (pp. 131–154). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.