Welcome and Introduction
- By following the Code of Conduct you will help create a welcoming and supportive environment for all people
- You can use the Etherpad document alongside the lesson website to complete written exercises
- This training will help you think critically about ethics and methods when using web data about music
Overview of Music Research using Web Data
- There is a lot of published research using web data about music with a variety of established methods
- Music and internet scholarship is interdisciplinary and can take many different forms, with a range of potential benefits and challenges
- Researchers should be wary of the context of techno-optimism and consider work in critical data studies
The Law and You
- Data mining is not an ethically neutral process
- Social media platforms collect and process a significant amount of user data, potentially including information with legal protections
- Researchers should carefully consider their research methods with regard to the law and platform policies
Protecting Users
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Protecting You
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Inclusion and Representation
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Storing Data Carefully
- Designing research projects should involve careful consideration of what kind of data to collect, how much data to collect, how to store it, and how long to store it
- The principle of data minimisation encourages you to collect and store less data
- The dynamic nature of internet data suggests it might be better to collect and store more data
- FAIR principles of data management are embedded in university research contexts and should also be carefully considered
Doing Better with Data 1: Access
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Doing Better with Data 2: Reflexivity
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Designing More Responsible Research
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