Social Media: When Should the University Intervene?
An interesting article from Australia currently available free of charge from the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. Topics covered in the piece include are staff over-sensitive to criticism and can student websites be regulated.
See other full-text reports on education issues this week.
Selfie culture: see this blogs posting earlier this week for research links.
Research Ethics and Facebook: This week a study which involved the manipulation of news feeds on Facebook caused controversy.
The Conversation has a good discussion of the issues raised by Facebook.
Most universities and funding bodies have their own ethics guidelines, see the ESRC for examples. A good introduction for researchers is the Ethics Guidebook and the social science research ethics pages Lancaster University.
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