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The Apomediated World: Regulating Research When Social Media Has Changed Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Dan O’Connor
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Social media, meaning digital technologies and platforms such as blogs, wikis, forums, content aggregators, sharing sites, and social networks like Facebook and Twitter, have profoundly changed the way that information can be shared online. Now, almost anyone with a broadband internet connection or a smart phone can share ideas, data, and opinions with just about anyone else on the planet. This change has serious implications for the way in which human subjects research can be conducted and, concomitantly, for the ways in which such research may be regulated. This article explores some of these issues.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , Summer 2013 , pp. 470 - 483
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2013

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