Regulating Social Media and Internet Research: Public, Private, or What?

Ivor Pritchard, Ph.D. is Senior Advisor to the Director at OHRP. Dr. Pritchard’s plenary address at an OHRP-sponsored Research Community Forum in October, 2016 discussed how human research regulations pertain to social media and internet research, and how changing conceptions of privacy impact the ethics of research using social media and the internet.