The Sorrows of Scraping for Science Why Platforms Struggle with Ensuring Data Access for Academics Heldt, Amélie Author aut Kettemann, Matthias C. Author aut Leerssen, Paddy Author aut Text xx# 2020 Verfassungsblog 2020-11-30 eng
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 Access to data is an overall challenge for researchers when investigating social media platforms' content moderation policies and practices. Researchers need empirical evidence to ground their arguments and public interest research. Platforms have not only not providing data, but are, in fact, further restricting access. Both platforms and governments should make an effort to improve on the availability of data for research, and, to this end, clarify the law in this space. CC BY-SA 4.0 Heldt, Amélie funded by the government Data Access Facebook gdpr Research Transparency 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-sorrows-of-scraping-for-science/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20201130-220222-0 201130 10.17176/20201130-220222-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)