Public Concern About Monitoring Twitter Users and Their Conversations to Recruit for Clinical Trials: Survey Study

• Main Authors: Reuter, Katja (Author), Zhu, Yifan (Author), Angyan, Praveen (Author), Le, NamQuyen (Author), Merchant, Akil A (Author), Zimmer, Michael (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundSocial networks such as Twitter offer the clinical research community a novel opportunity for engaging potential study participants based on user activity data. However, the availability of public social media data has led to new ethical challenges about respecting user privacy and the app...