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• New ways in exporting Society: The potential of donation.based digital data collection

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  Kmetty Zoltan

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  More and more digital data is being generated every day, and more and more social science
  analyses are using Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook data. Many international and national studies
  have already explored the social science opportunities and dilemmas raised by the phenomenon
  of ‚big data’ - but the issue of ‚access to data’ has only been touched upon tangentially. And
  access to data is becoming increasingly difficult. What can we do if market players close the
  access to their data, and, if we find data available, the Research Ethics Board tells us to stop? The
  answer is simple: go to the users and ask them for the data. This approach is what the literature
  calls data donation. This paper will describe the data donation approach in detail, focusing on
  how researchers can access data through users on the current major Western platforms. The
  practical feasibility of data donation access will be illustrated based on a domestic pilot study.