@inproceedings{37140, abstract = {{Social media have become not only integral parts of our private and professional lives, but also an indispensable source of data for empirical research across a variety of academic disciplines. Applying a Social Media Analytics (SMA) methodology, however, imposes heavy ethical challenges on researchers. Scholars in the Information Systems (IS) discipline must deal with a patchwork of ethical frameworks, regulations, and (missing) institutional support. To initiate a debate on how to develop a common understanding of SMA research ethics, this paper compiles a scoping review of extant literature and suggests a research agenda for IS scholarship on this matter. The review yields a total of eight fundamental principles of ethical SMA research, which provide a starting point to guiding individual researchers towards more ethical conduct. At the same time, this work unearths a multitude of intricate dilemmas that are currently unresolved. The findings of this review will encourage IS scholarship to find its own voice in the debate about social media research ethics.}}, author = {{Marx, Julian and Mirbabaie, Milad}}, booktitle = {{Australasian Journal of Information Systems}}, issn = {{1449-8618}}, keywords = {{Information Systems and Management, Human-Computer Interaction, Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous), Information Systems}}, publisher = {{Australian Journal of Information Systems}}, title = {{{The Investigator’s Dilemma - A Review of Social Media Analytics Research Ethics in Information Systems}}}, doi = {{10.3127/ajis.v26i0.3287}}, volume = {{26}}, year = {{2022}}, }