[Linganth] experience with IRB approving use of WhatsApp for data collection?

[Steven Patrick Black]

Hey Lynnette and Ling Anth friends,
I don’t have experience with this but I do kind of maybe remember someone on this listserv previously writing about some app that could be used for journaling/ data collection? You might also try writing to Lise Dobrin (ld4n at virginia.edu<mailto:ld4n at virginia.edu>) who I believe is still in charge of an ad hoc ethics advisory board comprised of former chairs of the Committee on Ethics for the AAA (before that committee was disbanded) (full disclosure, I’m on that advisory board). If you write with a query Lise will collect the responses of the group (which includes a number of really experienced experts on ethics) and send you a response!
Take care,
Steve

Steven P. Black
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Anthropology
Georgia State University



From: Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Lynnette Arnold <larnold at anthro.umass.edu>
Date: Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at 12:02 PM
To: linganth at listserv.linguistlist.org <linganth at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Subject: [Linganth] experience with IRB approving use of WhatsApp for data collection?
Dear colleagues -

Apologies for cross-posting.

If you (or anyone you know) has successfully had your IRB approve use of WhatsApp for data collection with participants, I would love to hear about it!

I am still fighting with my university IRB about digital journaling for my new research project with emergency nurses about reproductive care in contexts of heightened media and political rhetoric about reproductive rights in the lead-up to November's election.

We have proposed using WhatsApp with participants for easy digital journaling between interviews, but IRB is struggling to get the necessary security information from WhatsApp to approve it.

So I thought giving them the names of some universities where the IRB did approve WhatsApp might help to move things along.

Thanks in advance!

Lynnette



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