• Skim documents in “Principles”, at Columbia Research Human Subjects Regs + Principles: https://research.columbia.edu/human-subjects-research-regulations. Peruse other documents. 
• Salganik, Chapter 6 and 7.23. 
• Singleton and Straits, “Making Ethical Decisions” and “The Uses of Research” from Chapter 3.
• Skim: Collier, David, James Mahoney, and Jason Seawright. 2004. “Claiming Too Much: Warnings about Selection Bias,” in Henry Brady and David Collier, eds., Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield. On Courseworks. 

Research Readings (in conversation with each other), on Perusall: 

• Kramer, A. D., Guillory, J. E., & Hancock, J. T. (2014). Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(24), 8788–8790. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320040111
• Verma I. M. (2014). Editorial expression of concern: Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(29), 10779. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1412583111
• Boyd, D. (2016). Untangling research and practice: What Facebook’s “emotional contagion” study teaches us. Research Ethics, 12(1), 4-13. 

Recommended Readings: 

• Baumrind, Diana. 1964. “Some Thoughts on Ethics of Research: After Reading Milgram’s ‘Behavioral Study of Obedience’.” American Psychologist 19: 421-423
• Boyd, D., & Crawford, K. (2011, September). Six provocations for big data. In A decade in internet time: Symposium on the dynamics of the internet and society.
• Geddes, Barbara. 2003. “How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias and Related Issues.” Paradigms and Sandcastles: Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. Skim pages 89-129.
• Gordon, E., & Walter, S. (2019). Meaningful inefficiencies: Resisting the logic of technological efficiency in the design of civic systems. In Glas R., Lammes S., De Lange M., Raessens J., & De Vries I. (Eds.), The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture (pp. 310-334). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
• Murphy, K. (2017). Some social scientists are tired of asking for permission. The New York Times.