Determinants of willingness to donate data from social media platforms

• Published in: Information, communication & society Vol. 28; no. 7; pp. 1324 - 1349
• Main Authors: Kmetty, Zoltán, Stefkovics, Ádám, Számely, Júlia, Deng, Dongning, Kellner, Anikó, Pauló, Edit, Omodei, Elisa, Koltai, Júlia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 19.05.2025
• Subjects: Data donation; data download package (DDP); data-sharing; digital trace data; linking survey data

Social media data donation through data download packages (DDPs) is a promising new way of collecting individual-level digital trace data with informed consent. Nevertheless, given the novelty of this approach, little is known about whether and how people would share their data with researchers, alt...