Being a participant
What does it mean to participate
All people participating as subjects in the project will be informed in detail of the project's purposes, data collection, routines for data processing and security, etc. They will be asked for consent after they have received all relevant information. They have the right to withdraw from the study at any time. Personal information is treated confidentially, and pseudonymized to protect subjects' identities.
What kind of information will we collect
All subjects will be interviewed, and asked about public issues they are interested in, media habits, resources, and similar. Some subjects will write media diaries, some will be observed in their everyday life, and some will provide digital tracking data showing their use of news media or social media.
The data collection will be guided by the data minimization principle; we will only collect data which is relevant to the project, and no more than neccessary.
Data about third parties
Sometimes, subjects will mention other people during data collection. Digital trace data from social media could also contain information about third parties.
The PREPARE project is dedicated to protecting the privacy of third parties. We will not collect data about third parties unless it is relevant to the project, and the data will be treated confidentiality. Third parties are given pseudonyms, and they are never quoted in academic papers or otherwise highlighted in the project's results. Data about third parties is only used to contextualize findings.