Collecting your memories on social media
Here at Telephonic Youth, we’re looking to collect as many memories as we can about young people’s telephone use in 1980s and 90s Britain. We’re now collecting memories on our Twitter and Instagram accounts, and we’d love it if you shared your story with us.
If you post a memory on one of our social media sites, we’ll get in touch to ask if you’re happy for us to use your memory and save it as part of our research. We would also like to be able to quote your memory in our research outcomes, but we would only do this if you give us your permission.
We want to be clear about what data we would collect: as well as your memory, we’ll collect your username (but only if that is required by the social media platform) and the date and time of your message. We’ll also keep a record of your permission to use this data. All of your data will be held in accordance with data protection legislation and saved securely by the University of Southampton, and it will be accessed only by the research team and responsible members of the University of Southampton or individuals from regulatory authorities who may be given access to the data for monitoring purposes.
If you’d prefer us not to save your memory or quote from it, then we would only record the theme of your memory for our research, and we would not save your post or any of your details.
Taking part in this research is voluntary. If you do take part we hope you won’t experience any anxieties or concerns. However, if participating in this study raises any issues for you, we recommend that you contact one of the following resources: Childline (free phone number 0800 1111) or MIND (MIND Infoline is 0300 123 3393).
If you have contributed a memory to our research project on Twitter or Instagram, you can contact the research team on our social media platforms to ask to see the research outcomes. If you change your mind later and decide that you want to withdraw your post/memory from our research, you can also contact us on our social media platforms to let us know, and we will delete the data we had saved about your post from our research.
The Telephonic Youth Project is led by Dr Eve Colpus and based at the University of Southampton. The project has ethics approvals from the University of Southampton ERGO numbers 56966 and 67005. If you have any questions about your rights as a participant in this research, or if you feel that you have been placed at risk, you may contact the Head of Research Integrity and Governance at the University of Southampton: rgoinfo@soton.ac.uk.
Data Protection Privacy Notice
The University of Southampton conducts research to the highest standards of research integrity. As a publicly-funded organisation, the University has to ensure that it is in the public interest when we use personally-identifiable information about people who have agreed to take part in research. This means that when you agree to take part in a research study, we will use information about you in the ways needed, and for the purposes specified, to conduct and complete the research project. Under data protection law, ‘Personal data’ means any information that relates to and is capable of identifying a living individual. The University’s data protection policy governing the use of personal data by the University can be found on its website (https://www.southampton.ac.uk/legalservices/what-we-do/data-protection-and-foi.page).
Our privacy notice for research participants provides more information on how the University of Southampton collects and uses your personal data when you take part in one of our research projects and can be found at http://www.southampton.ac.uk/assets/sharepoint/intranet/ls/Public/Research%20and%20Integrity%20Privacy%20Notice/Privacy%20Notice%20for%20Research%20Participants.pdf
If you have any questions about how your personal data is used, or wish to exercise any of your rights, please consult the University’s data protection webpage (https://www.southampton.ac.uk/legalservices/what-we-do/data-protection-and-foi.page) where you can make a request using our online form. If you need further assistance, please contact the University’s Data Protection Officer (data.protection@soton.ac.uk).
