This Wednesday, May 27, 2020 will mark the commencement of the "Welcome to Slumberland" Twitter Project!
Please read below for very important information regarding your rights as a participant to data, anonymity, and confidentiality during the project.
If you have any questions or concerns related to the rights of the participants in the "Welcome to Slumberland" Twitter Project, please direct message @LittleNemo1905 or @zjarondinelli (Principal Investigator) or email Zachary J.A. Rondinelli at zrondinelli@brocku.ca.
Please Note: "Welcome to Slumberland" was reviewed and approved by the Brock University Research Ethics Board (BREB) after delegated review, without revisions, on Friday May 22, 2020 (File #: 19-339 COLLIER).
RIGHTS OF A PARTICIPANT IN THE "WELCOME TO SLUMBERLAND" TWITTER PROJECT:
For the purposes of this project, a participant will be defined as any individual who follows, tweets @, replies to, retweets, direct messages, or otherwise engages with @LittleNemo1905. Data will be defined as tweets, retweets, replies, direct messages, and other interactions with @LittleNemo1905. The only personal identifiers collected for the purposes of the research will be those publicly available on the participants twitter account.
Anyone can participate at any time throughout the life of the project. Participants can join in from the very first strip, the two-hundred and fiftieth or even the four-hundredth. No previous experience with McCay, or his work, is required. In true transactional fashion, every single perspective, experience, and point of view is valid and meaningful.
Following @LittleNemo1905 does not constitute a commitment to ongoing participation in the project. If you would like to follow the account simply to receive a daily dose of McCay’s little dreamer, I encourage you to do so.
Those who do choose to engage in critical conversation surrounding the “Little Nemo” strips likewise do not commit to ongoing participation in the project; you may reply, retweet, direct message, and otherwise engage with the project as frequently, or as infrequently, as you’d like over the course of it’s lifespan.
Furthermore, each potential participant is in full control of their data for the life of the project. Should you choose to remove your contribution from the thread for whatever reason, you are fully entitled to do so.
Since the project is being conducted on a public digital space anonymity and confidentiality will not be a factor in the research.
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