Laura Boeschoten

Biographic Data

ID1948260
NAMELaura Boeschoten
GIVEN NAMESLaura
FAMILY NAMEBoeschoten
SIGNATUREBOESCHOTEN L
AFFILIATIONSUtrecht University
ORCID0000-0002-3536-0474
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS36
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Meaningful informed consent? How participants experience and understand data donation

    Open AccessTim Groot Kormelink, Fiore Houwing et al.ARTICLEInformation Communication & Society2026

    Data donation makes it possible to invite participants to request and share their data from digital platforms for research purposes. While it is a user-centric approach to digital trace data collection, little is known about how participants experience and understand the data donation process. This study therefore asked twenty participants to verbalize their thoughts and actions as they went through data donation (from Google, YouTube, Facebook, …

  • How Much Data Should I Request? Balancing Richness and Compliance in Digital Trace Data Donations

    Open AccessErnesto De León, Laura Boeschoten et al.ARTICLESocial Science Computer Review2026References: 9

    Digital trace “data donation” studies offer researchers a unique opportunity to collect high-quality behavioral data, but decisions about the scope of requested data can impact both dataset richness and participant compliance. This paper examines the tradeoffs between requesting larger data packages, which include more extensive historical records, and participants’ willingness to donate. In a randomized experiment with Facebook and Instagram dat…

  • Exploring VoD Services through Data Donations

    Open AccessKarin Van Es, Dennis Nguyen et al.ARTICLEMedia Industries2025

    Researching video-on-demand (VoD) services is notoriously challenging as these platforms maintain tight and strategic control over consumption data. To address this barrier, this chapter explores data donations as an innovative method for accessing real-world viewing data, made possible by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union. Under the GDPR, individuals can request their personal data from platforms like Netflix an…

  • Best practices for studies using digital data donation

    Open AccessThijs C Carrière, Laura Boeschoten et al.ARTICLEQuality & Quantity2025

    Digital trace data form a rich, growing source of data for social sciences and humanities. Data donation offers an innovative and ethical approach to collect these digital trace data. In data donation studies, participants request a copy of the digital trace data a data controller (e.g., large digital social media or video platforms) collected about them. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation obliges platforms to provide such a …

  • Fulfilling data access obligations

    Open AccessValerie Hase, Jef Ausloos et al.ARTICLEInternet Policy Review2024

    Research into digital platforms has become increasingly difficult. One way to overcome these difficulties is to build on data access rights in EU data protection law, which requires platforms to offer users a copy of their data. In data donation studies, researchers ask study participants to exercise this right and donate their data to science. However, there is increasing evidence that platforms do not comply with designated laws. We first discu…

  • It is time to ensure research access to platform data

    Open AccessPatti M Valkenburg, Amber Van Der Wal et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2024References: 6

  • Digital Trace Data Collection for Social Media Effects Research

    Open AccessJakob Ohme, Theo Araujo et al.ARTICLECommunication Methods and Measures2023Cited by: 20References: 13

    In social media effects research, the role of specific social media content is understudied, in part attributable to the fact that communication science previously lacked methods to access social media content directly. Digital trace data (DTD) can shed light on textual and audio-visual content of social media use and enable the analysis of content usage on a granular individual level that has been previously unavailable. However, because digital…

  • Open data work for empowered deliberative democracy

    Open AccessErna Ruijer, Carmen Dymanus et al.ARTICLEGovernment Information Quarterly2023Cited by: 1References: 10

    Open government data have the potential to facilitate democratic debate and collaboration between government and citizens. This assumes that citizens can effectively use data. However, not all citizens possess these skills. Building on the Empowered Deliberative Democracy Framework, this study examined how open data work - a variety of interventions and activities facilitated by intermediaries - can foster inclusive democratic processes at the lo…

  • Promises and Pitfalls of Social Media Data Donations

    Open AccessIrene I Van Driel, Anastasia Giachanou et al.ARTICLECommunication Methods and Measures2022Cited by: 15References: 6

    Studies assessing the effects of social media use are largely based on measures of time spent on social media. In recent years, scholars increasingly ask for more insights in social media activities and content people engage with. Data Download Packages (DDPs), the archives of social media platforms that each European user has the right to download, provide a new and promising method to collect timestamped and content-based information about soci…