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The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: London : SAGE Publications, Limited, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (709 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781473987210
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302.2310721
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on the Editors and Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 - Introduction to the Handbook of Social Media Research Methods: Goals, Challenges and Innovations -- PART I - Conceptualising &amp -- Designing Social Media Research -- Chapter 2 - What is Social Media and What Questions Can Social Media Research Help Us Answer? -- Chapter 3 - Big Data - Hype or Revolution? -- Chapter 4 - Building Interdisciplinary Social Media Research Teams: Motivations, Challenges, and Policy Frameworks -- Chapter 5 - Social Media Users' Views on the Ethics of Social Media Research -- Chapter 6 - Social Media Users' Views on the Ethics of Social Media Research -- Chapter 7 - Social Science 'Lite'? Deriving Demographic Proxies from TwitterSocial Science 'Lite'? Deriving Demographic Proxies from Twitter -- PART II - Collection &amp -- Storage -- Chapter 8 - Think Before You Collect: Setting Up a Data Collection Approach for Social Media Studies -- Chapter 9 - Overview - The Social Media Data Processing Pipeline -- Chapter 10 - The Role of APIs in Data Sampling from Social Media -- Chapter 11 - Data Storage, Curation and Preservation -- Chapter 12 - Using Social Media in Data Collection: Designing Studies with the Qualitative E-Research Framework -- PART III - Qualitative Approaches to Social Media Data -- Chapter 13 - Small Data, Thick Data: Thickening Strategies for Trace-based Social Media Research -- Chapter 14 - Visuality in Social Media: Researching Images, Circulations and Practices -- Chapter 15 - Coding of Non-Text Data -- Chapter 16 - Twitter as Method: Using Twitter as a Tool to Conduct Research -- Chapter 17 - Small Stories Research: A Narrative Paradigm for the Analysis of Social Media -- Part IV - Quantitative Approaches to Social Media Data -- Chapter 18 - Geospatial Analysis.
Chapter 19 - Pragmatics of Network Centrality -- Chapter 20 - Predictive Analytics with Social Media Data -- Chapter 21 - Deception Detection and Rumor Debunking for Social Media -- PART V - Diverse Approaches to Social Media Data -- Chapter 22 - From Site-specificity to Hyper-locality: Performances of Place in Social Media -- Chapter 23 - Analyzing Social Media Data and Other Data Sources: A Methodological Overview1 -- Chapter 24 - Listening to Social Rhythms: Exploring Logged Interactional Data Through Sonification -- Chapter 25 - Innovative Social Location-aware Services for Mobile Phones -- PART VI - Research and Analytical Tools -- Chapter 26 - COSMOS: The Collaborative On-line Social Media Observatory -- Chapter 27 - Social Lab: An 'Open Source Facebook' -- Chapter 28 - R for Social Media Analysis -- Chapter 29 - GATE: An Open-source NLP Toolkit for Mining Social Media -- Chapter 30 - A How-to for Using Netlytic to collect and Analyze Social Media Data: A Case Study of the Use of Twitter During the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine -- Chapter 31 - Theme Detection in Social Media -- Chapter 32 - Sentiment Analysis -- PART VII - Social Media Platforms -- Chapter 33 - The Ontology of Tweets: Mixed-Method Approaches to the Study of Twitter -- Chapter 34 - Instagram -- Chapter 35 - Weibo -- Chapter 36 - Foursquare -- Chapter 37 - Facebook as a Research Tool in the Social and Computer Sciences -- Chapter 38 - Big Data and Political Science: The Case of VKontakte and the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine -- Chapter 39 - A Retrospective on State of the Art Social Media Research Methods: Ethical Decisions, Big-small Data Rivalries and the Spectre of the 6Vs -- Index.
Summary: With coverage of the entire research process in social media, data collection and analysis on specific platforms, and innovative developments in the field, this handbook is the ultimate resource for those looking to tackle the challenges that come with doing research in this sphere.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on the Editors and Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 - Introduction to the Handbook of Social Media Research Methods: Goals, Challenges and Innovations -- PART I - Conceptualising &amp -- Designing Social Media Research -- Chapter 2 - What is Social Media and What Questions Can Social Media Research Help Us Answer? -- Chapter 3 - Big Data - Hype or Revolution? -- Chapter 4 - Building Interdisciplinary Social Media Research Teams: Motivations, Challenges, and Policy Frameworks -- Chapter 5 - Social Media Users' Views on the Ethics of Social Media Research -- Chapter 6 - Social Media Users' Views on the Ethics of Social Media Research -- Chapter 7 - Social Science 'Lite'? Deriving Demographic Proxies from TwitterSocial Science 'Lite'? Deriving Demographic Proxies from Twitter -- PART II - Collection &amp -- Storage -- Chapter 8 - Think Before You Collect: Setting Up a Data Collection Approach for Social Media Studies -- Chapter 9 - Overview - The Social Media Data Processing Pipeline -- Chapter 10 - The Role of APIs in Data Sampling from Social Media -- Chapter 11 - Data Storage, Curation and Preservation -- Chapter 12 - Using Social Media in Data Collection: Designing Studies with the Qualitative E-Research Framework -- PART III - Qualitative Approaches to Social Media Data -- Chapter 13 - Small Data, Thick Data: Thickening Strategies for Trace-based Social Media Research -- Chapter 14 - Visuality in Social Media: Researching Images, Circulations and Practices -- Chapter 15 - Coding of Non-Text Data -- Chapter 16 - Twitter as Method: Using Twitter as a Tool to Conduct Research -- Chapter 17 - Small Stories Research: A Narrative Paradigm for the Analysis of Social Media -- Part IV - Quantitative Approaches to Social Media Data -- Chapter 18 - Geospatial Analysis.

Chapter 19 - Pragmatics of Network Centrality -- Chapter 20 - Predictive Analytics with Social Media Data -- Chapter 21 - Deception Detection and Rumor Debunking for Social Media -- PART V - Diverse Approaches to Social Media Data -- Chapter 22 - From Site-specificity to Hyper-locality: Performances of Place in Social Media -- Chapter 23 - Analyzing Social Media Data and Other Data Sources: A Methodological Overview1 -- Chapter 24 - Listening to Social Rhythms: Exploring Logged Interactional Data Through Sonification -- Chapter 25 - Innovative Social Location-aware Services for Mobile Phones -- PART VI - Research and Analytical Tools -- Chapter 26 - COSMOS: The Collaborative On-line Social Media Observatory -- Chapter 27 - Social Lab: An 'Open Source Facebook' -- Chapter 28 - R for Social Media Analysis -- Chapter 29 - GATE: An Open-source NLP Toolkit for Mining Social Media -- Chapter 30 - A How-to for Using Netlytic to collect and Analyze Social Media Data: A Case Study of the Use of Twitter During the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine -- Chapter 31 - Theme Detection in Social Media -- Chapter 32 - Sentiment Analysis -- PART VII - Social Media Platforms -- Chapter 33 - The Ontology of Tweets: Mixed-Method Approaches to the Study of Twitter -- Chapter 34 - Instagram -- Chapter 35 - Weibo -- Chapter 36 - Foursquare -- Chapter 37 - Facebook as a Research Tool in the Social and Computer Sciences -- Chapter 38 - Big Data and Political Science: The Case of VKontakte and the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine -- Chapter 39 - A Retrospective on State of the Art Social Media Research Methods: Ethical Decisions, Big-small Data Rivalries and the Spectre of the 6Vs -- Index.

With coverage of the entire research process in social media, data collection and analysis on specific platforms, and innovative developments in the field, this handbook is the ultimate resource for those looking to tackle the challenges that come with doing research in this sphere.

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