The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods

Author Anabel Quan-Haase - Luke Sloan

Publisher SAGE

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eBook

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Author

Anabel Quan-Haase - Luke Sloan

Publisher

SAGE

Volume

Edition

2

Copyright

2022

ISBN13

9781529784923

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eBook

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Related Series

Digital Media & Literacy Studies eBooks
Overview

This handbook spans the entire research process, from data collection to analysis and interpretation. This edition has been comprehensively updated and expanded with additional chapters focussing on ethics, privacy and the politics of social media data, along with broader coverage of topics such as data sources; scraping and spidering data; locative data, video data and linked data; platform-specific analysis; analytical tools; and critical social media analysis.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Photo Credits.
Other Frontmatter.
Contents.
List of Figures.
List of Tables.
Notes on the Editors and Contributors.
Introduction.
1: Conceptualizing and Designing Social Media Research.
2: Defining Social Media and Asking Social Media Research Questions: How Well Does the Swiss Army Knife Metaphor Apply?.
3: Before Methods: Social Media Research Considerations.
4: Building Social Media Interdisciplinary Research Teams across Academia, Industry, and Community: Motivations, Challenges, and Policy Frameworks.
5: Key Considerations in the Interpretation of Digital Trace Data.
6: Who Uses Social Media?.
7: Representativeness and Bias in Social Media Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Sampling.
8: Collecting Data.
9: Sourcing Data from Social Media via APIs.
10: Using Social Media in Data Collection: Designing Studies with the Qualitative E-Research Framework.
11: Understanding Individual Web Browsing: Social Media Use in Context.
12: Gathering Behavioral Data from User-Provided Social Media Downloads.
13: Qualitative Approaches to Social Media Data.
14: Small Data, Thick Data: Data Thickening Strategies for Social Media Research.
15: Scaling Up Qualitative Research Methods with Natural Language Processing Tools: The Case-Study of Colombia’s 2018 Presidential Election on Twitter.
16: The Visual in Social Media: Understanding Visual Objects, Mobilities, and Practices.
17: Twitter as Method: Using Twitter as a Tool to Conduct Ethnographic Research.
18: Netnography: An Approach to Ethnography in the Digital Age.
19: Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of Social Media Data: Tools and Techniques.
20: Small Stories Research: A Narrative Paradigm for the Analysis of Social Media.
21: Quantitative Approaches to Social Media Data.
22: Geospatial Analysis.
23: Predictive Analytics with Social Media Data.
24: Machine Learning and Neural Net
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