The Sage handbook of social media research methods / Luke Sloan, Anabel Quan-Haase.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sloan, Luke.

Contributor:

Quan-Haase, Anabel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Online social networks--Research--Methodology.

Online social networks.

Research.

Methodology.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (679 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Inc, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods offers a step-by-step guide to overcoming the challenges inherent in research projects that deal with 'big and broad data', from the formulation of research questions through to the interpretation of findings. The handbook includes chapters on specific social media platforms such as Twitter, Sina Weibo and Instagram, as well as a series of critical chapters. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Handbook of Social Media Research Methods: Goals, Challenges and Innovations / Anabel Quan-Haase Quan-Haase, Anabel, Luke Sloan Sloan, Luke 1

Part I Conceptualising & Designing Social Media Research 11

2 What is Social Media and What Questions Can Social Media Research Help Us Answer? / Lori McCay-Peet McCay-Peet, Lori, Anabel Quan-Haase Quan-Haase, Anabel 13

3 Big Data - Hype or Revolution? / Rob Kitchin Kitchin, Rob 27

4 Building Interdisciplinary Social Media Research Teams: Motivations. Challenges, and Policy Frameworks / Anabel Quan-Haase Quan-Haase, Anabel, Lori McCay-Peet McCay-Peet, Lori 40

5 Social Media Users' Views on the Ethics of Social Media Research / Kelsey Beninger Beninger, Kelsey 57

6 The Role of Online Reputation Management, Trolling, and Personality Traits in the Crafting of the Virtual Self on Social Media / Shuzhe Yang Yang, Shuzhe, Anabel Quan-Haase Quan-Haase, Anabel, Andrew D. Nevin Nevin, Andrew D., Yimin Chen Chen, Yimin 74

7 Social Science 'Lite'? Deriving Demographic Proxies from Twitter / Luke Sloan Sloan, Luke 90

Part II Collection & Storage 105

8 Think Before You Collect: Setting Up a Data Collection Approach for Social Media Studies / Philipp Mayr Mayr, Philipp, Katrin Weller Weller, Katrin 107

9 Overview - The Social Media Data Processing Pipeline / David M. Brown Brown, David M., Adriana Sota-Corominas Sota-Corominas, Adriana, Juan Luis Suárez Suárez, Juan Luis, Javier de la Rosa Rosa, Javier de la 125

10 The Role of APIs in Data Sampling from Social Media / Dietmar Janetzko Janetzko, Dietmar 146

11 Data Storage, Curation and Preservation / Alex Voss Voss, Alex, Ilia Lvov Lvov, Ilia, Sara Day Thomson Thomson, Sara Day 161

12 Using Social Media in Data Collection: Designing Studies with the Qualitative E-Research Framework / Janet Salmons Salmons, Janet 177

Part III Qualitative Approaches to Social Media Data 197

13 Small Data, Thick Data: Thickening Strategies for Trace-based Social Media Research / Guillaume Latzko-Toth Latzko-Toth, Guillaume, Claudine Bonueau Bonueau, Claudine, Mélanie Millette Millette, Mélanie 199

14 Visuality in Social Media: Researching Images, Circulations and Practices / Martin Hand Hand, Martin 215

15 Coding of Non-Text Data / Diane Rasmussen Pennington Pennington, Diane Rasmussen 232

16 Twitter as Method: Using Twitter as a Tool to Conduct Research / Bonnie Stewart Stewart, Bonnie 251

17 Small Stories Research: A Narrative Paradigm for the Analysis of Social Media / Alexandra Georgakopoulou Georgakopoulou, Alexandra 266

Part IV Quantitative Approaches to Social Media Data 283

18 Geospatial Analysis / Olga Buchel Buchel, Olga, Diane Rasmussen Pennington Pennington, Diane Rasmussen 285

19 Pragmatics of Network Centrality / Shadi Ghajar-Khosravi Ghajar-Khosravi, Shadi, Mark Chignell Chignell, Mark 309

20 Predictive Analytics with Social Media Data / Niels Buus Lassen Lassen, Niels Buus, Lisbeth la Cour Cour, Lisbeth la, Ravi Vatrapu Vatrapu, Ravi 328

21 Deception Detection and Rumor Debunking for Social Media / Victoria L. Rubin Rubin, Victoria L. 342

Part V Diverse Approaches to Social Media Data 365

22 From Site-specificity to Hyper-locality: Performances of Place in Social Media / Nadav Hochman Hochman, Nadav 367

23 Analyzing Social Media Data and Other Data Sources: A Methodological Overview / Frauke Zeller Zeller, Frauke 386

24 Listening to Social Rhythms: Exploring Logged Interactional Data Through Sonification / Jack Jamieson Jamieson, Jack, Jeffrey Boase Boase, Jeffrey 405

25 Innovative Social Location-aware Services for Mobile Phones / Bernhard Klein Klein, Bernhard, Klein-Dietrich Reips Reips, Klein-Dietrich 421

Part VI Research and Analytical Tools 439

26 COSMOS: The Collaborative On-line Social Media Observatory / Jeffrey Morgan Morgan, Jeffrey 441

27 Social Lab: An 'Open Source Facebook' / Ulf-Dietrich Reips Reips, Ulf-Dietrich, Pablo Garaizar Garaizar, Pablo 475

28 R for Social Media Analysis / Simon Hegelich Hegelich, Simon 486

29 GATE: An Open-source NLP Toolkit for Mining Social Media / Kalina Bontcheva Bontcheva, Kalina 499

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 / Anatoliy Gruzd Gruzd, Anatoliy, Philip Mai Mai, Philip, Andrea Kampen Kampen, Andrea 513

31 Theme Detection in Social Media / Daniel Angus Angus, Daniel 530

32 Sentiment Analysis / Mike Thelwall Thelwall, Mike 545

Part VII Social Media Platforms 557

33 The Ontology of Tweets: Mixed-Method Approaches to the Study of Twitter / Dhiraj Murthy Murthy, Dhiraj 559

34 Instagram / Linnea Laestadius Laestadius, Linnea 573

35 Weibo / Xiao Hu Hu, Xiao, Chen Qiao Qiao, Chen, King-wa Fu Fu, King-wa 593

36 Foursquare / Matthew J. Williams Williams, Matthew J., Martin Chorley Chorley, Martin 610

37 Facebook as a Research Tool in the Social and Computer Sciences / Jessica Vitak Vitak, Jessica 627

38 Big Data and Political Science: The Case of VKontakte and the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine / Anatoliy Gruzd Gruzd, Anatoliy, Ben O'Bright O'Bright, Ben 645

39 A Retrospective on State of the Art Social Media Research Methods: Ethical Decisions, Big-small Data Rivalries and the Spectre of the 6Vs / Luke Sloan Sloan, Luke, Anabel Quan-Haase Quan-Haase, Anabel 662.

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ISBN:

9781473983847

OCLC:

1026356966

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