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A short reading list on the topic ‘Digital by-product data and the social sciences’
Yesterday I posted some description and an outline of my module ‘Digital by-product data and the social sciences‘. Afterwards a couple of people asked if I’d be happy to share the readings, which I certainly am. So I managed to … Continue reading
Digital by-product data and the social sciences (my postgraduate module)
Over the last two or three weeks I’ve been working on my postgraduate module ‘Digital by-product data and the social sciences’. The module ran for the first time last year and I’ve been trying to develop the content a bit … Continue reading
Playing with Digital By-Product Data: an indicative example
The new open access journal Necsus: European Journal of Media Studies contains various types of articles and reviews. A little while ago I wrote a web review of the site tweetolife.com for them. The review is called ‘Playing with Digital … Continue reading
Using social media data to do social research
My article ‘Using Social Media Data Aggregators to do Social Research’ has been published in Sociological Research Online. This piece looks at how commercial forms of software can be used extract and analyse data from social media. I’ve tried to … Continue reading
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