Current models of data access in social media research offer clear benefits, but are also
fraught in a number of ways, including by posing risks to user privacy, being constrained in …

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the most pressing methodological issues
and challenges social media scholars need to address. Social media is pervasive in …

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In the past ten years, social media has become an integral part of everyday life with large
economic, political, and societal implications. While the influence of traditional media …

The institutions we have come to call “media” have been involved for over a century in
providing an infrastructure for social life and have invested in a quite particular and …

The purpose of this study is to conduct a bibliographic investigation and meta-analysis of the
full body of social media scholarship produced over eight years, since the domain's …

This article sets out to map the broad contours of social media research, teasing out in
particular the ways in which the scholarly literature in the fields of media and communication …

Social media data have provoked a mixed response from researchers. While there is great
enthusiasm for this new source of social data–Twitter data in particular–concerns are also …

Recent decades have witnessed an increased growth in data generated by information,
communication, and technological systems, giving birth to the 'Big Data'paradigm. Despite …

Drawing together the new techniques available to the market researcher into a single
reference, The Handbook of Online and Social Media Research explores how these …