New and emerging forms of data, including posts harvested from social media sites such as
Twitter, have become part of the sociologist's data diet. In particular, some researchers see …

This chapter provides an overview of the specific legal, ethical, and privacy issues that can
arise when conducting research using Twitter data. Existing literature is reviewed to inform …

Empirical research involving the analysis of Internet-based data raises a number of ethical
challenges. One instance of this is the analysis of Twitter data, in particular when specific …

Over the past decade, the number of people engaging with social media has grown rapidly.
This means that social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are potentially good …

Some researchers consider most social media communications as public, and posts from
networks such as Twitter are routinely harvested and published without anonymization and …

In the agenda-setting introductory chapter of his edited collection Understanding Digital
Humanities, David Berry (2012) argues that the contemporary conjuncture in the history of …

Despite recent and growing interest in using Twitter to examine human behavior and
attitudes, there is still significant room for growth regarding the ability to leverage Twitter data …

A perennial criticism regarding the use of social media in social science research is the lack
of demographic information associated with naturally occurring mediated data such as that …

Social computing systems such as Twitter present new research sites that have provided
billions of data points to researchers. However, the availability of public social media data …

The headache any researcher faces while using Twitter data for social scientific analysis is
that we do not know who tweets. In this article, we report on results from the British Social …