Analyzing social media data and web networks

Abstract

As governments, citizens and organizations have moved online there is an increasing
need for academic enquiry to adapt to this new context for communication and political
action. This adaptation is crucially dependent on researchers being equipped with the
necessary methodological tools to extract, analyze and visualize patterns of web activity.
This volume profiles the latest techniques being employed by social scientists to collect
and interpret data from some of the most popular social media applications, the political
parties' own online activist spaces, and the wider system of hyperlinks that structure the
inter-connections between these sites. Including contributions from a range of academic
disciplines including Political Science, Media and Communication Studies, Economics,
and Computer Science, this study showcases a new methodological approach that has
been expressly designed to capture and analyze web data in the process of investigating
substantive questions.

Citation

(2014). M. Cantijoch, M. Gibson, & S. Ward (Eds.), Analyzing social media data and web networks. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137276773

• Book Type: Authored Book
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: Apr 27, 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• ISBN: 9781349446803
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137276773
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137276773
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