Event overview
Part of the 'Something about Data' seminar series
David Moats - PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
"Twitter is currently one of the most popular datasets for digital social research, but it’s rapidly evolving customs and sheer size present serious challenges for both qualitative and quantitative researchers. In this presentation I will describe some of the difficulties of dealing with Twitter data and argue that the process of scraping Twitter is performative: methods of circumscribing data assume the centrality of certain practices, when this centrality is precisely what must be demonstrated. I will then propose an approach to the study of information diffusion based on a visual technique originally developed for the study of innovation in science and technology studies, which allows the researcher to evaluate the role of different sharing practices in the trajectory of hyperlinks."
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Mar 2014 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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