Doing social media analytics



Brooker, Phillip ORCID: 0000-0003-1189-4647, Barnett, Julie and Cribbin, Timothy
(2016) Doing social media analytics. Big Data & Society, 3 (2). pp. 1-12.

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Abstract

In the few years since the advent of ‘Big Data’ research, social media analytics has begun to accumulate studies drawing on social media as a resource and tool for research work. Yet, there has been relatively little attention paid to the development of methodologies for handling this kind of data. The few works that exist in this area often reflect upon the implications of ‘grand’ social science methodological concepts for new social media research (i.e. they focus on general issues such as sampling, data validity, ethics, etc.). By contrast, we advance an abductively oriented methodological suite designed to explore the construction of phenomena played out through social media. To do this, we use a software tool – Chorus – to illustrate a visual analytic approach to data. Informed by visual analytic principles, we posit a two-by-two methodological model of social media analytics, combining two data collection strategies with two analytic modes. We go on to demonstrate each of these four approaches ‘in action’, to help clarify how and why they might be used to address various research questions.

Item Type: Article
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 14 Jul 2020 09:55
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2023 23:46
DOI: 10.1177/2053951716658060
Open Access URL: https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/publications/...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3093547

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