Limits and possibilities of online social data

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE
Author/s Fabio Giglietto, Luca Rossi
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2015/49 Language Italian
Pages 10 P. 9-18 File size 148 KB
DOI 10.3280/SC2015-049002
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The shift of several everyday activities to digital platforms have brought, among many other changes, an extraordinary availability of data for social scientists. On the one hands this richness opens new opportunities, on the other it poses new challenges. The skills required to analyze large quantity of data, the relationship between quantity and quality and the one between researcher and the private platforms where the data are created and stored are only some example of the open issues addressed in this paper.

Keywords: Online data, Twitter, computational social science

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Fabio Giglietto, Luca Rossi, Limiti e possibilità degli online social data in "SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE " 49/2015, pp 9-18, DOI: 10.3280/SC2015-049002