| Analyzing Social Media Data and Web Networks 2014 Edition Contributor(s): Cantijoch, M. (Editor), Gibson, R. (Editor), Ward, S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1349446807 ISBN-13: 9781349446803 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Interactive & Multimedia - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy - Social Science | Methodology |
| Dewey: 302.231 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.78 lbs) 303 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |