Sloan L., Quan-Haase A. (eds.). The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods

London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017. — 728 p. — ISBN10: 1473916321; ISBN13: 978-1473916326The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods offers a step-by-step guide to overcoming the challenges inherent in research projects that deal with ‘big and broad data’, from the formulation of research questions through to the interpretation of findings. The handbook includes chapters on specific social media platforms such as Twitter, Sina Weibo and Instagram, as well as a series of critical chapters. The holistic approach is organised into the following sections: conceptualising & Designing Social Media Research; collection & Storage; qualitative Approaches to Social Media Data; quantitative Approaches to Social Media Data; diverse Approaches to Social Media Data; analytical Tools; Social Media Platforms. This handbook is the single most comprehensive resource for any scholar or graduate student embarking on a social media project.Conceptualising & Designing Social Media ResearchWhat is Social Media and What Questions Can Social Media Research Help Us Answer?
Big Data – Hype or Revolution?
Building Interdisciplinary Social Media Research Teams: Motivations, Challenges, and Policy Frameworks
Social Media Users’ Views on the Ethics of Social Media Research
The Role of Online Reputation Management, Trolling, and Personality Traits in the Crafting of the Virtual Self on Social Media
Social Science ‘Lite’? Deriving Demographic Proxies from TwitterCollection & StorageThink Before You Collect: Setting Up a Data Collection Approach for Social Media Studies
Overview – The Social Media Data Processing Pipeline
The Role of APIs in Data Sampling from Social Media
Data Storage, Curation and Preservation
Using Social Media in Data Collection: Designing Studies with the Qualitative E-Research FrameworkQualitative Approaches To Social Media DataSmall Data, Thick Data: Thickening Strategies for Trace-based Social Media Research
Visuality in Social Media: Researching Images, Circulations and Practices
Coding of Non-Text Data
Twitter as Method: Using Twitter as a Tool to Conduct Research
Small Stories Research: A Narrative Paradigm for the Analysis of Social MediaQuantitative Approaches To Social Media DataGeospatial Analysis
Pragmatics of Network Centrality
Predictive Analytics with Social Media Data
Deception Detection and Rumor Debunking for Social MediaDiverse Approaches To Social Media DataFrom Site-specificity to Hyper-locality: Performances of Place in Social Media
Analyzing Social Media Data and Other Data Sources: A Methodological Overview
Listening to Social Rhythms: Exploring Logged Interactional Data Through Sonification
Innovative Social Location-aware Services for Mobile PhonesResearch And Analytical ToolsCOSMOS: The Collaborative On-line Social Media Observatory
Social Lab: An ‘Open Source Facebook’
R for Social Media Analysis
GATE: An Open-source NLP Toolkit for Mining Social Media
A How-to for Using Netlytic to Collect and Analyze Social Media Data: A Case Study of the Use of Twitter During the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine
Theme Detection in Social Media
Sentiment AnalysisSocial Media PlatformsThe Ontology of Tweets: Mixed-Method Approaches to the Study of Twitter
Instagram
Weibo
Foursquare
Facebook as a Research Tool in the Social and Computer Sciences
Big Data and Political Science: The Case of VKontakte and the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine
A Retrospective on State of the Art Social Media Research Methods: Ethical Decisions, Big-small Data Rivalries and the Spectre of the 6Vs