Chapter
Chapter 1 - Introduction to the Handbook of Social Media Research Methods: Goals, Challenges and Innovations
PART I - Conceptualising & Designing Social Media Research
Chapter 2 - What is Social Media and What Questions Can Social Media Research Help Us Answer?
Chapter 3 - Big Data – Hype or Revolution?
Chapter 4 - Building Interdisciplinary Social Media Research Teams: Motivations, Challenges, and Policy Frameworks
Chapter 5 - Social Media Users’ Views on the Ethics of Social Media Research
Chapter 6 - Social Media Users’ Views on the Ethics of Social Media Research
Chapter 7 - Social Science ‘Lite’? Deriving Demographic Proxies from TwitterSocial Science ‘Lite’? Deriving Demographic Proxies from Twitter
PART II - Collection & Storage
Chapter 8 - Think Before You Collect: Setting Up a Data Collection Approach for Social Media Studies
Chapter 9 - Overview – The Social Media Data Processing Pipeline
Chapter 10 - The Role of APIs in Data Sampling from Social Media
Chapter 11 - Data Storage, Curation and Preservation
Chapter 12 - Using Social Media in Data Collection: Designing Studies with the Qualitative E-Research Framework
PART III - Qualitative Approaches
to Social Media Data
Chapter 13 - Small Data, Thick Data: Thickening Strategies for Trace-based Social Media Research
Chapter 14 - Visuality in Social Media: Researching Images,
Circulations and Practices
Chapter 15 - Coding of Non-Text Data
Chapter 16 - Twitter as Method: Using Twitter as a Tool to Conduct Research
Chapter 17 - Small Stories Research: A Narrative Paradigm for the Analysis of Social Media
Part IV - Quantitative Approaches to Social Media Data
Chapter 18 - Geospatial Analysis
Chapter 19 - Pragmatics of Network Centrality
Chapter 20 - Predictive Analytics with Social Media Data
Chapter 21 - Deception Detection and Rumor Debunking for Social Media
PART V - Diverse Approaches
to Social Media Data
Chapter 22 - From Site-specificity to Hyper-locality: Performances of Place in Social Media
Chapter 23 - Analyzing Social Media Data and Other Data Sources: A Methodological Overview1
Chapter 24 - Listening to Social Rhythms: Exploring Logged Interactional Data Through Sonification
Chapter 25 - Innovative Social Location-aware Services for Mobile Phones
PART VI - Research and Analytical Tools
Chapter 26 - COSMOS: The Collaborative On-line Social Media Observatory
Chapter 27 - Social Lab:
An ‘Open Source Facebook’
Chapter 28 - R for Social Media Analysis
Chapter 29 - GATE: An Open-source NLP Toolkit for Mining Social Media
Chapter 30 - 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
Chapter 31 - Theme Detection in Social Media
Chapter 32 - Sentiment Analysis
PART VII - Social Media Platforms
Chapter 33 - The Ontology of Tweets:
Mixed-Method Approaches
to the Study of Twitter
Chapter 37 - Facebook as a Research Tool in the Social and Computer Sciences
Chapter 38 - Big Data and Political Science:
The Case of VKontakte and
the 2014 Euromaidan
Revolution in Ukraine
Chapter 39 - A Retrospective on State of the Art Social Media Research Methods: Ethical Decisions, Big-small Data Rivalries and the Spectre of the 6Vs