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Putting the methodological brakes on claims to measure national happiness through Twitter : methodological limitations in social media analytics
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Jensen, Eric (2017) Putting the methodological brakes on claims to measure national happiness through Twitter : methodological limitations in social media analytics. PLoS One, 12 (9). e0180080. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0180080 ISSN 1932-6203.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180080
Abstract
With the rapid global proliferation of social media, there has been growing interest in using this existing source of easily accessible ‘big data’ to develop social science knowledge. However, amidst the big data gold rush, it is important that long-established principles of good social research are not ignored. This article critically evaluates Mitchell et al.’s (2013) study, ‘The Geography of Happiness: Connecting Twitter Sentiment and Expression, Demographics, and Objective Characteristics of Place’, demonstrating the importance of attending to key methodological issues associated with secondary data analysis.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HA Statistics | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Social sciences -- Statistical methods, Big data, Twitter (Firm) | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | PLoS One | ||||||
Publisher: | Public Library of Science | ||||||
ISSN: | 1932-6203 | ||||||
Official Date: | 7 September 2017 | ||||||
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Volume: | 12 | ||||||
Number: | 9 | ||||||
Article Number: | e0180080 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0180080 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 October 2017 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 6 October 2017 |
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