.@dfreelon @kreissdaniel For 1) we need to develop a theory of measurement of social phenomena through digital trace data.
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Replying to @ajungherr
@ajungherr@kreissdaniel Seems like it'd be hard to do this generally. The value and meanings of traces aren't static3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @dfreelon
@dfreelon@ajungherr you are right Deen - this applies to all mediums (but the Twitter study phenomenon seems to be particularly egregious)2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @kreissdaniel
@kreissdaniel@dfreelon@ajungherr Sorry if you've seen.Twitter has particular problems—not just representativeness. http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM14/paper/view/8062/8151 …2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @zeynep
@zeynep@kreissdaniel@ajungherr Yeah, I cite and rec this often. Twitter's method issues shd be noted, data shd fit qs, of course1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @dfreelon
@dfreelon You do, Deen but field awash in "I scraped Twitter data" but not much else reflection studies. Still.@kreissdaniel@ajungherr2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @zeynep
@zeynep@kreissdaniel@ajungherr TBH I think comm is actually better at this than the ACM and IEEE confs. That's a paradigmatic difference2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @dfreelon
@dfreelon@zeynep@kreissdaniel@ajungherr I think Twitter data is so easy to get that it suffers this concern more than other datasets.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @syardi
@syardi@dfreelon@kreissdaniel@ajungherr I was counting 80+% of papers in some computational social sciencey confs from Twitter data.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @zeynep
@zeynep@syardi@kreissdaniel@ajungherr The CSS mandate seems to be: it's happening online, so let's study it (using traces only)!2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@dfreelon @syardi @kreissdaniel @ajungherr The research should be: here's what I study, how do I find data? Now: here's data, here's paper.
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Replying to @zeynep
@dfreelon@syardi@kreissdaniel@ajungherr And I say this while thinking big data could be powerful in the hands of substantive researchers.0 replies 1 retweet 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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