Using social media data for social science research
One of the main trend in social science research is the use of social media
data either for studying communities in the participative web, or for the
analysis of the social behaviour in context like public opinion formation,
networked audiences, social television. Handling this kind of data need two
different competencies: a sociological one for the research design and a
technical one for collecting, archiving and analyzing this kind of data.
This tutorial will describe how to design a social research based on social
media data, how to collect and analyze this kind of data and how to
interpret the results. For this reason the tutorial will also illustrate a
set of case studies in community analysis, social media and political
opinion, social media and television consumption.