1. Social Media Research Methods.
New Approaches and Open Challenges
Dr. Katrin Weller
katrin.weller@gesis.org, @kwelle,
http://katrinweller.net
Presentation at Advanced Course
“Uses and effects of social media”
HHU Düsseldorf
26.11.2013
8. What is being studied?
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User groups
Events
Audiences
Practices
Information flow
Influence
Opinions and sentiments
Networks
Interactions
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9. How to study social media?
„information
disclosure
and privacy
on Facebook“
„Election
prediction
with Twitter
data“
35. References
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