Distilling Digital Traces: Computational Social Science Approaches to Studying the Internet  

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Welser, Howard T. ; Smith, Marc ; Fisher, Danyel ; Gleave, Eric

Jenis: Article from Books - Reference
Dalam koleksi: The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, page 116-140.
Topik: Digital Traces; Computational Social Science; Contening with The Deluge of Data; From Data Source to Datasets; Methods for Systematic Description

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: 301.150.1 SAG 7 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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System for computer-mediated interation provide unprecedented research opportunities for social scientists. This scale and complexity of these data also pose practical and theoretical challenges regarding data management, aggregation, analysis, and inference. This chapter discusses these challenges and describes a series of techniques that help researchers move from repositories of interaction logs, through large-scale databases, to visual and quantitative answers to theoretically motivated questions. We describe an integrated framework for generating theoretically motivated research based on the traditions of collective action, social networks, and interactionist sociologies. At the practical level of data collection, processing, and presentation, we describe the use of relational databases, standard data structures, and strategies that facilitate moving data across different research platforms and tools. Drawing on data from the Netscan project, we illustrate techniques for measuring and visualizing hierarchies, distributions, and relationships extracted from Usenet, a large-scale social software system that supports the wxchange of messages among a global population. We emphasize systematic description via visualization and statistical and network analysis to illustrate notable features of this space. We conclude by discussing new opportunities and challenges facing the computational social science approach to studying the internet.

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