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Cassie Phillips is a freelance technology writer who also dabbles in social media. She’s a firm believer that everyone can find a use for social media whether to make friends or conduct a research experiment. Like technology, she finds social media is just another tool to add to one’s arsenal. @securethoughtsc The idea of combining social media and research at first might be at odds with one another, but they actually complement one another. Research involves the production, use and consumption of knowledge. Before social, scientists and researchers disseminated information via conferences, journals, peer reviews and publication. What brings all of these events together is collaboration. This is where the true benefits of social become apparent. Finding Information You probably already have a system in place to find journals and articles that will suit your research. This can include using information portals, attending meetings and even focusing on certain peer-reviewed journals. Wh...

Blog originally published on 22nd November 2016 on London School of Economics blog-site   http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/11/22/the-big-data-rich-and-the-big-data-poor-the-new-digital-divide-raises-questions-about-future-academic-research/   Data is being created faster than ever before. However, as  Kate Metzler  explains, limited access to this big data is creating a digital divide between large companies and the broader scholarly community. To compound this problem, there is also a big data analysis skills gap that further hinders the progress of social science. Without access to these datasets or the expertise to analyse them, research is confronted with a replication crisis and is vulnerable to commercial motivations. “Data is the new oil.” Clive Humby, mathematician and architect of Tesco’s Clubcard, is credited with saying this first in 2006, and it’s been  repeated numerous times  in the last decade. The comparison between data an...

Dr. Yeran Sun is a postdoctoral researcher at Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow, UK. His research interests include big data and urban studies, social media research and sentiment analysis, transport and social inequality, transport and public health. Social media data offers crowd-sourced data to social science research. In particular, GPS enable-devices, such as smart phones, allow social media users to share their real-time locations in social media platforms. In my presentation, Flickr geo-tagged photos are used to identify popular tour attractions in London. ‘Geo-tagged’ photos and tweets of Flickr, Instagram and Twitter users tell us the footprints and mobility of users. Compared to Instagram and Twitter, Flickr has a large portion of tourists. Geo-tagged photos from Flickr users are used as crowed-sourced data in recent tourism research. However, the population of geo-tagged photos are not proportional to the population of real tourists’ footprints. Therefore, visits...

Gill Mooney is a doctoral researcher, studying at the University of Leeds. Her research interests are currently focused on social class and social media. She completed her undergraduate degree as a mature student in sociology at the University of Hull, and prior to this was employed as a project co-ordinator for a young people’s sexual health charity in Hull. @gillmooney My research is concerned with the ways in which we know, understand and produce social class in the digital environment of the social networking site (SNS), Facebook. The research will provide valuable insights into how social networking is changing the ways we may relate to one another both online and offline, as well as the effect it might be having on broader understandings of social class. Facebook is the topic of the research, the site in which parts of it take place, and a tool for facilitating its logistics and practicalities. I am using it for recruitment, communication with research participants, and using con...

Phillip Brooker is a research associate at the University of Bath (UK) working in social media analytics, with a particular interest in the exploration of research methodologies to support the emerging field. Phillip is a member of the Chorus team; a Twitter data collection and visualisation suite (www.chorusanalytics.co.uk). He currently works on CuRAtOR (Challenging online feaR And OtheRing), an interdisciplinary project focusing on how “cultures of fear” are propagated through online “othering”. @Chorus_Team NSMNSS events have always been good value for me. I haven't quite been a part of the network since it kicked off, but I certainly have tried to be an 'active member' for the years that I have been involved with it. So when Curtis Jessop emailed me to ask if I'd give a talk on the practicalities of using Chorus to do social media analytics research, I jumped on it. Moreso than telling people about our software and what we've used it to do, these events are al...