Save the dates! Upcoming tweet chats
There have been lots of interesting discussions and topics floating around about new social media in the social scienes. What better way to share than to host some tweet chats! See below for the dates and the topic we will cover for each tweet chat. All times are London time. Tuesday 7th October, 2014 at 5pm: Representativeness of online samples Including: What are the geographical inequalities in contributions across different social media platforms? What approaches can we take to address this? How can we weight twitter data? How can we learn about demographics of people on social media, such as age, gender, employment? Monday 17th November at 5pm: Ready, set, research!: accessing funds and data Including: You have an idea for a study, how do you go about funding it? What funding streams are available? What are the regulations/restrictions of accessing different streams? How do we get our hands on big data sets from the likes of Google and Twitter? Tuesday 9th December at 5pm: The ch...