Methods for Analyzing Social Media

Klaus Bredl, Klaus Bredl, Julia Hünniger, Jakob Linaa Jensen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781351558396
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Media Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Social media is becoming increasingly attractive for users. It is a fast way to communicate ideas and a key source of information. It is therefore one of the most influential mediums of communication of our time and an important area for audience research. The growth of social media invites many new questions such as: How can we analyze social media? Can we use traditional audience research methods and apply them to online content? Which new research strategies have been developed? Which ethical research issues and controversies do we have to pay attention to? This book focuses on research strategies and methods for analyzing social media and will be of interest to researchers and practitioners using social media, as well as those wanting to keep up to date with the subject. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Technology in Human Services.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgement
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• 1. Methods for Analyzing Social Media: Introduction
• 2. The Open Laboratory: Limits and Possibilities of Using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube as a Research Data Source
• 3. Quantitative Approaches to Comparing Communication Patterns on Twitter
• 4. Communities of Communication: Making Sense of the “Social” in Social Media
• 5. Talking of Many Things: Using Topical Networks to Study Discussions in Social Media
• 6. Researching Communicative Practice: Web Archiving in Qualitative Social Media Research
• 7. Social Navigation on the Internet: A Framework for the Analysis of Communication Processes
• 8. Employing Creative Research Methods with Tweens in Estonia and Sweden: Reflections on a Case Study of Identity Construction on Social Networking Sites
• 9. Social Media Use in the Bronx: New Research and Innovations in the Study of YouTube’s Digital Neighborhood
• 10. Digital Media Stories Through Multimodal Analysis: A Case Study of Erahoneybee’s Song About a Child Welfare Agency
• 11. Mark My Words: The Design of an Innovative Methodology to Detect and Analyze Interpersonal Health Conversations in Web and Social Media
• Index