01 Introduction to the Handbook of Social Media Research Methods: Goals, Challenges and Innovations
SECTION ONE: CONCEPTUALISING & DESIGNING SOCIAL MEDIA RESEARCH
Lori McCay-Peet and Anabel Quan-Haase
02 What is social media and what questions can social media research help us answer? Rob Kitchin
03 Big Data - Hype or Revolution? Anabel Quan-Haase and Lori McCay-Peet
04 Building interdisciplinary social media research teams: Motivations, challenges, and policy frameworks Kelsey Beninger
05 Social media users’ views on the ethics of social media research Shuzhe Yang, Anabel Quan-Haase, Andrew Nevin and Yimin Chen
06 The Role of Online Reputation Management, Trolling, and Personality Traits in the Crafting of the Virtual Self on Social Media Luke Soan
07 Social Science ‘lite’? Deriving Demographic Proxies from Twitter
SECTION TWO: COLLECTION & STORAGE
Philipp Mayr & Katrin Weller
08 Think before you collect: Setting up a data collection approach for social media studies David M. Brown, Adriana Soto-Corominas, Juan Luis Suárez & Javier de la Rosa
09 The Social Media Data Processing Pipeline Dietmar Janetzko
10 The Role of APIs in Data Sampling from Social Media Alex Voss, Ilia Lvov and Sara Day Thomson
11 Data Storage, Curation and Preservation Janet Salmons
12 Using Social Media in Data Collection: Designing Studies with the Qualitative E-Research Framework
SECTION THREE: QUALITATIVE APPROACHES TO SOCIAL MEDIA DATA
Guillaume Latzko-Toth, Claudine Bonneau & Mélanie Millette
13 Small Data, Thick Data: Thickening Strategies for Trace-Based Social Media Research Martin Hand
14 Visuality in Social Media: researching images, circulations and practices Diane Rasmussen Pennington
15 Coding of non-text data Bonnie Stewart
16 Twitter as method: Using Twitter as a tool to conduct research Alexandra Georgakopoulou
17 Small stories research: a narrative paradigm for the analysis of social media
SECTION FOUR: QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO SOCIAL MEDIA DATA
Olga Buchel & Diane Rasmussen Pennington
18 Geospatial Analysis Shadi Ghajar-Khosravi and Mark Chignell
19 Pragmatics of Network Centrality Niels Buus Lassen Lisbeth La Cour and Ravi Vatrapu
20 Predictive Analytics with Social Media Data Victoria L. Rubin
21 Deception Detection and Rumor Debunking for Social Media
SECTION FIVE: DIVERSE APPROACHES TO SOCIAL MEDIA DATA
Nadav Hochman
22 From Site-specificity to Hyper-locality: Performances of Place in Social Media Frauke Zeller
23 Analysing social media data and other data sources: A methodological overview Jack Jamieson and Jeffrey Boase
24 Listening to social rhythms: Exploring logged interactional data through sonification Bernhard Klein & Ulf-Dietrich Reips
25 Innovative social location-aware services for mobile phones
SECTION SIX: RESEARCH & ANALYTICAL TOOLS
Jeffrey Morgan
26 COSMOS: The Collaborative On-Line Social Media Observatory Ulf-Dietrich Reips and Pablo Garaizar
27 Social Lab: An “Open Source Facebook” Simon Hegelich
28 R for Social Media Analysis Kalina Bontcheva
29 GATE: An Open-Source NLP Toolkit for Mining Social Media Anatoliy Gruzd , Philip Mai and Andrea Kampen
30 A how-to for using Netlytic to collect and analyze social media data: A case study of the use of Twitter during the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine Daniel Angus
31 Theme Detection in Social Media Mike Thelwall
32 Sentiment Analysis
SECTION SEVEN: SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
Dhiraj Murthy
33 The ontology of tweets: Mixed methods approaches to the study of Twitter Linnea Laestadius
34 Instagram Xiao Hu, Chen Qiao & King-wa Fu
35 Weibo Matthew J. Williams and Martin Chorley
36 Foursquare Jessica Vitak
37 Facebook Anatoliy Gruzd and Ben O’Bright
38 Big Data and Political Science: The Case of VKontakte and the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine Luke Sloan and Anabel Quan-Haase
39 A Retrospective on State of the Art Social Media Research Methods: Ethical decisions, big-small data rivalries and the spectre of the 6Vs
