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Dr. Luke Sloan discusses using Twitter in social science research and how best to use social media for research. All social media platforms can be used to conduct social science research, but Twitter is an open site with public data. Sloan discusses the research he has done with Twitter on a UK General Election and on the London Olympic Games.
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Chapter 1: What Sort of Questions Can Twitter Help You Answer?
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Chapter 2: Can Other Social Media be Used in the Social Sciences?
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Chapter 3: What Challenges Does Research with Big Data Pose?
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Chapter 4: Researching the UK General Election Using Twitter
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Chapter 5: Researching the London Olympics Using Twitter Data
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Chapter 6: What is the Future for Social Media Research?
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