Sage Research Methods Video: Data Science, Big Data Analytics, and Digital Methods - Getting and Analyzing Twitter Data for Academic Research

Name: Getting and Analyzing Twitter Data for Academic Research
Uploaded: 2021-12-21
Duration: 17 min 59 s
Description: Christopher Barrie, PhD, Lecturer in Computational Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, discusses collection and analysis of Twitter data for academic research, including determining how much people are tweeting, analyzing tweet content, and determining who follows whom.

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  Barrie, C. (Academic). (2022). Getting and analyzing Twitter data for academic research [Video]. Sage Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529602289
  
  Barrie, Christopher. "Getting and Analyzing Twitter Data for Academic Research." In Sage Video. : SAGE Publications, Ltd., 2022. Video, 00:17:59. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529602289.
  
  Barrie, C., 2022. Getting and Analyzing Twitter Data for Academic Research, Sage Video. [Streaming Video] London: Sage Publications Ltd. Available at: <https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529602289 & gt; [Accessed 27 Mar 2023].
  
  Barrie, Christopher. Getting and Analyzing Twitter Data for Academic Research. Online video clip. SAGE Video. London: SAGE Publications, Ltd., 21 Dec 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529602289. 27 Mar 2023.
  
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Christopher Barrie, PhD, Lecturer in Computational Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, discusses collection and analysis of Twitter data for academic research, including determining how much people are tweeting, analyzing tweet content, and determining who follows whom.

Chapter 1: Christopher Barrie Discusses Internet Research Using Twitter Data
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Chapter 2: Christopher Barrie Discusses Determining How Much People Are Tweeting
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Chapter 3: Christopher Barrie Discusses Determining Tweet Content
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Chapter 4: Christopher Barrie Discusses Determining Who Follows Whom on Twitter
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Chapter 5: Christopher Barrie Shares Key Takeaways on Collecting Twitter Data
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Product: Sage Research Methods Video: Data Science, Big Data Analytics, and Digital Methods
Type of Content: Tutorial
Title: Getting and Analyzing Twitter Data for Academic Research
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Ltd.
- Publication year: 2022
- Online pub date: December 21, 2021
Discipline: Communication and Media Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Social Policy and Public Policy, Sociology, Technology, Computer Science, Public Health
Methods: Data science, Social media research, Social media analytics, Data collection skills, Application programming interfaces
Duration: 00:17:59
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529602289
Keywords: algorithms, automation, data analysis, data collection, data mining, internet research, natural language processing, Social media, text analysis, Twitter
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Academic: Christopher Barrie

Online ISBN:9781529602289

Copyright: ©SAGE Publications Ltd., 2022

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Barrie, C., & Ho, J.C., (2021).academictwitteR. https://github.com/cjbarrie/academictwitteR

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Barrie, C., Ho, J.C., Chan, C., & Rico, N., (2021).academictwitteR: Twitter Academic Research Product Track. https://cran.r-project.org/package=academictwitteR

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Academic Research access. Twitter API, https://developer.twitter.com/en/products/twitter-api/academic-research

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Barrie, C., (2022).SAGE Video Tutorial Materials. https://github.com/cjbarrie/sage_tutorial

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Barrie, C., Fleming, T., & Rowan, S., (2021).Does climate protest influence political speech?.

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Barrie, C., & Frey, A., (2021).Faces in the crowd: Twitter as alternative to protest surveys. PLoS ONE, 16(11),1-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259972

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Cram, L., & Llewellyn, C., (2016).If Twitter is the medium of the underdog, are the ‘reluctant Remainers’ poised to bite?. London School of Economics, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/06/22/twitter-brexit-remainers-poised-to-bite/

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Münch, F.V., Thies, B., Puschmann, C., & Bruns, A., (2021).Walking Through Twitter: Sampling a Language-Based Follow Network of Influential Twitter Accounts. Social Media + Society, 7(1),1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305120984475

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Sigel, A., & Badaan, V., (2020).#No2Sectarianism: Experimental Approaches to Reducing Sectarian Hate Speech Online. American Political Science Review, 114(3),837-855. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003055420000283

Further Reading

Viglione, G., (2020).Has Twitter just had its saddest fortnight ever?. Nature, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01818-3

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Chapter 1: Christopher Barrie Discusses Internet Research Using Twitter Data

Chapter 2: Christopher Barrie Discusses Determining How Much People Are Tweeting

Chapter 3: Christopher Barrie Discusses Determining Tweet Content

Chapter 4: Christopher Barrie Discusses Determining Who Follows Whom on Twitter

Chapter 5: Christopher Barrie Shares Key Takeaways on Collecting Twitter Data

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Chapter 1: Christopher Barrie Discusses Internet Research Using Twitter Data

Chapter 2: Christopher Barrie Discusses Determining How Much People Are Tweeting

Chapter 3: Christopher Barrie Discusses Determining Tweet Content

Chapter 4: Christopher Barrie Discusses Determining Who Follows Whom on Twitter

Chapter 5: Christopher Barrie Shares Key Takeaways on Collecting Twitter Data

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