Snurblog has been summarizing talks at the Social Media and Society conference in London, starting with this one. "As a community, we haven't been helped by the hype around 'big data' that social media data have come to be caught up in. Social media data have been falsely seen as a telescope with which we can observe large-scale patterns, but this view fails to recognise that these data are not naturally occurring: they are not 'raw' data, but are both framed by and framing other contexts. We must work to better understand these contexts – and one key such context is the social media platforms in which the data are being produced." So far we also have big social data research, the U.S. election on Twitter, and drug use on social media.
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