How to construct search queries to gather social media texts /

Projects analysing social media texts need a method to identify a relevant sample to analyse. A hashtag campaign project, for example, might analyse all tweets containing the hashtag in question (e.g., #TransLivesMatter), and an investigation of a group of people/organisations might investigate all...

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Main Author:	Thelwall, Mike (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : SAGE Publications, Ltd., 2022.
Series:	SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online
Subjects:	Social media > Research > Methodology. Social media and society. Médias sociaux > Recherche > Méthodologie. Médias sociaux et société. Social media and society
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	Projects analysing social media texts need a method to identify a relevant sample to analyse. A hashtag campaign project, for example, might analyse all tweets containing the hashtag in question (e.g., #TransLivesMatter), and an investigation of a group of people/organisations might investigate all posts from or to them (e.g., all Nigerian politicians' tweets). In contrast, many projects investigate a topic on social media and need to devise a method to identify relevant posts. This How-to Guide illustrates the issues involved with identifying topic-relevant posts through five case studies on Twitter and YouTube, contrasting how each one identified relevant texts to analyse. Two key goals are.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9781529608205 1529608201