The danger of big data: Social media as computational social science

First Monday

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Oboler, Andre ^a   Welsh, Kristopher ^b   Cruz, Lito ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

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