Collecting vertical trace data: Big possibilities and big challenges for multi-method research

Policy and Internet

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 328-339

  Menchen Trevino, Ericka ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

big data; methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886565773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19442866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1944-2866.POI336     Document Type: Article

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