Big Data, Digital Media, and Computational Social Science: Possibilities and Perils

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 659, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 6-13

  Shah, Dhavan V ^a   Cappella Ramesh, Joseph N ^b   Neuman, W Russell ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 84927133320     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716215572084     Document Type: Article

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