Bigger sociological imaginations: framing big social data theory and methods

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 583-594

  Halavais, Alexander ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

big data; data science; social theory; sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928754901     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1008543     Document Type: Article

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