Big and broad social data and the sociological imagination: A collaborative response

Big Data and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Housley, William ^a   Procter, Rob ^b   Edwards, Adam ^a   Burnap, Peter ^a   Williams, Matthew ^a   Sloan, Luke ^a   Rana, Omer ^a   Morgan, Jeffrey ^a   Voss, Alex ^c   Greenhill, Anita ^d  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Data; co production; collaboration; COSMOS; methods innovation; public sociology; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84967409594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20539517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2053951714545135     Document Type: Article

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