Big Data and the brave new world of social media research

Big Data and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Schroeder, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Data; epistemology; privacy; research ethics; social networking sites; social science

Indexed keywords

EID: 85074193520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20539517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2053951714563194     Document Type: Article

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