What is it about?

This article explicates the theoretical argument that social media data can meet the criteria for representing instantiations of theoretical concepts.

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Why is it important?

This article represents a well-reasoned stance explaining why it is appropriate to use social media data to make statements about broader human behavior.

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We've looked for an article to cite that would argue this point for us. In the end, we decided to write that article ourselves, and we hope you will agree that it is useful for bolstering claims made with supporting social media data.

Tony Love
University of Kentucky

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This page is a summary of: Generalizing from social media data: a formal theory approach, Information Communication & Society, December 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2018.1555610.
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