Limits and Possibilities of Using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube as a Research Data Source

What is it about?

This article presents an up-to-date literature review that frames available studies using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube as data sources, in the perspective of traditional approaches for social scientists: ethnographical, statistical, and computational.

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Why is it important?

The article highlight strengths and weaknesses of different research approaches in the context of the possibilities offered by the different platforms.