There have been growing concerns regarding the potential impact of social media on
democracy and public debate. While some theorists have claimed that ICTs and social …

Social media is now being used to model mental well-being, and for understanding health
outcomes. Computer scientists are now using quantitative techniques to predict the …

Social media data has become crucial to the advancement of scientific understanding.
However, even though it has become ubiquitous, just collecting large-scale social media …

In social media effects research, the role of specific social media content is understudied, in
part attributable to the fact that communication science previously lacked methods to access …

The article reports on an exploratory, multisite case study of four organizations from the
insurance, banking, telecommunications, and e-commerce industries that implemented big …

Social data in digital form—including user-generated content, expressed or implicit relations
between people, and behavioral traces—are at the core of popular applications and …

While survey research has been at the heart of social science for decades and social
scientific research with digital trace data has been growing rapidly in the last few years, until …

Twitter has become a pervasive tool in election campaigns. Candidates, parties, journalists,
and a steadily increasing share of the public are using Twitter to comment on, interact …

Increasingly abundant trace data provide an opportunity for information systems researchers
to generate new theory. In this research commentary, we draw on the largely “manual” …

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind—a concise, comprehensive, and
practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using …