The SAGE handbook of social media research methods / / edited by Luke Sloan and Anabel Quan-Haase

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910156180303321
• Autore: Sloan Luke
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Los Angeles : , : SAGE Reference, , [2017]; �2017
• ISBN: 1-4739-8384-3; 1-78684-254-8; 1-4739-8721-0
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxvii, 679 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Collana: Gale eBooks
• Classificazione: 32.20.04; 32.20.24
• Disciplina: 302.231
• Soggetti: Social media - Research - Methodology; Mass media - Research - Methodology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction to the handbook of social media research methods: goals, challenges and innovations -- Part I: conceptualising & designing social media research -- What is social media and what questions can social media research help us answer? -- Big data -- hype or revolution? -- Building interdisciplinary social media research teams: motivations, challenges, and policy frameworks -- Social media users' views on the ethics of social media research -- Social media users' views on the ethics of social media research -- Social science 'lite'? Deriving demographic proxies from Twitter -- Part II: Collection & storage -- Think before you collect: setting up a data collection approach for social media studies -- Overview -- the social media data processing pipeline -- The role of APIs in Data Sampling from Social Media -- Data Storage, Curation and Preservation -- Using Social Media in Data Collection: Designing Studies with the Qualitative E-Research Framework -- Part III: Qualitative approaches to social media data -- Small data, thick data: thickening strategies for trace-based social media research -- Visuality in social media: researching images, circulations and practices -- Coding of non-text data -- Twitter as ; method: using Twitter as a tool to conduct research -- Small stories research: a narrative paradigm for the analysis of social media -- Part IV: Quantitative approaches to social media data -- Geospatial analysis -- Pragmatics of network centrality -- Predictive analytics with social media data -- Deception detection and rumor debunking for social media -- Part V: Diverse approaches to social media data -- From site-specificity to hyper-locality: performances of place in social media -- Analyzing social media data and other data sources: a methodological overview -- Listening to social rhythms: exploring logged interactional data through sonification -- Innovative social location-aware services for mobile phones -- Part VI: Research and analytical tools -- COSMOS: The Collaborative On-line Social Media Observatory -- Social Lab: an 'open source Facebook' -- R for social media analysis -- GATE: an open-source NLP toolkit for mining social media -- A how-to for using Netlytic to collect and analyze social media data: a case study of the use of Twitter during the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine -- Theme detection in social media -- Sentiment analysis -- Part VII: Social media platforms -- The ontology of tweets: mixed-method approaches to the study of Twitter -- Instagram -- Weibo -- Foursquare -- Facebook as a research tool in the social and computer sciences -- Big data and political science: the case of VKontakte and the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine -- A retrospective on state of the art social media research methods: ethical decisions, big-small data rivalries and the spectre of the 6Vs.
• Sommario/riassunto: The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods offers a step-by-step guide to overcoming the challenges inherent in research projects that deal with 'big and broad data', from the formulation of research questions through to the interpretation of findings. The handbook includes chapters on specific social media platforms such as Twitter, Sina Weibo and Instagram, as well as a series of critical chapters. The holistic approach is organised into the following sections: Conceptualising & Designing Social Media Research Collection & Storage Qualitative Approaches to Social Media Data Quantitative Approaches to Social Media Data Diverse Approaches to Social Media Data Analytical Tools Social Media Platforms This handbook is the single most comprehensive resource for any scholar or graduate student embarking on a social media project.

Reconceptualising Power in Language Policy : Evidence from Comparative Cases / / by Abhimanyu Sharma

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910586633403321
• Autore: Sharma Abhimanyu
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022
• ISBN: 9783031094613; 9783031094606
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2022.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 pages)
• Collana: Language Policy, , 2452-1027 ; ; 30
• Disciplina: 306.449
• Soggetti: Education and state; Language policy; International education; Comparative education; Sociolinguistics; Educational Policy and Politics; Language Policy and Planning; International and Comparative Education; Política lingüística; Poder (Ciències socials); Llibres electrònics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- Part II. European Union, Luxembourg and Wales -- 2. Power and language policies in the EU -- 3. Power and language policies in Luxembourg -- 4. Power and language policies in Wales -- Part III. India, Manipur, and Tamil Nadu -- 5. Power and language policies in India -- 6. Power and language policies in Manipur -- 7. Language Policies in Tamil Nadu -- Part IV. Conclusion -- 8. Conclusions and future prospects.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book aims to expand the theoretical framework of and counter the Eurocentric narratives in language policy research, by comparing policies of EU and India and demonstrating the importance of taking a ; comparative perspective while studying language policies. This book challenges the notion of macro-level power in language policy research and offers evidence that, in democratic frameworks, macro-level power is not absolute. It is not uniform across policy domains, but rather susceptible to pressure, especially in the domains of healthcare and social welfare. This book makes three important contributions to the theory of language policy by: Arguing for the need to reconceptualise macro-level power Proposing ‘Categories of Differentiation’ as a new analytical tool for policy research Demonstrating that socio-political changes are reflected at the textual level This book is of interest to researchers working on language policies and those investigating language related legislation across different policy domains, to practitioners and policymakers in language policy, as well as to graduate students conducting comparative policy research. “This is a much valued and timely book making a strong case for the subject of language policy across Europe and India. The large comparative case studies of four distinctive states across Europe and India in a simple descriptive mode makes the reading of this book enjoyable. The domains of administration, legislation, healthcare and social welfare are undoubtedly novel ways to deal within the concept of language policy in a wider sense. The author uses discourse analysis to bring out the relationship between intention, explanation and interpretation of a phenomenon like language policy and its implementation. The social diversity as expressed in linguistic mapping is well captured in the novel idea of “categories of differentiation” bothas a normative methodological tool and its historical-empirical manifestation.” — Asha Sarangi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.