Using Twitter data for demographic research
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Using Twitter data for demographic research
BACKGROUND Social media data is a promising source of social science data. However, deriving the demographic characteristics of users and dealing with the nonrandom, nonrepresentative populations from which they are drawn represent challenges for social scientists. OBJECTIVE Given the growing use of social media data in social science research, this paper asks two questions: 1) To what extent a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Demographic Research
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1435-9871
DOI: 10.4054/demres.2017.37.46