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Competing Twitter hashtags reflect divided response to Paris attacks

By on February 1, 2016 in Big Data, Social Movements, Twitter

On Friday night, November 13, I had just left a movie theater near my home in Toulouse, France, when I received an e-mail from a friend asking me if I was OK. Curious, I went on Twitter and immediately saw reports from French news agencies that there had been a series of attacks across Paris. […]

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5 reasons why online Big Data is Bad Data for researching social movements

By on February 1, 2016 in Academia, Big Data, Digital Activism, Digital Divide, Facebook, Social Movements, Sociology, Twitter, Uncategorized

I know, I know, it’s digital blasphemy to say that using Internet data is a terrible way to study social movements. What about all of those Twitter and Facebook revolutions of the Arab Spring? And Occupy Wall Street? #Ferguson and #BlackLivesMatter spread like wildfire, for God’s sake. You may think that I’m a luddite who […]

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