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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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