Conference:'Answering social science questions with social media'

Description:

What role can social media research play in the social sciences? What are the questions it can help us to answer? Speakers from a range of backgrounds will talk about their experiences of using social media in their research, providing real examples of use to those interested in seeing how the promises of social media research can be actualised.

The packed event will include keynote presentations from Steven McDermott, Qualitative Analysis and Social Media Lead with HMRC and Suzy Moat, Associate Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School, and examples from eight expert speakers of how social media research can provide insight into research questions in novel ways. It is aimed at social researchers who want to find out more about what this new methodology can offer, and see how the promises of social media research can be actualised.

Our speakers come from a range of backgrounds, including government and academia, presenting examples on topics such as politics and health, with data from Twitter, Facebook, blog sites and other platforms.

Cost:

£115
£95 (for Social Research Association members)

Website and registration:

http://the-sra.org.uk/event-registration/?ee=626

Region:

Greater London

Keywords:

Data Collection, Data Quality and Data Management , Mixed Methods Data Handling and Data Analysis, ICT and Software, Research Skills, Communication and Dissemination, Social media research , Online research

Related publications and presentations:

Data Collection
Data Quality and Data Management
Mixed Methods Data Handling and Data Analysis
ICT and Software
Research Skills, Communication and Dissemination

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