How to Study YouTube or TikTok Videos
Researchers can easily access user-generated public videos. See this multidisciplinary collection of open access articles about quantitative and qualitative approaches to collecting and analyzing videos from YouTube or TikTok.
How to study #hashtags
Hashtags offer online researchers ways to identify popular topics, trace viral messages, and locate influential thought leaders. Learn more about how researchers use hashtags with this multidisciplinary collection of open access articles.
Collect Data on Social Media
From the moment social media platforms began to welcome user-generated content, researchers have looked for ways to study it. Learn more with open-access articles about social media platforms.
What’s next for #AcademicTwitter?
Listen to this conversation with Dr. Stu Shulman for discussion of implications of current developments for academics.
Collecting Data Online in Research with Children
How can you conduct online research with children and youth? Here are some open-access examples.
Video interview: Zizi Papacharissi, Editor of journal Social Media + Society on research relevance
What does Dr. Papacharissi, Editor of the Social Media + Society journal, have to say about research relevance?
Share Your Research: Blog and/or Social Media
Academic blogging- what is it and how can it be a part of your publication strategy?
“Deep Surfing”: And, Behold, at Last, the Mighty Immersion Journal—Part 4 of 4
More from Robert Kozinets about creating an immersion journal for your netnography project .
Time, Data, Humanity, and the Doing of Netnography—Part 3 of 4 posts
Read part 3 of a substantive series of posts about netnography from Robert Kozinets.
Reflections on researcher positionality when applying digital research methods
Two researchers discuss negotiations in regard to their positionality in online research.
Post-field and Post-participation: The Post-confusing way to do Social Media Ethnography—Part 2 of 4 posts
In part 2, Robert Kozinets continues to give practical suggestions for research with netnography!
SAGE Concept Grants: Feedback for applicants
The 2020 SAGE Ocean Concept Grant program drew over 140 applications from all over the world. In this blog post, we’re giving you an insight into our judging criteria and sharing the most common reasons why applications did not progress further, to serve as feedback for this year’s applicants and guidance for future applicants.
Devoted users: EU elections and gamification on Twitter
Our study, whose preliminary results we recently presented at the 2019 SISP (Italian Political Science Association) Conference, examines the visibility of the tweets posted by Italian political leaders during the last EU Elections campaign. We show how crowd-sourced and spontaneous political action, triggered by a social media game, can take an almost social bot-like nature and significantly boost the visibility of tweets by political leaders during a major political event.
How to take a social media sabbatical as an academic
Social media can be beneficial or distracting. Need a break?
Social Media for Book Promotion
Mentor-in-Residence Mark Carrigan offers suggestions about promoting your books.
Book review: The code: Silicon Valley and the remaking of America by Margaret O’Mara
In The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, Margaret O’Mara provides a new account of the region’s evolution that brings the US government into the story. The book offers a compelling narrative that tracks the key players and events that have underpinned Silicon Valley’s tremendous, but messy, rise, writes Robyn Klingler-Vidra, while also underscoring the gender imbalance and casual misogyny that has been a longstanding characteristic of its culture.
Interning at SAGE Ocean: My experience
This summer we've had the pleasure of welcoming four Masters students from UK universities to work with the SAGE Ocean team. All four students have been quite incredible, and have managed to produce a variety of outputs and substantially contribute to our work. In this blog post, they share testimonials of their time in the team.
Social scientists working with LinkedIn data
Today, researchers are using LinkedIn data in a variety of ways: to find and recruit participants for research and experiments (Using Facebook and LinkedIn to Recruit Nurses for an Online Survey), to analyze how the features of this network affect people’s behavior and identity or how data is used for hiring and recruiting purposes, or most often to enrich other data sources with publicly available information from selected LinkedIn profiles (Examining the Career Trajectories of Nonprofit Executive Leaders, The Tech Industry Meets Presidential Politics: Explaining the Democratic Party’s Technological Advantage in Electoral Campaigning).