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A Shift to Consider Platform’s Role in Leadership Research
Business and Management INK
July 12, 2023

A Shift to Consider Platform’s Role in Leadership Research

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Watch the Video: What’s Next for #AcademicTwitter?
Insights
November 17, 2022

Watch the Video: What’s Next for #AcademicTwitter?

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Academics Can Easily Depart Twitter While Institutions Remain
Industry
November 17, 2022

Academics Can Easily Depart Twitter While Institutions Remain

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The Future of Academic Twitter After Elon Musk
Insights
November 7, 2022

The Future of Academic Twitter After Elon Musk

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Can Twitter Serve as a Tripwire for Problematic Research?

Can Twitter Serve as a Tripwire for Problematic Research?

Robin Haunschild and Lutz Bornmann discuss their recent findings on how retracted papers were talked about on the social media platform Twitter and how this can be mapped onto the eventual retraction notices of these articles.

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A Tool that Detects the Strength of Hate Speech on Twitter

A Tool that Detects the Strength of Hate Speech on Twitter

A new machine learning tool can detect and classify different strengths of Islamophobic hate speech on Twitter. Bertie Vidgen and Taha Yasseri explain their processes in creating a new tool that detects Islamophobic hate speech on Twitter.

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Academic Morale and Ponzi Schemes

Academic Morale and Ponzi Schemes

The pool of PhDs and postdocs has expanded far more rapidly than the long-term career opportunities in higher education, a situation Charles Ponzi would have recognized- and which Felicity Callard captured with a late-November tweet.

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Celebrating the First 50 Social Science Bites Podcasts

Celebrating the First 50 Social Science Bites Podcasts

Social Science Bites, a series of interviews with leading social scientists, reached a milestone with its 50th podcast — Gary King on Big Data Analysis — in March 2017. This Storify of tweets presents a memorable quote from each of those first 50 interviews.

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Visualizing Social Media Analysis

Visualizing Social Media Analysis

Two of the authors of case study on using Twitter for research describe the ethical challenges of working in a rapidly changing landscape, why it’s important to be able to visualize what your analysis is finding, and why it’s important not to let your analysis be derived from some sort of ‘black box’ that you as the researcher don’t fully understand.

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Use Qualitative Methods In Mining the Data Gold Rush

Use Qualitative Methods In Mining the Data Gold Rush

Mylynn Felt, author of a popular paper on social media and the social sciences, hopes to see a growing blend of established qualitative techniques with newly emerging big data research methods in future social science work.

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Tweet All About It: Using Twitter as an Inexpensive Communication Tool

Tweet All About It: Using Twitter as an Inexpensive Communication Tool

In recent years, social media has changed the way that companies and customers interact. For many companies, social media platforms like Facebook […]

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How Far Can Twitter Reach in Good Survey Research?

How Far Can Twitter Reach in Good Survey Research?

Several public health researchers are intrigued about the possibility of using Twitter for important surveys. Might what’s true forthem also work in the social sciences?

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