Where Have All the Data Gone? A Critical Reflection on Academic Digital Research in the Post-API Age
In the wake of the 2018 Facebook–Cambridge Analytica scandal, social media companies began restricting academic researchers’ access to the easiest, most reliable means of systematic data collection via their application programming interfaces (APIs). Although these restrictions have been decried wid...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2021-01-01
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| Series: | Social Media + Society |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305121988929 |