What Are the Stakes in Doing Critical Research on Social Media Platforms?
One of the key challenges facing social media studies is the capacity to undertake independent, critical research. As the field of social media is massively dominated by corporate players with a vested interest in both privatizing social data and developing proprietary social analytical tools, it is...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Social Media + Society |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305115591178 |
| Summary: | One of the key challenges facing social media studies is the capacity to undertake independent, critical research. As the field of social media is massively dominated by corporate players with a vested interest in both privatizing social data and developing proprietary social analytical tools, it is now crucial to advocate for a politics of public social media research. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-3051 |