Big Data and the brave new world of social media research

The recent Facebook study about emotional contagion has generated a high-profile debate about the ethical and social issues in Big Data research. These issues are not unprecedented, but the debate highlighted that, in focusing on research ethics and the legal issues about this type of research, an i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ralph Schroeder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-12-01
Series:Big Data & Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951714563194