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How Twitter can be used as a data source for Economic Research: Critical Review from the Selected Economic Studies

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Topic: Organizing and Learning How to OrganizePublished January 13, 2020
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In Brief:

Today online social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook or Youtube shield a big share of the wide-ranging digital communication. Different software tools allow the assembling of information about users and the collection of data about their communication behavior. Mainly, the microblog Twitter provides manifold opportunities in Data Analysis to its functionality and the availability of appropriate software.

A critical review on Using Twitter as a data source: an overview of social media research tools (2019)

by Wasim Ahmed.

Research by Wasim Ahmed(2019) presented an influence on the latest developments in digital methods, methodologies for researching Twitter and other social media platforms. Ahmed gives an overview of the main trends in research methodology, especially how to use Twitter data efficiently in given a multitude of Research methodologies.

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Overview of research methods

In searching for the role of the participants explored in this study, I was considering if the author assumed how personal history may have played an important role in the consequences of the data analysis. While social media usage was documented using some elementary ranked questioning, the author never mention the impact of participants' passed social media interactions. I am left to contemplate how a participant’s associations and reactions might be transformed if they had practiced cyber-bullying or had any other important negative interaction on social media in the years prior to being part of this study.

Conclusion

As Diana Forbes remarks in her research article, “Professional Online Presence and Learning Networks: Educating for Ethical Use of Social Media”,

“In teacher education, uses of social media include the production and sharing of content, discussion, and interaction with content analysis, and collaborative connection with other social media users” (Forbes, 2017).

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