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  • New social norms revealed by Twitter data?

    It is possible to analyse qualitative social media data to reveal social trends in attitudes.  Twitter recently released an analysis of the content of 4 billion tweets made over the past three years, from users based in the United States. (Source) The fastest growing theme which Twitter users are talking about is ‘creator culture’, with…

  • Censorship on Facebook and Twitter – supporting the dominant ideology?

    Pluralists would argue that social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are just neutral sites through which anyone is free to express their opinion, however, Marxists would suggest that they work with governments and corporations to suppress views which go against the dominant ideology by censoring anything which challenges the mainstream capitalist world view.…

  • Trump’s Tweets…

    Donald Trump’s recent retweets of inflammatory anti-Muslim videos posted by the far right group ‘Britain First’ sparked outrage last week, a row which intensified when Theresa May said it was wrong for him to do so, which in turn prompted a twitter rebuke from Donald Trump in which he said suggested she should be focusing…

  • Revise Sociology on Facebook, Twitter and the Rest…

    Below are some links to the main social media sites I use. If you like this sort of sociology thang, then you might like to follow me by clicking on any, or all of the icons below…. Blog Twitter – @realsociology         Facebook Page         Google Plus     …

  • The Internet as an Object of Content Analysis

    Websites, social media posts and similar virtual documents are all forms of secondary data, and thus amenable to both quantitative and qualitative content analysis.     There are, however, many difficulties in using web sites as sources of content analysis. Following Scott’s (1990) four criteria of assessing the quality of documents, we need consider why…

  • Twitter Users by Occupation and Social Class

    The middle classes and especially those in creative industries are more likely to be on twitter, but finding this out is more difficult than you might think, at least according to some recent research: Who Tweets?: Deriving the Demographic Characteristics of Age, Occupation and Social Class from Twitter User Meta-Data This post is a brief…

  • How Old are Twitter Users?

    ‘Who Tweets’ is an interesting piece of recent research which attempts to determine some basic demographic characteristics of Twitter users, relying on nothing but the data provided by the users themselves in their twitter profiles. Based on a sample of 1470 twitter profiles* in which users clearly stated** their age, the authors of ‘Who Tweets’ found…