Twitter and Social Life: Tales from the Frontline of Social Media Research
The phenomenal growth of Web-based social media data provokes great interest and activity from researchers across a range of disciplines.

For most, if not all, the lure of these data is that they offer important insights into the social world: digital traces of the things that people say and do in everyday life, at scale, in real time and over time.However, in the emergent field of social media analysis the challenges of working with these data are becoming increasingly apparent.

This lecture outlines the disciplinary, methodological and ethical challenges of working with social media data and explores some of the routes through which these might be addressed.

Registration is essential. Please reserve your place by emailing: events@gtc.ox.ac.uk.
Date: 25 January 2016, 18:00 (Monday, 2nd week, Hilary 2016)
Venue: Green Templeton College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HG
Venue Details: E P Abraham Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Professor Susan Halford (University of Southampton)
Organiser contact email address: events@gtc.ox.ac.uk
Part of: The 2016 Green Templeton College Lecture Series: Living by numbers: Big data and society
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Booking required?: Required
Booking email: events@gtc.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Public
Editors: Sue Wilson, Bailey Jones