Using social media in your research
Experts explore the practicalities of observing human behavior through Facebook and Twitter.
By Melissa Lee Phillips
Print version: page 32
https://www.apa.org/gradpsych/2011/11/social-media
Social Media Research, Human Behavior, and Sustainable Society
Sustainability 2017, 9(3), 384.
10,042 social media publications involved 221 ISI-defined subject categories.
The five most common categories were
Communication (1439 papers; 14.33% of the total publications),
Sociology (829; 8.26%),
Public, Environment & Occupational Health (735; 7.32%),
Business (627; 6.24%), and
Psychology, Multidisciplinary (575; 5.73%).
These 10,042 social media articles that were published during 2008–2014 appeared in 2360 ISI-indexed journals.
Computers in Human Behavior ranked first and published 236 articles on social media.
New Media & Society published the second most articles (145), f
Public Relations Review (133),
Information Communication & Society (130),
The Journal of Medical Internet Research (107),
Media Culture & Society (92),
Comunicar (85),
The Journal of Business Ethics (83),
American Behavioral Scientist (74), and
Computers & Education (55).
Social media articles that were published in these journals received, on average, 6.61 citations.
From 2008 to 2014, the annual publications of social media increased from 716 to 2509, with an average annual growth rate of more than 20%.
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/3/384/htm
Using Social Media to Effectively Promote Your Research
Jul 20, 2019
https://www.enago.com/academy/using-social-media-to-effectively-promote-your-research/
Using Twitter as a data source: an overview of social media research tools (2019).
This post builds upon the 2015, and 2017 editions of this post, captures key trends and events which are shaping social media research for social scientists and provides a collection of research methods and tools for the analysis of social media data.
Video - Social Media for Researchers
Researchers can use social media to present their work, exchange ideas and results, and to meet like-minded peers. In this webinar recording, Dr. Christian DeFeo Product Marketing Manager of Mendeley – Social explains the history of social networking for researchers, the benefits of each platform type and how you can use them to your advantage. The focus is on understanding of why researchers should network online, and how they can make the best use of social media.
