Epistemology, methods and theories of communication in the Big Data Era: a critical panorama of social media research

This paper proposes a critical reflection on the epistemological, methodological and theoretical implications of the researches based on Big Data – especially on social media data – for the scientific field of communication. From an epistemological point of view, it reveals the unsustainability of a...

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Main Author: Soares, Ana Thereza Nogueira (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.33(2018).2912
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:journals.uminho.pt:article/1060