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Computational Research in the Post-API Age
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On April 4, 2018, the post-API age reached a milestone. On that day, Facebook closed access to its Pages API, which had allowed researchers to extract posts, comments, and associated metadata from ...
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“A current example includes Facebook's recent closure of its Pages API, which impedes the legal and technical means of content extraction for research (Freelon, 2018).”
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“In the early 2010s, many companies shared generous amounts of data with researchers. This enabled entirely new forms of scholarly research, and social scientists and researchers inside industry frequently collaborated with each other and presented their work at conferences. In more recent years, data-sharing practices at most large social media companies have been discontinued (77).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Freelon, D.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Corresponding author
- Freelon, Deen
- ORCID
- Freelon, Deen
- Venue
- Political Communication
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2018-10-02
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 665-668
- ISSN
- 1058-4609 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-7675
- OpenAlex
- W2898441677
- Cited by
- 336
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 42 · 2025: 42 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 66 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 37 · 2020: 66 · 2019: 17
- FWCI
- 110.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Political Communication (publishedVersion)
- SocArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
- OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
- SocArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › General Social Sciences › Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Keywords
- computational social science, research data access
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