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Big Questions for Social Media Big Data: Representativeness, Validity and Other Methodological Pitfalls
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Large-scale databases of human activity in social media have captured scientific and policy attention, producing a flood of research and discussion. This paper considers methodological and conceptual challenges for this emergent field, with special attention to the validity and representativeness of social media big data analyses. Persistent issues include the over-emphasis of a single platform, Twitter, sampling biases arising from selection by hashtags, and vague and unrepresentative sampling frames. The socio-cultural complexity of user behavior aimed at algorithmic invisibility (such as subtweeting, mock-retweeting, use of “screen captures” for text, etc.) further complicate interpretation of big data social media. Other challenges include accounting for field effects, i.e. broadly consequential events that do not diffuse only through the network under study but affect the whole society. The application of network methods from other fields to the study of human social activity may not always be appropriate. The paper concludes with a call to action on practical steps to improve our analytic capacity in this promising, rapidly-growing field.
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“Social data opens unprecedented opportunities to answer significant questions about society, policies, and health, being recognized as one core reason behind progress in many areas of computing (e.g., crisis informatics, digital health, computational social science) (Crawford and Finn, 2014; Tufekci, 2014; Yom-Tov, 2016).”
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“The behaviors we observe in online social platforms are partially determined by platform capabilities, which are engineered toward certain goals”
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“The functional peculiarities of social platforms may introduce population (section 3.2) and behavioral biases (section 3.3) by influencing which user demographics are drawn to each platform and the kind of actions they are more likely to perform”
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“Overlooking the impact of norms can impact any social data analysis studying or making assumptions about user behavior”
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“if the data is organized along a certain attribute (e.g., the presence of a keyword or hashtag), and there are multiple independent factors that result in the attribute taking a certain value, analyzing data entries with this value is equivalent to conditioning on it, and may result in spurious patterns of association among these factors (Blyth, 1972; Tufekci, 2014).”
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“Yet, such implications are not always well understood or recognized (Tufekci, 2014; O'Neil, 2016), as many seem to assume that these data, and the frameworks used to handle them, are adequate, often as-is, for the problem at hand, with little or no scrutiny.”
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“Regardless of how large or varied social data are, there are also lingering questions about what can be learned from them about real-world phenomena (online or offline)—which have yet to be rigorously addressed (boyd and Crawford, 2012; Ruths and Pfeffer, 2014; Tufekci, 2014).”
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“A key concern is that research agendas tend to be opportunistically driven by access to data, tools, or ease of analysis (Ruths and Pfeffer, 2014; Tufekci, 2014; Weller and Gorman, 2015); or, as Baeza-Yates (2013) puts it, “we see a lot of data mining for the sake of it.””
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“much research is concentrated on data from a few platforms, most notably Twitter.”
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“Functional biases make conclusions from research studies difficult to generalize or transfer, as each platform exhibits its own structural differences (Tufekci, 2014), which can lead to platform-specific phenomena (Ruths and Pfeffer, 2014) that are often overlooked.”
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“The choice of keywords in keyword-based queries shapes the resulting datasets.”
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“different hashtags used in the same context (e.g., during a political event) may be associated with distinct social, political or cultural frames, and, thus, samples built using them may embed different dimensions of the data (Tufekci, 2014)”
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“Many datasets are built around dependent variables (see section 5.2), deciding to include a user or a piece of content depending on the inclusion of a variable under analysis (Tufekci, 2014); this may result in apparent patterns of association that fail to generalize.”
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“The same mechanism or process may capture different signals across contexts (Tufekci, 2014), but such distinctions are often unintelligible and hard to make in an automated fashion when looking at a system output or at an analysis results in aggregate (Rost et al., 2013; Tufekci, 2014).”
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“For instance, if a study investigates the effectiveness of a particular treatment based on data collected from a specific time period, the findings may not reflect the current healthcare landscape or advancements in medical practices [91].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Tufekci, Z.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
- Published
- 2014-05-16
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 505-514
- ISSN
- 2162-3449 (ISSN-L)
- 2334-0770
- OpenAlex
- W2102861780
- Cited by
- 780
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
- 2026: 52 · 2025: 49 · 2024: 54 · 2023: 60 · 2022: 58 · 2021: 98 · 2020: 73 · 2019: 71 · 2018: 91 · 2017: 72 · 2016: 59 · 2015: 34 · 2014: 9
- FWCI
- 117.22
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- AAAI Publications (The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › General Social Sciences › Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Big Data Technologies and Applications
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
- Keywords
- social media big data, representativeness, validity, sampling bias, Twitter, hashtags, sampling frame, field effect, network analysis, methodological pitfalls
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