Using APIs for Data Collection on Social Media

This article discusses how social media research may benefit from social media companies making data available to researchers through their application programming interfaces (APIs). An API is a back-end interface through which third-party developers may connect new add-ons to an existing service. T...

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Published in:	The Information society Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 256 - 265
Main Authors:	Lomborg, Stine, Bechmann, Anja
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia, PA Routledge 08.08.2014 Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis LLC
Subjects:	APIs Application programming interface Application programming interfaces Data collection data quality Ethics Exact sciences and technology Information and communication sciences Information science. Documentation Library and information science. General aspects Mass Media Methodological Problems methodology Methodology (Data Collection) Programming (Broadcast) research ethics Research methodology Research methods Sciences and techniques of general use Social media Social networks Social Science Research Social Services Studies Methodology Use APIs Data Research research ethics data collection Ethics data quality Quality Mass media social media Data gathering
ISSN:	0197-2243, 1087-6537
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