{"id":11295,"date":"2016-02-08T10:46:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T15:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/beta\/?p=11295"},"modified":"2024-12-11T01:06:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T01:06:52","slug":"introducing-big-data-society-journal-special-theme-social-media-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/beta\/2016\/02\/08\/introducing-big-data-society-journal-special-theme-social-media-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the ‘Big Data & Society’ Journal Special Theme on ‘Social Media & Society’"},"content":{"rendered":"

With faster computers and cheaper storage, bigger data sets are becoming abundant. Social media is a key source of big data in the form of user and system generated content and interactions. What do we do with all of the social data and how do we make sense of it? How does the use of social media platforms and the data that they generate change us, our organizations, and our society? What are the inherent challenges and issues associated with working with social media data?\u00a0<\/span>These are some of the questions we set out to answer in a new on-going special theme on\u00a0Social Media & Society\u00a0in Big Data & Society\u00a0(BD&S), an open access\u00a0journal published by SAGE.<\/p>\n

\"SocialThis special theme is built around research\u00a0presented at the International Conference on Social Media & Society<\/a> (#SMSociety), \u00a0an annual interdisciplinary academic conference\u00a0organized by the Social Media Lab<\/a> at Toronto Metropolitan University. \u00a0The Conference <\/span>features both quantitative and qualitative interdisciplinary works related to the broad theme of \u2018Social Media & Society\u2019. <\/span>The first set of papers, published under this theme and being announced here, came from the 2014 Conference (Toronto, Canada, September 27-28).<\/p>\n

This special theme is unique in a number of ways. First, it includes works that specifically focus on the intersection of big data and social media research. Second, papers in this theme take a user-centric perspective to studying big data practices. They do this by examining how or why different user groups rely on social media and in turn contribute to the rapid growth of user-generated big data. Finally, this special theme presents studies that take a more granular look at \u2018big\u2019 data through careful sampling and the application of both quantitative and qualitative methods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You can access the full text of papers in this special theme\u00a0of Big Data & society at:\u00a0http:\/\/bds.sagepub.com\/content\/social-media-society. If you have any question or have a manuscript related to the broad theme of \u2018Social Media & Society\u2019 and big data, please contact Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd, the lead editor for\u00a0the BD&S special theme issue.<\/p>\n

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