Social Network Services as Data Sources and Platforms for e-Researching Social Networks

Ackland, Robert

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Social Network Services as Data Sources and Platforms for e-Researching Social Networks

Date

2009

Authors

Ackland, Robert

Publisher

Sage Publications Inc

Abstract

Social network services such as Facebook provide new data for social science research into, for example, the role of individual characteristics in friendship formation and the diffusion of tastes in social networks. This article assesses the potential of