www.britsoc.co.uk New Methodological Approaches to Research Using Twitter Ethics Case Study | 4BSA Ethics Case Study | 4 2 New Methodological Approaches to Research Using Twitter New Methodological Approaches to Research Using Twitter Describe the rationale, study aims and the relevant research questions of your study. This study aims to develop a new methodological approach to research on social media, specifically the Twitter micro-blogging service. Whilst there is already considerable research interest in the ‘influence’ of social media, studies of Twitter have – to date – only considered the extent and circulation of ‘retweets’ (where users pass on an original post to their own followers) as the measure of ‘influence’. The aim of the research proposed here is to exten

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