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Small data, thick data : Thickening strategies for trace-based social media research

The algorithmic processing of very large sets of ‘traces’ of user activities collected by digital platforms – so-called ‘Big Data’ – exerts a strong appeal on social media researchers. In the context of a computational turn in social sciences and humanities, is qualitative research based on small samples and corpuses (‘small data’) still relevant? It […] Lire la suite