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Digital Mixed Content Analysis on Digital Platform Social Data: The Revival of a Research Technique and Its Declination Between Mixed and Digital Methods

Digital Mixed Content Analysis on Digital Platform Social Data: The Revival of a Research Technique and Its Declination Between Mixed and Digital Methods
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Author(s): Gabriella Punziano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 14
Source title: Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Gabriella Punziano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)and Angela Delli Paoli (University of Salerno, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8473-6.ch021

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Abstract

The explosion of platform social data as digital secondary data, collectible through sophisticated and automatized query systems or algorithms, makes it possible to accumulate huge amounts of dense and miscellaneous data. The challenge for social researchers becomes how to extract meaning and not only trends in a quantitative as well as in a qualitative manner. Through the application of a digital mixed content analysis perspective to data analysis, in this contribution, the author will present the potentiality of a hybrid digitalized approach to social content. This perspective should be seen as an applied example of organizing a framework to guide the application of integrated methods of content analysis (quantitative and qualitative) but also integrated objects of analysis (individuals, relationships, and digital actions) on digital platform social data and to address their varied nature.

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