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AMERICAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST
卷 61, 期 7, 页码 741-756出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0002764217717559
关键词
digital divide; representativeness; social media; Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn; Instagram; Pinterest; Google
Sociological studies show that Internet access, skills, uses, and outcomes vary between different population segments. However, we lack differentiated statistical evidence of the social characteristics of users of distinct social media platforms. We address this issue using a representative survey of Great Britain and investigate the social characteristics of six major social media platforms. We find that age and socioeconomic status are driving forces of severalbut not allof these platforms. The findings suggest that no social media platform is representative of the general population. The unrepresentativeness has major implications for research that uses social media as a data source. Social media data cannot be used to generalize to any population other than themselves.
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