期刊
ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
卷 659, 期 1, 页码 63-76出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0002716215570866
关键词
big data; Internet skills; digital inequality; social network sites; sampling frame; biased sample; sampling
资金
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Robert and Kaye Hiatt Fund
This article discusses methodological challenges of using big data that rely on specific sites and services as their sampling frames, focusing on social network sites in particular. It draws on survey data to show that people do not select into the use of such sites randomly. Instead, use is biased in certain ways yielding samples that limit the generalizability of findings. Results show that age, gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, online experiences, and Internet skills all influence the social network sites people use and thus where traces of their behavior show up. This has implications for the types of conclusions one can draw from data derived from users of specific sites. The article ends by noting how big data studies can address the shortcomings that result from biased sampling frames.
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