The SAGE Handbook of Social Science Methodology

By W. Outhwaite, S. Turner. 2007

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Big Questions for Social Media Big Data: Representativeness, Validity and Other Methodological Pitfalls (2014, background): “In sum, hashtag datasets should be seen as self-selected samples with data “missing not at random” and interpreted accordingly (Allison, 2001; Meiman and Freund, 2012; Outhwaite et al, 2007) All this is not to argue that hashtag datasets are not useful.”
Focus Group Evidence (2014, background): “The variations in how to carry out a focus group are as many as the uses (Belzile & Oberg, 2012; Denzin & Ryan, 2007; Farnsworth & Boon, 2010; Kamberelis & Dimitriadis, 2013; Morgan, 2012) and there is a robust and rich evaluation and applied social research literature that elucidates procedural…”
Personal or Product Reputation? Optimizing Revenues in the Sharing Economy (2019, methodology): “To avoid losing the informative value of these observations, we follow the approach suggested in Howell (2007), attributing the average review score of the other listings.”
Doing Case Study: Abduction Not Induction, Phronesis Not Theory (2010, methodology): “The idea has been foregrounded by historians (e.g., Ferguson, 1999), and although it is mentioned by Ragin (2007) it has not been widely used as part of case-study method in the social sciences.”