A topology of Twitter research: disciplines, methods, and ethics

By Michael T. Zimmer, Nicholas Proferes. 2014

237 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Health

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Communication

1. Alexandra Olteanu
2. Fernando Diaz
3. Carlos Castillo
4. Emre Kıcıman
5. Casey Fiesler
6. Megan Finn
7. Nicholas Proferes
8. Kate Crawford

In Health

1. Emre Kıcıman
2. Alexandra Olteanu
3. Ashwin Rajadesingan

Citations in the corpus

• Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries (2019, background): “Yet, Hutton and Henderson (2015b)’s study of 505 papers mentioning a social network between 2011-2013 revealed that only about 6% shared any data, while Zimmer and Proferes (2014) found that of 382 Twitter studies only about 5% use existing datasets collected by other researchers.”
• “Participant” Perceptions of Twitter Research Ethics (2018, background): “Because of the prominent use of Twitter data in research (Zimmer & Proferes, 2014), in this study, we ask: how do Twitter users feel about the use of their tweets in research?”
• The limits of crisis data: analytical and ethical challenges of using social and mobile data to understand disasters (2015, background): “In a survey of academic Twitter data studies, Zimmer and Proferes (2014) analyzed 382 scholarly articles, dissertation and theses published between 2007 and 2012 from a variety of disciplines, and found just 16 articles contained any discussions of ethics.”