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    Procter, Rob; Vis, Farida; Voss, Alex

    International journal of social research methodology, 20/5/1/, Volume: 16, Issue: 3
    Journal Article

    For social scientists, the widespread adoption of social media presents both an opportunity and a challenge. Data that can shed light on people's habits, opinions and behaviour is available now on a scale never seen before, but this also means that it is impossible to analyse using conventional methodologies and tools. This article represents an experiment in applying a computationally assisted methodology to the analysis of a large corpus of tweets sent during the August 2011 riots in England.