TY - CHAP
T1 - Big data and new social relations in higher education
T2 - Academia.edu, Google Scholar and ResearchGate
AU - Komljenovic, Janja
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in World Yearbook of Education 2019 on 25/10/2018, available online: https://www.routledge.com/World-Yearbook-of-Education-2019-Comparative-Methodology-in-the-Era-of/Gorur-Sellar-Steiner-Khamsi/p/book/9781138550728
PY - 2018/10/25
Y1 - 2018/10/25
N2 - This chapter focuses on digital platforms in relation to higher education and academia. Specifically, it investigates Academia.edu, Google Scholar and ResearchGate as examples of platforms targeting the higher education sector, signing up hundreds of thousands of academics, allowing new forms and possibilities of relations and networking between them, and at the same collecting large amounts of data. The chapter first explores what kind of research possibilities the platforms and big data enable methodologically. Second, it focuses on digital platforms as objects of enquiry and explores what kind of social relations these platforms construct and what kind of social world they constitute.
AB - This chapter focuses on digital platforms in relation to higher education and academia. Specifically, it investigates Academia.edu, Google Scholar and ResearchGate as examples of platforms targeting the higher education sector, signing up hundreds of thousands of academics, allowing new forms and possibilities of relations and networking between them, and at the same collecting large amounts of data. The chapter first explores what kind of research possibilities the platforms and big data enable methodologically. Second, it focuses on digital platforms as objects of enquiry and explores what kind of social relations these platforms construct and what kind of social world they constitute.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/World-Yearbook-of-Education-2019-Comparative-Methodology-in-the-Era-of-Big-Data-and-Global-Networks/Gorur-Sellar-Steiner-Khamsi/p/book/9780367487874
U2 - 10.4324/9781315147338-12
DO - 10.4324/9781315147338-12
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781138550728
SN - 9780367487874
T3 - World Yearbook of Education
SP - 148
EP - 164
BT - World Yearbook of Education 2019
A2 - Gorur, Radhika
A2 - Sellar, Sam
A2 - Steiner-Khamsi, Ghita
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -