Big data and new social relations in higher education: Academia.edu, Google Scholar and ResearchGate

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWorld Yearbook of Education 2019
Subtitle of host publicationComparative Methodology in the Era of Big Data and Global Networks
EditorsRadhika Gorur, Sam Sellar, Ghita Steiner-Khamsi
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter9
Pages148-164
Number of pages17
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781315147338
ISBN (Print)9781138550728, 9780367487874
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Oct 2018

Publication series

NameWorld Yearbook of Education
PublisherRoutledge

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