Finding Mobile Internet Policy Actors in Big Data:

Methodological Concerns in Social Network Analysis

Gerard Goggin, Tim Dwyer, Fiona Martin, Jonathon HutchinsonUniversity of Sydney

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Mobile Media

Information and Communication Policy for Mobile Technologies

> media diversity

> locative media

> mobile health

Mobile Health

Methodology

•Neo-Marxism

•Critical cultural studies

•Power Relations

•Networked society

Methodology1. Automating research changes the definition of knowledge

2. Claims to objectivity and accuracy are misleading

3. Bigger data are not always better data4. Not all data are equivalent5. Just because its accessible doesn’t make it ethical

6. Limited access to big data create new digital divides

boyd & Crawford, 2011

Methodology

1. Capturing the data

2. Cleaning the data

3. Visualising the data

The Work Pipeline

Users Within a Twitter Network

#mHealth Professional Community

#mhealth general community

@TeamHealthNut Exercise Community

Discussion

•Collaborative quantitative and qualitative methodologies

•Big data is not necessarily better data

•Deep data is useful

•Dispels utopianism through critical cultural studies

•Is having user names ethical?

Mobile Media

Gerard Goggin, Timothy Dwyer, Fiona Martin, Jonathon Hutchinson

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