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Exploring variation in parental concerns about online safety issues
Parents have different and often conflicting views about what’s best for their children. What’s helpful…
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Ethical privacy guidelines for mobile connectivity measurements
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Measuring the mobile Internet can expose information about an individual’s location, contact details, and communications…
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Five recommendations for maximising the relevance of social science research for public policy-making in the big data era
How can social scientists help policy-makers in this changed environment, ensuring that social science research…
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The promises and threats of big data for public policy-making
Widespread use of digital technologies, the Internet and social media means both citizens and governments…
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Can text mining help handle the data deluge in public policy analysis?
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There has been a major shift in the policies of governments concerning participatory governance—that is,…
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Can Twitter provide an early warning function for the next pandemic?
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While traditional surveillance systems will remain the pillars of public health, online media monitoring has…
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Who represents the Arab world online?
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The Middle East and North Africa are relatively under-represented in Wikipedia. Even after accounting for…
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Responsible research agendas for public policy in the era of big data
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Bringing together leading social science academics with senior government agency staff to discuss its public…
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Is China shaping the Internet in Africa?
Concerns have been expressed about the detrimental role China may play in African media sectors,…
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Harnessing ‘generative friction’: can conflict actually improve quality in open systems?
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The more that differing points of view and differing evaluative frames came into contact, the…
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Uncovering the patterns and practice of censorship in Chinese news sites
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Is censorship of domestic news more geared towards “avoiding panics and maintaining social order”, or…
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Predicting elections on Twitter: a different way of thinking about the data
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Social media monitoring, which in theory can extract information from tweets and Facebook posts and…