Methodological approaches for digital research on Twitter
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https://doi.org/10.35319/puntocero.202143179Keywords:
Social Research, Digital Social Networks, Social Media, TwitterAbstract
As part of the research “Senses of democracy generated in the digital communities formed in Twitter, as of the crisis of October 20, 2019 in Bolivia”, the article aims to introduce essential methodological elements for consulting data from the API from Twitter through the RStudio IDE and the “academictwitteR” and “tidyverse” libraries applied in the study. A tour is made of the data model that Twitter uses to optimize queries in its API v2 and the Academic Research Product Track, which allows academic research to access the historical base of tweets and make queries. In addition, three aspects of analysis and visualization of the data obtained are presented: descriptive statistical analysis, content analysis and network analysis. The coexistence of society between the Internet and the face-to-face sphere highlights the need to apply digital social methods for data analysis, which is why this article becomes a space for understanding a method applied to this type of research.
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