The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods

About

Luke Sloan is Professor and Deputy Director of the Social Data Science Lab and reader at the School of Social Sciences Cardiff University. His research focuses on understanding what social media can tell us about the social world with a particular emphasis on data linkage and ethics. Dr. Anabel Quan-Haase (Ph.D. University of Toronto) is a Full Professor of Sociology and Information and Media Studies at Western University and the Rogers Chair in Studies in Journalism and Information Technology. She is the author of Technology and Society (Oxford University Press 2020) co-author of Real-Life Sociology (Oxford University Press 2021) co-editor of the Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (Sage 2022) and co-editor of the Handbook of Computational Social Science (Routledge 2022). Dr. Quan-Haase has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles book chapters and conference proceedings. She is past chair of the Communication Information Technology and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association and past president of the Canadian Association for Information Science. Through her policy work she has cooperated with the Benton Foundation Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Canada's Digital Policy Forum.