1. Finding Mobile Internet Policy
Actors in Big Data:
Methodological Concerns in Social
Network Analysis
Methodological Concerns in Social
Network Analysis
Gerard Goggin, Tim Dwyer, Fiona Martin, Jonathon
Hutchinson
University of Sydney
mobileinternetresearch.net

2. https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=TrHeZDMI91U

3. Mobile Media
Information and Communication Policy for
Mobile Technologies
> media diversity
> locative media
> mobile health

4. Mobile Health

6. Methodology
• Neo-Marxism
• Critical cultural studies
• Power Relations
• Networked society

7. Methodology
1. Automating research changes the definition of
knowledge
2. Claims to objectivity and accuracy are
misleading
3. Bigger data are not always better data
4. Not all data are equivalent
5. Just because its accessible doesn’t make it
ethical
6. Limited access to big data create new digital
divides
boyd & Crawford, 2011

8. Methodology
1. Capturing the data
2. Cleaning the data
3. Visualising the data

9. The Work Pipeline

10. Users Within a Twitter Network

12. #mHealth Professional Community
#mhealth general community
@TeamHealthNut Exercise Community

14. 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?

15. Mobile Media
Gerard Goggin, Timothy Dwyer, Fiona Martin, Jonathon
Hutchinson
mobileinternetresearch.net
@MobileInternetz