In Search of Lost Profiles: The Reliability of VKontakte Data and Its Importance for Educational Research

The potential of VKontakte as a data source is now acknowledged in educational research, but little is known about the reliability of data obtained from this social network and about its sampling bias. Our article investigates the reliability of VK data, using the examples of a secondary school (766...

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Main Authors: Ivan Smirnov, Elizaveta Sivak, Yana Kozmina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) 2016-12-01
Series:Вопросы образования
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Online Access:https://vo.hse.ru/article/view/15597