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Web Scraping: A Useful Tool to Broaden and Extend Psychological Research
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Abstract When people use the Internet, they leave traces of their activities: blog posts, comments, articles, social media posts, etc. These traces represent behavior that psychologists can analyze. A method that makes downloading those sometimes very large datasets feasible is web scraping, which involves w... mehr
When people use the Internet, they leave traces of their activities: blog posts, comments, articles, social media posts, etc. These traces represent behavior that psychologists can analyze. A method that makes downloading those sometimes very large datasets feasible is web scraping, which involves writing a program to automatically download specific parts of a website. The obtained data can be used to exploratorily generate new hypotheses, test existing ones, or extend existing research. The present Research Spotlight explains web scraping and discusses the possibilities, limitations as well as ethical and legal challenges associated with the approach.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Internet; Recherche; Ethik; Sozialpsychologie; Verhaltenspsychologie; Soziale Medien; Digitale Medien; Daten; Datengewinnung
Klassifikation
Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Sozialpsychologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Politbarometer 1977-2019 (Partielle Kumulation) (ZA2391 v12.0.0); web scraping; Big Data; internet research ethics
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 241-244
Zeitschriftentitel
Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 229 (2021) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000470
ISSN
2151-2604
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)