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Computing the everyday: Social media as data platforms

Overview of attention for article published in The Information Society, June 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#12 of 443)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)

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news
8 news outlets
twitter
18 X users

Readers on

mendeley
340 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Computing the everyday: Social media as data platforms
Published in
The Information Society, June 2017
DOI 10.1080/01972243.2017.1318327
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 339 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 61 18%
Student > Master 49 14%
Student > Bachelor 33 10%
Researcher 17 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 5%
Other 41 12%
Unknown 123 36%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 80 24%
Social Sciences 61 18%
Computer Science 24 7%
Arts and Humanities 14 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 9 3%
Other 22 6%
Unknown 130 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 79. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 September 2026.
All research outputs
#687,211
of 34,317,218 outputs
Outputs from The Information Society
#12
of 443 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,693
of 366,422 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Information Society
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,317,218 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 443 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 366,422 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 4 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them