Data sources for measuring online activity

I have updated the list with general data sources for measuring the internet, excluding ISTs and qualitative resources

Reporting on individual behavior

Client-side behavioral monitoring software

Cookies and browsing history

Consumer Surveys

Network monitoring

location type, quantity of traffic

Monitoring by ISPs

Monitoring by network services

Data collection by websites and services

visitors, contributors, content, links, comments, languages, locations

Websites, including social media platform/service-based mapping

Search Data

Social media mapping

link and/or content-based

Landscape mapping

platform/service-based mapping

Topical or issue-based mapping

Theodor Kolovos

More Data sources for measuring online activity Schema for institutional ecology Locus of Control in Online Environments Adamic and Glance Predictability and Prediction for a Media-Experimental Cultural Market Network readiness index and web index Communication platform design characteristics (public sphere) Criteria for the measurement of the impact of the internet in society Shift on internet studies Direct measures of the internet (ISP/ICT)

Participating @: ICTs for “development” Cyberscholar Working Group Transmedia Mobilization CRCS Designs for Privacy

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