Research with Social Media Data: Twitter and Others

This session provides an introduction to doing research using social media data. It discusses the pros and cons of popular popular social media platforms for research including Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube, and discusses how to access and analyze data using multiple tools. No advance knowledge of programming, APIs or statistics is assumed.

Session outcomes:

• Popular social media platforms for research including Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube
• Accessing social media data using tools or APIs
• Common types of analysis
• Legal and ethical considerations

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