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This research was made possible by NSF Award #1243170INSPIRE: Tools, Models, and Innovation Platforms for Research on Social Media
The SoMe Lab Team
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Social Media ResearchObjectives for Today’s Workshop
• Open the “black box” of social media research• Design• Method• Procedures
• Describe our experiences and choices; outline what (we think) we’ve learned
• Walk through some examples; use SoMe Tools (alpha version)
• Discuss next steps
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Let’s do some social media research!
Well, some mock research anyhow.
Preparing to Collect Data
Collection and Processing
Visualizations and Analytics
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Preparing to Collect Data
Ethical implications for social media researchers
Selecting a topic and platform
Keyterm selection
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Ethics: Beyond the IRB
Necessary, but not necessarily sufficient
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The digital notion of “public”
Folks do things in publicthat they’d rather not see
made more public.
…and the Internet is forever
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I can see my house from here!
I tweet every day whenI get home from school!
I also tweet during your 3:30pm T/Th lecture!
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Protecting subjectsfrom risk
Secure your data.
Don’t use e-mail or platforms attached to your
e-mail for data.
Have a legal plan.
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What other ethical obligations dowe have in social media research?
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Sorry, no #ows today.
We’ll need another topic.
Let’s talk about selecting one.
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Selecting a topic
Largely an issue of time
Time may encourage aninductive or deductive
approach
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Selecting key terms
Key terms are strings, that when matched, tell the Twitter API to give you the matching tweet
Extremely generous (to a fault):Matches @-mentions, text within the tweet,
within a URL within the tweet,
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Now you try!
What are the public’s interactions on Twitter
surrounding the fiscal cliff?
Focus on two questions:How do you go about the process of finding keywords?
Which keywords did you select?
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Next Steps
• SoMe Lab Efforts: our plans– Toolkit: comments and suggestions welcomed– Using it: follow us on the website or ask to be on
our on our mailing list for latest developments• How to assure on-going learning among social
media researchers [Work toward shared frameworks for reporting work? A community wiki or portal? HICSS mini-track? …]