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31-10-2013 1 Social media research methods Informational Governance workshop Art Dewulf (Public Administration and Policy Group) Blog comments on Nov. 19 th , 2009 Climate Audit Steven Mosher - Posted Nov 19, 2009 at 1:58 PM Found this on JeffIds site [Air Vent]. http://noconsensus.wordpress.c…..en-letter/ It contains over 1000 mails. IF TRUE … ... you get to see how they “shape” the news, how they struggled between telling the truth and making policy makers happy. ... I don’t know that its real.. But the CRU code looks real The Blackboard Reid of America (Comment#23806)- November 19th, 2009 at 7:53 pm ClimateGate ... Jeff Id (Comment#23809) - November 19th, 2009 at 8:35 pm Climate Gate, Fantastic. ... AirFiero (Comment #24013) - November 20th, 2009 at 11:21 pm If this is true, can we dub this “Climategate”? lucia (Comment #24015) - November 20th, 2009 at 11:36 pm AirFiero– The contenders seem to be “Climategate” and “Crugate”.
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Social media research methods
Informational Governance workshop
Art Dewulf (Public Administration and Policy Group)
Blog comments on Nov. 19th, 2009 Climate Audit
Steven Mosher - Posted Nov 19, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Found this on JeffIds site [Air Vent]. http://noconsensus.wordpress.c…..en-letter/ It contains over 1000 mails. IF TRUE … ... you get to see how they “shape” the news, how they struggled between telling the truth and making policy makers happy. ... I don’t know that its real.. But the CRU code looks real
The Blackboard
Reid of America (Comment#23806)- November 19th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
ClimateGate
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Jeff Id (Comment#23809) - November 19th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Climate Gate,
Fantastic.
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AirFiero (Comment #24013) - November 20th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
If this is true, can we dub this “Climategate”?
lucia (Comment #24015) - November 20th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
AirFiero– The contenders seem to be “Climategate” and “Crugate”.
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Online research
Studying the medium
versus
Studying the social through the medium
Web resources
Digital Methods Initiative (https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ToolDatabase)
Mapping Controversies platform (www.mappingcontroversies.net)
Martin Hawksey blog (http://mashe.hawksey.info)
LinkedIn group “Social Network Analysis in Practice” (http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Social-Network-Analysis-in-Practice-1314427)
MOOC Social Network Analysis (https://www.coursera.org/course/sna)
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Books
Modes of online research
Quantitative Qualitative
Researcher instigated • Online surveys
• Online laboratory experiments
• Online interviews
• Online focus groups
• Online field research
Naturally occurring • Quantitative web content analysis
• Social media network analysis
• Online field/natural experiments
• Qualitative web content analysis
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Web Data
Web 1.0
Websites & hyperlinks
Search results
Web 2.0
Blogs (Blogger, Wordpress, ...)
Instant messaging (Tencent, Skype, ...)
Microblogs (Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, Weibo...)
Social Networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Academia.edu, ...)
Twitter interactions
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Collecting Web 1.0 data
Web crawlers Issuecrawler.net
SocSciBot
VOSON
Web scrapers HTTRack
Helium Scraper
Historical web data Waybackmachine (www.archive.org)
Google Ngram (http://books.google.com/ngrams)
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Google books Ngram viewer
Collecting Web 2.0 data
Blogs
RSS readers (Feedly, Netvibes) + IFTTT.com
Blog analysis toolkit (live archiving) (https://surveyweb2.ucsur.pitt.edu/qblog/page_login.php)
Spinn3r.com (historical blogosphere dataset)
Data gathering through Facebook pages
Data gathering through Facebook applications
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Collecting Twitter data
Live archiving of Tweets based on keywords • Tags v5.0 + TagsExplorer (http://mashe.hawksey.info/2011/02/twitteralyticsv2/)
• NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/)
– free Excel plug-in, also for SNA
Commercial data providers • GNIP (http://gnip.com/products/historical/historical-powertrack/)
• Coosto (www.coosto.com)
– 450 € / month!
Tweets, retweets, replies, mentions, hashtags,
... (TAGS)
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TAGs Explorer (“veehouderij”)
http://timstevensresearch.blogspot.nl/
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TAGSExplorer
Social media network analysis
Networks of
Hyperlinks (directed)
Facebook friends/ LinkedIn contacts (undirected)
Twitter/Google+ Followers (directed)
Twitter interactions (directed/undirected)
Software
Pajek, UCINET, NodeXL, Gephi
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Social
network
analysis
Twitter retweets versus mentions/replies
http://themonkeycage.org/2011/07/27/is-twitter-politically-polarized/
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Quantitative text analysis
Sentiment analysis
WordSTAT 6
Leximancer
Semantic web analysis
Leximancer
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WordSTAT
Thanks
Questions?
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