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Deadline approaching: CfP Content Moderation and Its Discontents
by Jacob Johanssen 08 May '23

08 May '23

*Content Moderation and Its Discontents* *An International Conference, St. Mary’s University (London, UK), 23 June 2023 * *Call for Papers* In recent years, content moderation on social media has become a contested topic. As forms of online extremism, harassment and hate speech have increased on major platforms, community guidelines and AI-based detection and moderation policies have been introduced to tighten regulation, yet such plans often fall short or are actively circumvented, as Elon Musk’s efforts at undoing what he regards as excessive restriction of “free speech” on Twitter demonstrate for instance. Some spaces on the internet are also notorious for their lax or inexistent moderation policies, such as Reddit or 4chan. In times of culture wars, many have also claimed an erosion of free speech in a climate of “cancel culture” in which it has allegedly become impossible to share particular viewpoints or ideas. Equally many have disputed the very existence of cancel culture and have pointed out that many instances of deplatforming or cancellation are mere shifts in discourses whereby voices who have been marginalised are now claiming their rightful place on the discursive stage. This conference takes the complex relationship between the facilitation and moderation of content and particularly of content that can broadly be labelled “problematic” as a starting point. Opinions among politicians, tech experts, academics and others differ in relation to what types of content should be flagged or removed by platforms or if too restrictive regulation constitutes censorship. A blanket ban on “problematic” online content is unrealistic and perhaps counterproductive. While illegal content or posts that constitute hate speech such as death threats should surely be removed, the question of content moderation becomes more complex when it comes to “problematic” content such as images of self-harm, “pro-Ana” communities or the open discussion of mental health problems like suicidality or depression. This interdisciplinary conference invites papers that deal with the complexity of content moderation and associated topics from different perspectives. We invite critical papers that can address but are not limited to: - The dynamics and functions of content moderation (flagging, up and downvoting, removing, etc.) - Content moderators, labour and trauma - Practices of in/visibility: shadow banning, soft blocking and other forms of disengagement - Self and collective regulation (e.g. in fora) - Content moderation, regulation and the law - Culture wars and cancel culture - Polarisation, filter bubbles and echo chambers - Problematic content and mental health communities - Shitstorms and online shaming - Psychodynamics of social media and platforms This conference is organised by Jacob Johanssen (St. Mary’s University), Daniela Nadj (St. Mary’s University) and Susanne Benzel (Sigmund Freud Institute, University of Frankfurt) as part of the research project *Mapping Online Mental Illness Communities: History, Representation and Questions of Regulation*. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. It will be a hybrid event. In-person attendance is encouraged and virtual participation is possible. Please submit an abstract of 250-500 words by *08 May* to the organisers: jacob.johanssen(a)stmarys.ac.uk, daniela.nadj(a)stmarys.ac.uk and benzel(a)sigmund-freud-institut.de

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CFP // 4S Open Panel // Messiness in Ethnography
by Sarah Rüller 08 May '23

08 May '23

Dear colleagues, We are inviting submissions to our open panel 147. Acknowledging and Embracing the Complexities of Conducting Ethnography: Navigating the Notions of Messiness in the Field to be submitted to the 4S Conference (Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), which will take place in Honolulu, Hawai’i on November 8 - 11, 2023. Deadline for submission is May 26, 2023. Panel Description: This open panel explores the challenges and complexities of conducting ethnographic research in messy, real-world environments within the disciplines of STS, Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Media Anthropology. Ethnography often requires researchers to navigate complex social dynamics, unpredictable events, and unexpected outcomes. Research carried out in contexts under occupation or oppression, faced with war crimes or human rights violations bring out even more uncertainties, complexities, and potentially even trauma. Ethnography undoubtedly carries the notion of (neo-)colonialism, exploitation, and extractivism. Questions that should occur here are: How do we ensure that our research/work does not play into these practices? What are steps we can take to counteract these exploitive mechanisms? What authority do we have to do the research we are doing? Who is actually benefiting from our work and how can we align that with decolonial thinking? This open panel seeks to bring together researchers who are acknowledging and embracing these complexities and who are seeking and/or developing strategies to manage the messiness of ethnography. It is open to both conceptual and empirical presentations that address the challenges of ethnographic research and offer insights into how to navigate the nuances of messy ethnographic fieldwork. We encourage researchers to submit reflective pieces which are very personal and show the influence the research setting has on the researcher. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to: • The impact of unexpected events and outcomes on ethnographic research • Strategies for adapting to changes in the field and managing the messiness of ethnography • The role of reflexivity in navigating messy ethnographic scenarios • Reflections on the researcher’s authority and privilege • The ethical considerations of conducting messy ethnographic research • Approaches to analyzing and making sense of complex and unpredictable ethnographic data • The challenges of preserving the validity and reliability of ethnographic findings in messy environments. • The influence of the research setting on the researcher Session Chairs: Sarah Rüller (sarah.rueller(a)uni-siegen.de) and Konstantin Aal (konstantin.aal(a)uni-siegen.de) Keywords: University-Society Relations, Method, and Practice, Decolonial and Postcolonial STS, Ethnography; Messiness; Authority Submissions: If you would like to participate in this session, please submit your individual abstract of approx. 250 words and follow the instructions described here: https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions.php ### The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) is an international, nonprofit association founded in 1975 that fosters interdisciplinary and engaged scholarship in social studies of science, technology, and medicine (a field often referred to as STS). This year, 4S will be holding its annual meeting at the Honolulu Convention Center in Hawai’i, November 8-11, 2023. This year’s theme is “Sea, Sky, and Land: Engaging in Solidarity in Endangered Ecologies.” More information can be found here: https://www.4sonline.org/meeting.php _________________ Sarah Rüller M.Sc. Pronouns (She/Her) Researcher // CRC 1187 - Media of Cooperation PhD candidate // Information Systems and New Media University of Siegen Kohlbettstraße 15 // 57072 Siegen // Room: US-E 103 Phone: +49 271 740 3474

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Real-Time Intelligent Systems 2023 by Springer
by ijwa dline.info 06 May '23

06 May '23

Fifth International Conference on Real-Time Intelligent Systems October 09-11, 2023 University of Bedfordshire, UK Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems by Springer Earlier conferences took place in Taipei, Taiwan (2018); Casablanca, Morocco (2017); Beijing, China (2016). The 5th RTIS will take place at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Over the last few years, real-time intelligent computing has radically transformed the human lifestyle. Research on real-time intelligent systems is multi-disciplinary, exploiting concepts from diverse areas such as big data processing, computational intelligence, location-based services, recommendation systems, and multimedia processing. In today’s highly dynamic environment, analysing data in real-time is a must to understand how systems process data, reason the outputs, and anticipate trends in intelligent computing. To this end, this conference will serve as a platform to manifest the ongoing research in the field. Thus, RTIS welcomes theoretically grounded, methodologically sound papers that address aspects related to topics, such as: Artificial Intelligence Techniques Artificial Intelligence and Data mining Streaming data, streaming engines Trace-based intelligent real-time services Adaptive vision algorithms Location-based services Intelligent Robotic Systems Collaborative Intelligence Processing Intelligent Databases Data capture in real-time Data quality and cleansing Intelligent Data Analysis Intelligent Database Systems Big Data systems and applications for high-velocity data Intelligent Information Systems Privacy and Security in Intelligence Software Engineering Solutions Intelligent Soft Computing Real-time multiprocessor systems Internet of Things Architectures for Intelligence Real-time distributed coding Smart services and platforms Real-time modelling user information needs Wireless Communication Real-time intelligent communication Real-time intelligent network solutions Mobile Smart Systems Broadband Intelligence Cloud Computing and Intelligence Collaborative Intelligence Analysis in domains such as energy, sensors Expert Systems Decision support systems in real time Multi-agent Intelligent Systems Multilingual information access Recommendation systems Real-time intelligent alert systems Real-time remote access systems Intelligent Transportation Systems Critical Real-Time Applications Real-time noise removal systems Event-driven analytics Intelligent Fuzzy Systems Machine translation in real time OLAP for real-time decision support Crowdsourcing and crowd intelligence Submission, proceedings Papers must be submitted online through OpenConf. Author instructions and LaTex2e (preferred) and Word macro files are available on the submission page. Submitted papers should be within 14 pages (long papers) and eight pages (short ones), including figures, tables and references. Authors of accepted papers are required to transfer their copyrights. For a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors MUST register for the conference by the camera-ready submission deadline with full registration. The proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems by Springer. Extended versions of the conference papers will be considered for publication in the Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JCMSE) Journal of Digital Information Management Journal of Intelligent Computing Venue The venue is the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Important Dates Full Paper Submission: July 20, 2023 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 15, 2023 Registration Due: September 15, 2023 Camera Ready Due: September 15, 2023 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos: October 08, 2023 Main conference: October 09-11, 2023 Post-conference proceedings: October 25, 2023 General Chairs Ricardo Rodriguez-Jorge, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University , Czech Republic Martín LÓPEZ-NORES, University of Vigo, Spain Program Chairs Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs, India Workshop/Special Issues Chair Ezendu Ariwa, University of Warwick, UK Contact: stm(a)socio.org.uk

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DEADLINE EXTENSION for the Identity and Social Media Symposium: Bridging the Gaps between Computational Methods and Critical/Cultural Perspectives
by SEAN T LAWSON 05 May '23

05 May '23

DEADLINE EXTENSION for the Identity and Social Media Symposium: Bridging the Gaps between Computational Methods and Critical/Cultural Perspectives 28-29 September 2023 Salt Lake City, UT We are extending the deadline for submissions by one week. If you have not had a chance to apply yet, you can now do so until 12 May 2023 The Edna Anderson-Taylor Communication Institute at the University of Utah invites proposals from advanced doctoral students who are studying the intersections of identity and social media. In this symposium, 12-15 doctoral students from communication and related disciplines will have the opportunity to present their work in progress to one another and to a panel of faculty mentors from around the country. Each student will participate in a panel of 4-5 other students. Each panel will be overseen by two faculty mentors who research issues related to identity and social media, one with critical/cultural expertise and one with computational social science expertise. Faculty mentors will provide detailed feedback and lead panel discussions on their student panelists' work. There are growing bodies of excellent research on problems related to identity and social media from scholars taking both critical/cultural and computation social science approaches. Unfortunately, these scholars are often not in conversation with one another. Our goal with the symposium is to help bridge the gap among different approaches and traditions of communication research by creating a setting where those trained in different approaches can think together about this year's symposium theme. Specifically, we hope to provide an opportunity for emerging scholars to present and get feedback on their work from established scholars who approach our theme from both critical/cultural and computational perspectives. Short proposals of 500 words are invited for work-in-progress papers of roughly 3,000-4,000 words. Accepted participants will turn in their completed draft ahead of the symposium for mentors and other participants to read in advance. This is to facilitate productive discussion and feedback on each participant's paper. You can submit your proposal using the following form: https://forms.gle/QhNxumPMenr9nzGb8 All proposals are due 12 May 2023, with decisions about acceptance expected by 16 June 2023. Please send any submission questions to Sean Lawson at sean.lawson(a)utah.edu<mailto:sean.lawson@utah.edu> More information about the Edna Anderson-Taylor Communication Institute can be found at https://institute.communication.utah.edu/ Modest stipends will be available to help offset travel costs for a limited number of accepted participants with a demonstrated need for assistance.

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Deadline approaching ECREA's Contested Visibilities **15 May** | abstract submission
by Ana Marta M. Flores 05 May '23

05 May '23

*****Contested Visibilities: Everyday politics and online imaginaries of the body* deadline approaching*** *CALL FOR PAPERS* Contested Visibilities: Everyday politics and online imaginaries of the body 6-8 September 2023, Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal The conference will include different formats for presentation on topics related to contested visibilities, everyday politics and online imaginaries of the body. We welcome individual submissions for oral presentations, which will be arranged in thematic sessions by the organising team. We also welcome submissions in alternative and creative formats, proposals may include video, audio, images, text, hyperlinks and multimedia that illustrate your reflections in the proposal. We are interested in abstracts that address the complexity of online representations of bodies and/or related visual practices (e.g., producing, perceiving, curating, circulating) through case studies, theoretical, empirical or methodological approaches. We strongly encourage submissions that take an intersectional approach and address embodiment in relation to social factors such as gender, sexuality, age, class, race/ethnicity, disability, and nationality. We are open to contributions from scholars at all career stages (early-career scholars are especially invited to participate), artists, activists, and media producers. We look forward to submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics: · The use of digital media for feminist, queer, anti-racist, anti-ageist, anti-ableist, anti-classist, neurodiversity, or illness related activism and the returning critique of the normative body; · Reactionary visualities to the above activism and hate speech/imaginaries "against the woke"; · The intertwinement of socio-cultural imaginaries with platform cultures; · Chances and limits of hybridisation of commercial culture, strategies of self-branding and body activism; · Practical experiments with methods attuned to the 'online-groundedness' of social body images (e.g., body-image dominated platforms such as TikTok or Instagram); · Impact of online representation of bodies in various fields such as sports, memory cultures, advertising, fan/pop cultures, etc; · Augmented technologies of filtering, avatars and their significance for identity and meaning-making; · Images shared without consent, images that reproduce stereotypes and resistance by minority communities; · Images produced by media and news organisations as part of their work, which are ultimately criticised for 'othering'/stereotyping communities, and the activism involved; · Online communities as sites of political pedagogy and critique of mainstream/traditional media's stereotyping of the body; · Dialectical dialogues about the body in the online sphere: metadiscourses, beefs, videos about videos, Tiktok reframings; · Gendered and sexua(lised) digital/online representations of embodied diversity, difference and intersectionality; · Critical analysis of the relationships between digital spheres and gendered and sexual(ised) performativity, resistance and defiance; · Representations of bodies in relation to technology and artificial intelligence; Please *submit your proposal (300- 500 words) until 15 May, 23:59 (CET) *using this link ***<https://bit.ly/ContestedVisibilities>*** and highlight how your work relates to the conference topic, methods used, and perspectives you would like to bring to the discussion. In addition to the thematic sessions, the conference will facilitate practical tutorials dedicated to creative/situated/ethical approaches to digital platforms and visual data. In addition, our YECREA team offers an online pre-conference workshop for early-career scholars focusing on research challenges (ethics, data access, collection, analysis etc.) via Zoom on Monday, 4 September 2023. This event will offer ECRs the opportunity to present their work in progress. If you wish to participate in the ECR pre-conference event, please submit an abstract of 200-300 words, briefly describing your current project and research challenges, e.g. in regard to research ethics, data collection, access, or analysis. The accepted participants will engage in facilitated peer discussions based on their submissions. Participation in the pre-conference YECREA workshop can be independent of participation in the conference. Please indicate how you would like to participate using this link ***<https://bit.ly/workshopContestedVisibilities>*** by 15 May, 23:59 (CET). Participation in the online workshop is free of charge. ***Invited speakers*** Daniela Jaramillo-Dent | University of Zurich Daniela Jaramillo-Dent is an internet scholar with research and teaching expertise on migration, digital media, and social justice. Her research has explored algorithmic (in)visibility, minority representation and inequality in digital platforms. She has contributed to and held leadership roles in research projects at the local, national and European levels. She has international teaching experience in fields related to digital inequality, research methods and media literacy and has led teaching innovation projects and training workshops for innovative teaching in Higher Education. Marloes Geboers | University of Amsterdam Marloes Geboers’ work revolves around the visuality of warfare as produced within and through platforms and their fast-evolving participatory modalities. Her dissertation focused on platform affective affordances and their role in constructing regimes of visibility relating to the Syrian war. Alongside these topics, she authored work on platform-afforded digital violence aimed at journalists. She blends digital methods and automated image analyses in order to study performative expressions that replicate, imitate or subvert propaganda narratives in more or less tactical ways. These user practices shape and are shaped by platform vernaculars that have a profound impact on the way we see and experience war within contemporary media ecologies. Marloes has a background in political science (MA) and journalism (BA), and she has teaching experience in digital methods and the ethics of AI. Katrin Tiinberg | Tallinn University Katrin Tiidenberg works at the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School of Tallinn University as a Professor of Participatory Culture. Her research focuses on the hows and whys of people's social media practices, with a particular emphasis on visuality, sex and political participation. The overarching questions she tends to ask are about identity, community, norms and power. She is currently wrapping up a research project on the platformization of sexuality (Rethinking Sexuality) and the role of the internet in young people’s political participation (DigiGen) and has just started a project on visual digital trust (TRAVIS). ***Fees*** The fee includes buffet lunches and tea/coffee breaks during the three-day conference. non-members | 100€ ECREA members and Lusófona students | 80€ Early career Researchers | 60€ Registration opens in early July and will be processed via the Eventbrite platform. ***Organisation*** This ECREA conference is co-organised by the Digital Culture and Communication, Gender, Sexuality and Communication and Visual Cultures sections and their YECREA representatives. Hosted and sponsored by Lusófona University. The conference is partially supported by funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement Nº 101059460. For questions, please send an email to <ContestedVisibilities2023(a)gmail.com> ***Timeline*** · The deadline for submissions is Monday 15 May 2023, 23:59 (CET) · We will notify all contributors if their proposal has been accepted or not by the end of June · Registration for the conference will be open in early July · The event will take place on the 6-8 September 2023, at Lusófona University Lisbon. // ANA MARTA M. FLORES [+] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/anammflores> www.anamartaflores.com +351 910 678 694

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TikTok & Children Symposium Zoom event on 08 May 2023
by Jin Lee 05 May '23

05 May '23

Dear colleagues, TikTok Cultures Research Network and ARC Centre for the Digital Child are pleased to announce our first collaboration event (TCRN's 7th event), TikTok & Children Symposium on 08 May 2023. This one-day Zoom event features [1] a conversation with TikTok, [2] an academic round table with leading ECR scholars on TikTok, and [3] 5 sessions of 20 papers. We invite professionals from media industries and social media industries, students and researchers in academia, and members of the general public to attend this event. The event is free but registration is required. Please register here < https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_U-u81UfUR9CW8AwuiiZxTQ#/registr… >. For more info about the event:< https://tiktokcultures.com/tiktok-and-children/> This event is brought to you by the TikTok Cultures Research Network < https://tiktokcultures.com/> and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child <https://www.digitalchild.org.au/>, and supported by the Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT) and the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University <https://ccat.curtin.edu.au/>. Jin on behalf of TikTok & Children Team -- Jin Lee, PhD Research Fellow, Internet Studies, Curtin University & ARC Centre of Digital Child Affiliated researcher, Korean Research Centre of Western Australia Visit my website <https://ljin8788.wixsite.com/website> for more

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question about using online comments
by Janet Salmons 04 May '23

04 May '23

NVivo has a cool option called NCapture, see https://bit.ly/3NG38k5. "NCapture is a free web-browser extension for Chrome that enables you to gather web content to import into NVivo... NCapture files (.nvcx) contain your captured content as well as the URLs, capture times and any additional information such as a descriptions, memos and coding that you specified at the time of capture." If you are interested in the ethical side of this kind of research, please see this Sage Methodspace post, featuring an interview with Wyke Stommel (https://bit.ly/3AY3lYu) and the open-access article she discusses: " Ethical approval: none sought. How discourse analysts report ethical issues around publicly available online data." Another post, "Methods in Action: The Ethics of Studying Online Comments" includes an open-access research case and a discussion with the researcher: https://bit.ly/3LJv3y7. All the best, Janet Janet Salmons, PhD (She/her/hers) Research Community Manager, SAGE MethodSpace.com Boulder, Colorado USA jsalmons(a)vision2lead.com Now available! Doing Qualitative Research Online, 2nd edition (720) 507-3965 -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2023 2:01 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 226, Issue 4 Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. question about using online comments (Wiley, Chris) 2. Re: question about using online comments (Peter Timusk) 3. Re: question about using online comments (Avner Kantor) 4. Re: question about using online comments (Deena Abul-Fottouh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 3 May 2023 20:39:31 +0000 From: "Wiley, Chris" <cawiley(a)illinois.edu> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] question about using online comments Message-ID: <MW5PR11MB5787B7F6804C0FC69084DCF2D76C9(a)MW5PR11MB5787.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi I've been doing research using online comments on news websites. I was wondering are there any tools to extract the comments outside of copying and pasting? Chris Wiley ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 3 May 2023 19:11:52 -0400 From: Peter Timusk <peterotimusk(a)gmail.com> To: "Wiley, Chris" <cawiley(a)illinois.edu> Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] question about using online comments Message-ID: <CACdrEbYgFq94qMVqOpGFKQvbCa7rHsbXj-LOj4P1qTYrvPLDGQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" You can use some softwares like R or SAS or Python to request web pages as data or text files. This may have varying degrees of success. You can put these requests in loops to make multiple requests across says dates of news reporting. Then you have to clean up the data and isolate the comments from inside the text files. On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 4:49?PM Wiley, Chris via Air-L < air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Hi > I've been doing research using online comments on news websites. I > was wondering are there any tools to extract the comments outside of > copying and pasting? > > Chris Wiley > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the > Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change > options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 12:20:44 +0300 From: Avner Kantor <avnerkantor(a)gmail.com> To: Peter Timusk <peterotimusk(a)gmail.com> Cc: "Wiley, Chris" <cawiley(a)illinois.edu>, "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] question about using online comments Message-ID: <CAGz-SeDABtp-rhfYtaa-52bwiCdPvkD_ooSdpea5xCxhasrEAA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" A lot of news websites offer an API that makes extracting comments easiest. On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 2:23?AM Peter Timusk via Air-L < air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > You can use some softwares like R or SAS or Python to request web > pages as data or text files. This may have varying degrees of success. > You can put these requests in loops to make multiple requests across > says dates of news reporting. Then you have to clean up the data and > isolate the comments from inside the text files. > > On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 4:49?PM Wiley, Chris via Air-L < > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > > > Hi > > I've been doing research using online comments on news websites. I > > was wondering are there any tools to extract the comments outside of > > copying and pasting? > > > > Chris Wiley > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the > > Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, > > change options or unsubscribe at: > > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the > Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change > options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 14:49:47 +0000 From: Deena Abul-Fottouh <abulfodm(a)mcmaster.ca> To: Peter Timusk <peterotimusk(a)gmail.com>, "avnerkantor(a)gmail.com" <avnerkantor(a)gmail.com> Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] question about using online comments Message-ID: <YQBPR01MB10382ADAE2C1B7B6F591FD21DDE6D9(a)YQBPR01MB10382.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi, This tutorial video might be useful [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Yh_4oE-Fs [2]Web Scrape Text from ANY Website - Web Scraping in R (Part 1) Web Scraping in R is super easy and useful, and in this video I scrape movies from IMDb into a data frame in R using the rvest library and then export the data frame as a csv, all in a few lines of code. This method works across many sites -- typically those that show static content -- such as Yelp, Amazon, Wikipedia, Google, and more. Part 2 ... www.youtube.com Best, Deena ____________________________ Deena Abul-Fottouh, PhD. Postdoctoral Research Fellow Digital Society Lab Political Science Department Phone icon t??phone: [3](905) 525-9140 Envelope icon ?email: [4]abulfodm(a)mcmaster.ca McMaster University 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, ON L8S 4M4 McMaster University Brighter World logo __________________________________________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Avner Kantor via Air-L <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Sent: May 4, 2023 5:20 AM To: Peter Timusk <peterotimusk(a)gmail.com> Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] question about using online comments A lot of news websites offer an API that makes extracting comments easiest. On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 2:23?AM Peter Timusk via Air-L < air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > You can use some softwares like R or SAS or Python to request web pages as > data or text files. This may have varying degrees of success. You can put > these requests in loops to make multiple requests across says dates of news > reporting. Then you have to clean up the data and isolate the comments from > inside the text files. > > On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 4:49?PM Wiley, Chris via Air-L < > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > > > Hi > > I've been doing research using online comments on news websites. 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Introducing the 2023-25 AoIR Executive Committee
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 04 May '23

04 May '23

We are happy to announce the results of the AoIR Executive Committee election. But first, some thank yous and some information about the election. AoIR would like to thank our election monitors, Fabio Giglietto and Jennifer Stromer-Galley, who, in accordance with the terms of our Bylaws certified the results. And of course thank you to everyone who ran for office and everyone who voted! The new Executive Committee will officially take office in October at the Association General Meeting. We hope you’ll join us online to meet with them and provide your input regarding the future direction of the Association. Here is your 2023 – 2025 Executive Committee: - President (elected as Vice President in the 2021 Election): Nicholas John, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel - Vice President (becomes President in two years): Sarah Roberts, UCLA, USA - Immediate Past President (elected as Vice President in the 2019 Election): Tama Leaver, Curtain University, Perth, WA Australia - Secretary: Gabriel Pereira, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK - Treasurer: Sam Srauy, Oakland University Michigan, USA - Graduate Student Representative: Tom Divon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel - Open Seats: 1) Sophie Bishop, Sheffield University, UK; 2) Ariadna Matamoros-Fernandez, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; 3) Job Mwaura, University of Cape Town, South Africa Additionally, the new AoIR Code of Conduct has been ratified by membership vote. Thanks again to everyone who participated in the election. AoIR is excited about our future with such a great group of members leading the way!

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question about using online comments
by Wiley, Chris 04 May '23

04 May '23

Hi I've been doing research using online comments on news websites. I was wondering are there any tools to extract the comments outside of copying and pasting? Chris Wiley

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Digital Advocacy & Politics - Big Trends in 2023
by Colin Delany 03 May '23

03 May '23

Hi folks, I've published the Big Trends chapter from my digital campaigning ebook as a standalone article: https://www.epolitics.com/2023/05/01/big-trends-in-digital-politics-and-adv… Ten relatively in-depth sections, not surprisingly led off by a new analysis of artificial intelligence and politics, but also including social media, political data, grassroots tech and a lot more. I hope it's a useful resource. This article is an excerpt from: http://www.epolitics.com/winning/ You can also check out my pieces earlier this year for Campaigns & Elections covering AI and social media in more detail: https://campaignsandelections.com/campaigntech/ai-and-political-campaigns-l… https://campaignsandelections.com/campaigntech/campaign-social-media-in-202… Happy to chat about these topics and more, if you have a project you're working on or if you want to toss around ideas. Enjoy! --cpd Colin Delany Epolitics.com -- digital strategy for politics and advocacy http://www.epolitics.com 202-422-4682 cpd(a)epolitics.com @epolitics

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