Hello, Internet Researchers! We would like to invite you to join the newly-formed Discord Academic Research Community (D/ARC) – a supportive network for anyone studying Discord communities, platforms, and cultures. Our rapidly-growing community of 100+ scholars and researchers actively maintains a number of resources, including: * A curated Zotero library of Discord literature and tools * Notifications about relevant CFPs and new research * A program of live workshops on new methods and tools, as well as regular research check-ins Join the D/ARC Discord server (and share the invite link): https://darcmode.org/invite We’re also excited to announce our first virtual workshop “Working with Networked Discord Data”, occurring on 4 February 2022, at 6pm EST. In this beginner-friendly, one-hour session, we will walk attendees through scraping and analyzing public Discord server data with **no coding required.** Attendees will learn how to: * Scrape large volumes of server metadata (for potentially thousands of Discord communities) * Analyze trends and server activity using a range of analysis tools * Visualize network data to explore broader trends and patterns *Graduate students, independent and early-career scholars are especially welcome!* To find out more and follow the D/ARC online, visit: https://darcmode.org https://twitter.com/darc_mode<http://www.twitter.com/darc_mode> <3 The D/ARC Mods