HI Mel- It really depends on what level students you are teaching, I think. So do you want to teach them Python and (or) R? Or maybe use NodeXL? https://www.smrfoundation.org/ <https://www.smrfoundation.org/> Although it’s a bit old by now, I really liked Nathan Yau’s “Visualize This” (book) http://flowingdata.com/books/ <http://flowingdata.com/books/> It covered data collection as well as visualization (although not just social data). I assume you’re looking for less hard-core approaches that don’t involve teaching programming (I find rolling my own a good approach long-term since things change so much all the time). -Nat --------------------------- Nathaniel Poor, PhD http://github.com/natpoor <http://github.com/natpoor> http://natpoor.blogspot.com <http://natpoor.blogspot.com/> http://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/ <http://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/> http://www.underwood-institute.org <http://underwood-institute.org/>
On Jun 1, 2018, at 8:44 AM, Mel Stanfill <mstanfill@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I am teaching a social media research class in the fall and I’m looking for suggestions for tools I should teach my students. Right now, they’re all collecting and analyzing tweets and Facebook memes and whatever else by hand, and I want to diversify the things they know how to do with some technological options.
Apologies if this has been asked recently--the listserv archive is not the most searchable thing. Also, I suspect some tools have recently broken given shifts around privacy.
I’m mostly platform agnostic right now—I’ll look at what the options are and work backwards from there to which ones I want to teach. What can you recommend?
I’m happy to compile the suggestions and share with the list.
Thanks,
Mel Stanfill, PhD Assistant Professor Texts & Technology / Digital Media University of Central Florida http://www.melstanfill.com
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