Hi Mel, I hope you find well, I am Cristian Ruiz and currently am involved in a project called SMART (It means Social Media Research Techniques), part of iNova Media Lab, NOVA/FCSH. A Lisbon based initiative of digital media research and development. As a quick advice to your goals I suggest to check the DMI (Digital Methods Initiative) Tools. For Facebook strongly recommended Netvizz and Twitter would be great if you could get access to T-Cat. Another great option for your students would be Netlytic, useful in many ways. An important thing to keep in mind when research with Digital Methods is to identify clearly the object desired to analyse, since social media have been shown that can contribute elements to different areas of sciences since geography to health sciences. It would define which is the best tool to use. I would like to share you finally a presentation I did for a data sprint project that we have been coordinating in SMART every year, since 2017: https://www.slideshare.net/CristianCamiloJimnez3/data-extraction-tools<https://www.slideshare.net/CristianCamiloJimnez3/data-extraction-tools> <https://www.slideshare.net/CristianCamiloJimnez3/data-extraction-tool>Try to follow Janna Jocelli's Slideshares and Bernhard Rieders ones, they are indeed best references in this field. Please feel free to contact me if you need any other reference or suggestion, I would be glad to help and also glad to know a bit more on the composition of your class. Best regards, -- Cristian Jiménez Ruiz @CristianCJRuiz M.a. Communication Sciences SMART Research Member iNovaMediaLab – NOVA/FCSH ________________________________ De: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> en nombre de Yu Schuen <yu.shih.hsuan@gmail.com> Enviado: viernes, 1 de junio de 2018 8:20 a.m. Para: Mel Stanfill Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Asunto: Re: [Air-L] social media research tools? Hello Mel, - Just a quick feedback. If quantitative for network analysis, take a look at *netvizz* (you can find the service through FB search engine; it produces network data with the group or the page id given.) You can use* Gephi *to demonstrate and visualize the page network data exported by netvizz. As far as I am concerned, this combination is relatively common for initial attempt. - Though not so relevant to tweets and facebook, recently I found a tool for LinkedIn network, socilab.com. LinkedIn member can look into their own, basic network metrics. In case this might be interested - for textual-visual annotation tool (memes, for example), I used to check the trial version of MAXQDA to go through threads of conversations in a huge facebook group. Shih-Hsuan Yu On 1 June 2018 at 14:44, 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 Mel Stanfill | Bringing Foucault to fandom since 2006.<http://www.melstanfill.com/> www.melstanfill.com Mel Stanfill . Assistant Professor Texts and Technology and Digital Media University of Central Florida

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Hi, I recommend Social Feed Manager <https://gwu-libraries.github.io/sfm-ui/> as well. It's useful mainly for collecting data, and then exporting to CSV or JSON for analysis. Best for Twitter, also has Flickr and Tumblr options. Also for Twitter, STACK <https://github.com/bitslabsyr/stack> is also useful for collection but requires more technical expertise to get going and maintain. We are developing a social media archive at ICPSR and would love to hear your ideas for how a social science archive could support you as you collect, prepare, analyze, and re-use social media data and teach students to use it as well. Here's info from a talk I just gave <http://wke.lt/w/s/FxK8k> about our plans. It focuses mainly on the technical infrastructure, but supporting data-driven instruction is a key ICPSR activity in addition to our data archives. Libby Hemphill Director, Resource Center for Minority Data <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/RCMD>, ICPSR <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/> Research Associate Professor, Institute for Social Research <http://home.isr.umich.edu/> Associate Professor, School of Information <https://www.si.umich.edu/> University of Michigan libbyh@umich.edu On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 1:25 PM Mel Stanfill <mstanfill@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

As promised, here's the compiled list of suggested social media research tools:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SdmoupAgtHtMy_SmnVtFFvGB7KzeUIVuA3Bf...

Happy to hear (and add) more ideas if you've got them.

Thanks to all for the suggestions!

Mel Stanfill, PhD Assistant Professor Texts & Technology / Digital Media University of Central Florida http://www.melstanfill.com

On Fri, 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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