[Air-L] Social Networking in everyday life

[Stuart Shulman]

Twitter or Facebook, you can do grounded theory, coding, measurement of of
inter-rater reliability and validity adjudication on the 2-week old
DiscoverText platform.

You can login with your Facebook credentials and start searching, scraping,
reviewing, and coding:

http://discovertext.com/defaultDT2.aspx

Over 200 users so far, and initial reviews are positive.

Some short how-to videos are online at:

http://www.screencast.com/users/stustu12/playlists/DiscoverText%20Tutorials#

or on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/texifter

Since scraping Facebook raises all sorts of ethical and IRB type questions,
this xtranormal animation portrays an ongoing debate in my house:

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7660891/

Part humorous escapade and part serious political philosophy.

~Stu