[Air-L] social media research tools?

[Nathaniel Poor]

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

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> On Jun 1, 2018, at 8:44 AM, Mel Stanfill <mstanfill at 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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