[Air-L] social media research tools?

[Gary Schecodnic]

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On Jun 1, 2018, 9:28 AM, at 9:28 AM, Yu Schuen <yu.shih.hsuan at gmail.com> wrote:
>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 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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