COMS 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Storify, Gephi, Social Movement Theory
1 Nov 2016
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Guest lecturer: mylynn felt qualitative findings #safestampede. Peaceful protest actions: social media"s affect on peaceful protest. Looked at twitter for initial information surrounding the support for #safestampede: large increase with initial push, moderate peak afterwards with controversy, died off shortly thereafter, campaign being challenged (eg. #safestampede into animals should feel safe too) A day of data: comparing three tools for capturing twitter-mediated voices. Those interested in qualitative research are not often academic. Academics are more focused on numbers (quantitative) Api program written to go within another program (eg. facebook messenger or games, within. Raw data actually cooked, multiple decisions were made to come up with this data, acknowledge all the factors that went into what you"re showing. Twitter created re-tweet function because their users were constantly adding rt and pasting tweet. Storify (primarily used for reporters, connected to various social media sites, api: enables cross-platform searches, limited to 1,000 posts.
