Social Media & Politics Archive
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The Infoscape Research Lab investigates the political and cultural impact of digital code. Our projects investigate how user-generated content, tags, computer algorithms, formal languages, and data formats shape the contemporary social media landscape (Facebook, Youtube, blogs, etc). The lab develops new theories, methods, and tools to interrogate the complexities of networked culture. After three years of analyzing partisan blogging, election videos on Youtube, and political networking on Facebook, the lab is launching the Open Research Initiative – an effort to make our research data and tools public through the creative commons license. In the near future we plan to broaden our initiative to facilitate international partnerships and collaborations, providing researchers worldwide with a dynamic archive of networked politics.
For more information, please contact Greg Elmer, lab director at gelmer@ryerson.ca.
The open research initiative has organized our resources in four sections: Data, Scrapers, Analysis, and Visualizations. Move your mouse over each icon to read an explanation of its content. To access the resources, please sign up for an account.
Other Resources
The resources here originate from the Infoscape Lab, but we employ a variety of other tools in our research project. A few sites catalogue to new digital tools and methods. Below is a list of these resources. If you have any suggestions of resources to be added to this list, please email: fenwick-dot-mckelvey-at-ryerson-dot-ca.
