Practical Approaches to Social Media Research Now

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

4 – 5 p.m. on Zoom

Register here: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvdeisqz8tGtaUm_lIrZ1PcL_BSwJCGcpV

 

Social media offers rich terrain for academic research, and despite many claims to be working on methods of opening up access to data for researchers, social media companies like Twitter are making discovery and use of data more challenging and more expensive. Many scholars, including junior scholars, who use social media data in their research may soon see their projects halted. How do we get around this impasse? What does this mean for the future of scholarly work on social media?

 

Please join the GC Digital Fellows, GCDI, and the M.S. in Data Analysis and Visualization in welcoming Dr. Jo Lukito (UT Austin) for a conversation focused on practical strategies for researching social media today. The event will take place virtually on Zoom on May 3rd from 4 – 5pm ET. You can register for the event here. It is recommended that you come prepared with questions about your own social media-based projects!

 

Dr. Jo Lukito is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism and Media. She is also the Director of the Media & Democracy Data Cooperative and a Senior Faculty Research Affiliate for the Center for Media Engagement. Jo uses mixed methods and computational approaches to study political language in the hybrid media ecology, focusing especially on harmful digital content (e.g., mis/disinformation, hate speech) and public sphere across multiple social media. Jo’s work has been published in both peer-reviewed journals like Political Communication and Social Media + Society and has contributed to Wired, Vox, and Columbia Journalism Review.