My research focuses on two complementary areas: 1) new forms of political participation emerging on social media platforms and 2) the related challenges of collecting, analyzing, and preserving data from social media platforms. This work examines how new forms of political participation are emerging on social media platforms through the analysis of social media posts surrounding social movements, protests, and elections. My work on social media methods also addresses gaps in our understanding about social m
Misinfo Weekly Podcast Research Interests Online resitance and social media use Holistic social media data collection methods Archiving social media data Ethics and transparancy of research using social media data Big data methods
In this project, we are developing an automated tool, “Inform Bot,” that researchers can use to create a public notice and trail of their data collection and research using Twitter data. The goal of this bot is twofold. First, to pilot a mechanism that provides systems of notice to users whose data is being collected in order to better understand the challenges of developing and implementing a transparency bot. Second, to better understand how users and researchers would interact with such a mechanism, when