Janna Joceli C. de Omena is a PhD candidate who aims to conduct exploratory studies on connecting practices using digital methods and design social media research techniques. Their research focuses on three main areas: the politics of platforms, social media technicity, and digital objects as constitutive elements of platforms. They plan to apply theoretical, technical, and practical studies of social media platforms through case studies in fields like journalism, digital activism, and pop culture using tools from DMI Tools and MEDIALAB. The research group seeks members willing to learn digital methods and interested in platform studies to help with independent research, teamwork, and improving data-driven analysis through data sprints, a wiki, and publications.

1. Janna Joceli C. de Omena
PhD candidate at UT Aus1n I Portugal (FCSH)
@jannajoceli / thesocialplaAorms.wordpress.com

2. We aim to conduct exploratory studies on connecting practices using Digital
Methods (Rogers, 2013), and design social media research techniques.

3. i. The Politics of the Platforms [Gillespie, 2010; Bucher, 2012; 2013, Van Dijck, 2013; Helmond, 2015]
ii. Social Media Technicity [Omena, 2016]
iii. Digital objects as the constitutive
elements of platforms [Langlois and Elmer, 2013]

4. Van Dijck, 2013

5. i. The Politics of the Platforms [Gillespie, 2010; Bucher, 2012; 2013, Van Dijck, 2013; Helmond, 2015]
ii. Social Media Technicity [Omena, 2016]
§ Application Programming Interface
§ Algorithms
§ Research Strategies
iii. Digital objects as the constitutive elements of platforms
[Langlois and Elmer, 2013]
(Rieder, B. 2015)

6. i. The Politics of the Platforms [Gillespie, 2010; Bucher, 2012; 2013, Van Dijck, 2013; Helmond, 201
Moderation of Content

7. Social Media APIs: What to Look for?
History
Understanding the philosophy and policy
Identifying new products built + purchased by the platform
Common practices
Management of connections
Users practices
Functions
Call frequency governance
How far back in time data is made accessible?
Content moderation
Methodological issues
Data detail + Platform changes + Data reliability
Quality and representativeness of a sample
What type of data it is possible to collect?
How about lurkers?
Legal and Ethical issues
Informed consent x Anonymization
Default policy
Omena, J. 2016

9. [Fundamental Pillars]
The Politics of the Platforms [Gillespie, 2010; Bucher, 2012; 2013, Van Dijck, 2013; Helmond, 2015]
Social Media Technicity [Omena, 2016]
[Main Objective]
We aim to conduct exploratory studies on connecting practices
using Digital Methods (Rogers, 2013), and design social media
research techniques.
[Tools and Software]
DMI Tools and MÉDIALAB - SciencesPo Tools
[Fields]
Journalism (Prof. Antonio Granado)
Pop Culture (Prof. Jorge Rosa)
Digital Activism ( ? )

10. [General Tasks]
§ Apply theoretical, technical and practical studies on social
media platforms through short case studies
§ Conduct exploratory studies taking on board Journalism,
Digital Activism, and Pop Culture as the main fields, by using
digital methods
§ Promote closed and open workshops (data sprints) among
these subjects
§ Create and maintain a Wiki with the intention to share our
learning process and findings
§ Publish results and findings in high-quality journals

11. Pla$orms, Time Range,
Data Details
What is the data journalism
debate on social media
plaAorms?
Facebook; 2012-2015;
» groups: Jornalismo de Dados,
Jornalismo e Dados, Data-Driven
Journalism, Introduc1on to
Infographics
» Pages like network: Data-Driven
Journalism, Data Journalism Blog and
pages of journalists
Instagram; 2010- March 2016
» media and users info retrieval based
on: #ddj #datajournalism
#jornalismodedados #dataviz
Twi9er; March and April 2016
» media and users info retrieval based
on: #dataviz #panamapapers #ddj
#datajournalism #jornalismodedados

12. [Contributions]
§ Research group
specialized in social
platforms and digital
methods
§ Pioneer (and also
demanded) work
§ Data Sprints
§ Improvement of data-
driven / device-driven
analysis (Wiki/Papers/
Conferences)
API Ecosystem (Omena, J. 2016)

13. [What we expect from
a S M A R T member?]
§ Willingness to learn and
evolve data processing
techniques and digital
methods
§ Be interested in platforms
studies, software studies or
Journalism or Digital activism
or Pop Culture
§ Commitment and ability to
meet the delivery deadlines
§ Capacity for independent
research
(8 hours per week)
§ Team Work Skills
§ Be responsive to feedback
(give/receive)

14. i. The Politics of the Platforms [Gillespie, 2010; Bucher, 2012; 2013, Van Dijck, 2013; Helmond, 201
Want to be part of S M A R T ?

15. Janna Joceli Jorge Rosa António Granado Manuel Bogalheiro
? ?
Sara Tranquada Ariane Paiva

16. Janna Joceli C. de Omena
@jannajoceli / thesocialplaAorms.wordpress.com