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“…[T]racing the spread of arguments, rumours, or positions
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![– Richard Rogers, “Political Research in the Digital Age”, International
Public Policy Review, 2014
“[Digital methods] refers to repurposing online devices
and platforms (such as Google searches, Facebook and
Wikipedia) for social and political research that would often
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![– Richard Rogers, “Political Research in the Digital Age”, International
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imagination about research opportunities that exist in online
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Doing Social and Political Research in a Digital Age: An Introduction to Digital Methods
The document discusses the use of digital methods for social and political research, emphasizing the transformation of traditional methodologies in response to the digital age. It highlights various techniques for analyzing online platforms, such as web hyperlink analysis, social media scrutiny, and issue mapping to better understand political dynamics. Key resources and case studies illustrate the potential of digital tools for uncovering networked interactions and recruitment strategies among political groups.
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- 1. Doing Social andPolitical Research in a Digital Age: National Center of Competence in Research: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century 5 November 2015, Zürich, Switzerland Liliana Bounegru | lilianabounegru.org | @bb_liliana An Introduction to Digital Methods
- 3. An introduction todigital methods for social and political research 1. What are digital methods?! 2. How to use digital methods for social and political research! 3. Digital methods resources
- 4. An introduction todigital methods for social and political research 1. What are digital methods?! 2. How to use digital methods for social and political research! 3. Digital methods resources
- 5. Situated within currentdebates about the digitisation of social research
- 6. - Duncan J.Watts, “A twenty-first century science,” Nature, 2007 “Data about Internet-based communication and interactivity could revolutionise our understanding of collective human behaviour.” !
- 7. – David Lazeret al., “Computational Social Science”, Science, 2009 “…[T]racing the spread of arguments, rumours, or positions about political and other issues in the blogosphere, as well as the behaviour of individuals ‘surfing’ the Internet, where the concerns of an electorate become visible in the searches they conduct.”
- 8. –Savage M. &Burrows, R. (2007). “The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology”, Sociology “…In an age of knowing capitalism, sociologists have not adequately thought about the challenges posed to their expertise by the proliferation of ‘social’ transactional data which are now routinely collected, processed and analysed by a wide variety of private and public institutions”
- 9. –Richard Rogers (2013).Digital Methods. MIT Press “Google envy”: “the capacity of search engine companies and social networking sites to collect data that approximates both the type and the scale social scientists would like to generate themselves”
- 10. Digital methods takeup the challenge of rethinking the methodological repertoires of social and political research by creatively engaging with digital environments and their devices
- 11. – Richard Rogers,“Political Research in the Digital Age”, International Public Policy Review, 2014 “[Digital methods] refers to repurposing online devices and platforms (such as Google searches, Facebook and Wikipedia) for social and political research that would often have been otherwise improbable.”
- 12. – Richard Rogers,“Political Research in the Digital Age”, International Public Policy Review, 2014 “[Digital methods] encourage a sociological outlook or imagination about research opportunities that exist in online culture by following the medium rather than asking it to do one’s disciplinary bidding.”
- 13. –Noortje Marres, “Re-distributingmethods - digital social research as participatory research,” 2011 “This approach accords to digital devices, search engines chief among them, the capacity to generate potentially new methods of social research.”
- 14. – Richard Rogers,“Political Research in the Digital Age”, International Public Policy Review, 2014
- 15. Digital methods are… ! (1) an approach to studying social and political issues online (“issue mapping”, “controversy mapping”, “digital STS”) ! (2) an approach to the study of digital platforms to makes visible the method and information politics of digital devices ! (3) a contribution to the methodological repertoire of social and Internet studies and way to reflect on the politics of methods of these disciplines
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- 18. Rogers, R. (2013)Digital Methods. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- 19. DMI Summer School(2012)
- 20. Digital Methods Initiative(2014) DMI Tools.! Available at: http://tools.digitalmethods.net
- 21. EMAPS (2014) “Climaps:A Global Issue Atlas of Climate Change Adaptation”! Available at: http://climaps.org/
- 22. An introduction todigital methods for social and political research 1. What are digital methods?! 2. How to use digital methods for social and political research! 3. Digital methods resources
- 23. Rogers, R. &Kok, S. (2015)
- 24. Three methods and someexamples
- 25. Rogers, R. &Kok, S. (2015)
- 26. Rogers, R. &Kok, S. (2015)
- 27. Method 1: ! Webhyperlink analysis to study issue networks and politics of association!
- 28. Project: ! Right-Wing Formationsin Europe and Their Counter-Measures: An Online Mapping
- 29. The Guardian (2013)“The rise of far right parties across Europe is a chilling echo of the 1930s”. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/15/far-right-threat-europe-integration
- 30. Huffington Post (2014)“Sudden Rise of Far Right Groups in EU Parliament Rings Alarm Bells Across Europe”. Available at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elinadav-heymann/sudden-rise-of-far-right- _b_5512961.html
- 31. New York Times(2014) “Populist Party Gaining Muscle to Push Britain to the Right”. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/world/europe/populist-party-gaining-muscle-to-push- britain-to-the-right.html
- 32. What kinds ofissues are most active amongst far right groups?
- 33. How are farright extremist groups connected to populist right and other right wing groups online?
- 34. What are therecruitment methods of far right groups?
- 35. Are current counter-measuresproving effective?
- 36. Profiles for 13European countries.
- 37. Method! 1. Compile listsof links per country with expert input 2. Hyperlink analysis with the Issue Crawler 3. Study issues and actors in resulting networks
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- 39. Marres, N. &Rogers, R. (2005) “Recipe for tracing the fate of issues and their publics on the Web”. Making Things Public. Latour, B. & Weibel P. (eds). MIT Press.
- 40. “A software toolthat locates and visualizes networks on the web”
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- 46. Greece: blood andsoil and organic markets
- 47. Rogers, R. etal (2013) “Right-Wing Formations in Europe and Their Counter-Measures: An Online Mapping”. Digital Methods Initiative. https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/RightWingPopulismStudy
- 49. Hungary: horse andyurt recruitment festivals
- 50. Rogers, R. etal (2013) “Right-Wing Formations in Europe and Their Counter-Measures: An Online Mapping”. Digital Methods Initiative. https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/RightWingPopulismStudy
- 52. Taking back theyurt?
- 53. Findings Right-wing politics inthe North is animated by Islamophobia while the old right is still active in the South. ! New issues (e.g. environment, anti-globalisation and rights), principles and recruitment techniques animate right wing politics in Europe today. Counter-measures are often outdated (mismatch between activities of the right and measures to counter them). !
- 54. Rogers, R. &Kok, S. (2015)
- 55. Rogers, R. &Kok, S. (2015)
- 56. Method 2: ! Facebookanalysis to study issue formations and dynamics
- 57. Project 2: ! Mappingcounter-Jihadist (anti-Islamist) groups on social media
- 58. The Guardian (2012)“Far-right anti-Muslim network on rise globally as Breivik trial opens”. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/14/breivik-trial-norway-mass-murderer
- 59. Hope Not Hate(2012) “Counter-Jihad Report”. Available at: http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/counter-jihad/
- 60. Are different Counter-Jihadistgroups in Europe connected? If so how?
- 61. Methods! ! 1. Set upFacebook research account ! 2. Submit request to join Facebook groups of interest making research intentions known in the request ! 3. Use the Netvizz application to extract (anonymised) user activity data across groups
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- 63. Rieder, B. (2013).Studying Facebook via data extraction: the Netvizz application. In WebSci '13 Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference (pp. 346-355). New York: ACM.
- 64. “Netvizz is atool that extracts data from different sections of the Facebook platform (personal profile, groups, pages) for research purposes.”
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- 66. Digital Methods Initiative.“Counter-Jihadist Networks: Mapping the Connections Between Facebook Groups in Europe.”
- 67. Digital Methods Initiative.“Counter-Jihadist Networks: Mapping the Connections Between Facebook Groups in Europe.”
- 68. Findings Facebook is animportant medium for extremist groups. ! Three main clusters based on geographical proximity. ! European Counter-Jihadist groups are networked and transnational. ! Most engaged with content is meme-like.
- 69. Who are thenew leaders?
- 71. Findings! ! Offline leaders areactive on Facebook. ! There are also new emerging online leaders (Facebook group administrators). ! New technique for identifying online leaders.
- 72. Rogers, R. &Kok, S. (2015)
- 73. Rogers, R. &Kok, S. (2015)
- 74. Method 3: ! Twitteranalysis to study issue networks and content engagement
- 75. Building a tweetcollection Rogers, R. & Bounegru, L. (2015)
- 76. Types of analysis Rogers,R. & Bounegru, L. (2015)
- 77. “The Twitter Captureand Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT) captures tweets and allows for multiple analyses (hashtags, mentions, users, search, ...).” Tool
- 78. Borra, E. &Rieder, B. (2014) “Programmed method: developing a toolset for capturing and analyzing tweets”. Aslib Journal of Information Management. Vol. 66 No. 3: 262-278.
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- 81. Types of analysis Rogers,R. & Bounegru, L. (2015)
- 82. Three techniques and someexamples
- 83. Types of analysis Rogers,R. & Bounegru, L. (2015)
- 84. Types of analysis Rogers,R. & Bounegru, L. (2015)
- 85. Project: ! Climaps: AGlobal Issue Atlas of Climate Change Adaptation
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- 87. Can we readthe current state of climate action and adaptation from climate change debates on Twitter?
- 88. Methods! ! 1. Create collectionof tweets containing climate change-related hashtags with TCAT ! 2. Extract hashtag co-occurence network file from TCAT and import it into network analysis software to compute clustering and other metrics. ! 3. Manually analyse and classify the resulting hashtag clusters.
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- 90. “Gephi is aninteractive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs.”
- 91. Bastian M., HeymannS., Jacomy M. (2009). “Gephi: an open source software for exploring and manipulating networks.” International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.
- 92.
- 93. Hashtags as embeddedclimate issues (co-hashtag analysis) EMAPS (2014) “Climaps: A Global Issue Atlas of Climate Change Adaptation”! Available at: http://climaps.org/
- 94. Wired Italia (2014)“Cambiamenti del clima: 20 anni di conferenze”. March 2014. No. 60.
- 95. Wired Italia (2014)“Beautiful Information, in mostra le migliori infografiche di Wired”. Available at: http://www.wired.it/attualita/media/2014/03/04/beautiful-information-infografiche-wired/
- 96. Wired Italia (2014)“Beautiful Information, in mostra le migliori infografiche di Wired”. Available at: http://www.wired.it/attualita/media/2014/03/04/beautiful-information-infografiche-wired/
- 97. Types of analysis Rogers,R. & Bounegru, L. (2015)
- 98. Project: ! The GlobalHealth and Development Networks in Europe: An Online Mapping
- 99. How is expertisedefined across networks and do different networks recognise the same experts?
- 100. Methods! ! 1. Create twocollections of tweets around global health and development issues: (1) hashtag- based and (2) user-based with TCAT ! 2. Extract ‘top most mentioned users’ files from TCAT and map them in a scatterplot. ! 3. Manually analyse the scatterplot to understand shared and distinct experts for the two networks.
- 101. 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 20 40 6080 100 120 140 160 addthis africandevjobs agrobiodiverse aiddata allafrica americares anantbhan bashh_uk bbcnews bbcr4today bbcradio4 bbsrc bennett123123 billgates bmz_bund camdiary ccghr cdcglobal cfi_accion cfigueres cgap cgdev cgiar cgiarclimate chipublib ciat_ cimmyt climdevjournal cnrs conversationuk coursera csis danrcorry decappeal dev_progress devex devpolicy dfid_uk dndi_hq drgregmartinecdpm epfl equitylist euractiv_fr faonews fogarty_nih forbes fordfoundation fp2p francetim futurelearn gatesfoundation gavialliance gaviseth gchallenges gdndevelopment ghjournal girleffect globaldev globaldevlab globalfund globalfundnews globalhealth globalinnovfund gquaggiotto guardian guardiangdp harvardhsph helenclarkundp huffingtonpost huffpostimpact ics_uk idealist ids_uk ifadnews ifmsa ifpri ihme_uw ilonakickbusch ilri independent info_tghn intldogooder intrahealth ippf irenekhan jfishergh jnjglobalhealth johninnescentre jonhutson journagrants julio_frenk juxtamagazine kaiserfamfound kofiannan l_haddad lancetgh lfeatherstone livuninews lizfordguardian mathiasbonk medicres melindagates mghfc mshhealthimpact mysgul ncdfreenerdyev nextbillion nih nprglobalhealth nprnewsnytimes odi_development oecd_centre onecampaign oxfam pathtweets peacecorpspeterasinger pezzapezzi phat_controller picardonhealth pih plus_socialgood psiimpact rajshah reuters rockefellerfdn rohanmalik_ey rollbackmalaria runijmegen sandrodemaio scidevnet sciencemagazine seiresearch sharethis sida sightsavers statedept stevedavispath stm_uutiset techchange telegraph theeconomist thelancet timeshighered timlaheymd tonysangle uc_newsroom ucanr ucberkeley ucirvine ucla uclanewsroom ucriverside ucsf ukcds un un_women unaids undp unfpa unicef unuwider usaid usaidgh uwglobalhealth washingtonpost wellcometrust wfp who whydev wle_cgiar worldbank wsj wustlmedschool youtube lowerhigher lowerhigher Do the Gates grantees and the field recognise the same experts? @Mention analysis to identify expertise
- 102. Types of analysis Rogers,R. & Bounegru, L. (2015)
- 103. Project: ! The GlobalHealth and Development Networks in Europe: An Online Mapping
- 104. What content animatesthe global health and development space on Twitter?
- 105. Methods! ! 1. Create hashtag-basedcollection of tweets around global health and development issues. ! 2. Extract daily retweet frequency file from TCAT and visualise it. ! 3. Manually analyse the content of the most retweeted tweets to get a grasp of the content that animates the issue space.
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Apply for the @WorldBank Young Professionals Program: http://t.co/4Tj… 62 @WorldBank: Are you a young professional interested in #globaldev? Apply for the @WorldBank Young Professionals Program: http://t.co/4Tj… 65 @medstudent_blog: Map of the world showing which disease is most likely to kill you depending on where you live #globalhealth http://t.c… 42 @nprGlobalHealth: Doctors Aren't Sure How To Stop Africa's Deadliest #Ebola Outbreak http://t.co/d13hSvefoS @nprnews http://t.co/DkWg1L8… 106 @WorldBank: Are you a young professional interested in #globaldev? Apply for the @WorldBank Young Professionals Program: http://t.co/4Tj… 84 @WorldBank: Are you a young professional interested in #globaldev? Apply for the @WorldBank Young Professionals Program: http://t.co/4Tj… 67 @WorldBank: Are you a young professional interested in #globaldev? Apply for the @WorldBank Young Professionals Program: http://t.co/4Tj… 93 @guardian: Empowering Indian women through employment http://t.co/DpEKWtlYNC #globaldev #women #india 48 @WorldBank: Are you a young professional interested in #globaldev? Apply for the @WorldBank Young Professionals Program: http://t.co/4Tj… 65 Thanks @lfeatherstone @DFID_UK for hearing our call to put people with disabilities #InThePicture of #globaldev. Now time for action! 97 @Cristina_Jaen: Mapa de enfermedad moales según países http://t.co/yUoj5zvMlS http://t.co/R3B7sRSc4a #globalhealth 91 @phat_controller: World Map of Killer Diseases using WHO stats http://t.co/rvyEg22ACV http://t.co/EbZhPTt0hi #globaldev #globalhealth 73 @phat_controller: Germany Grows No Coffee yet earns more in coffee expos than all Africa's coffee growers combined. #Globaldev http://… 106 @phat_controller: Germany Grows No Coffee yet earns more in coffee expos than all Africa's coffee growers combined. #Globaldev http://… 71 @Oxfam: The #BRICS Development Bank: Why the world’s newest global bank must fight povey & inequality http://t.co/NJcSO4w0D6 #globaldev 33 @RodSweet1: A simple tower designed to pull water out of thin air. http://t.co/HHSVtZGwgy #ethiopia #globaldev #sustainability http://t.… 18 @USAID: #GenderEquality & female empower- ment are key to effective & sustainable #globaldev outcomes: http://t.co/2b5ukdhzLn https://t.co… 32 @RodSweet1: A simple tower designed to harvest water from thin air. http://t.co/HHSVtZGwgy #ethiopia #globaldev #sustainability http://t… 20 @JAMA_current: MT @JAMADerm #Yaws: Renewed Hope for Eradication http://t.co/xP8v0fC39P #globalhealth #tropicaldisease #treponema http://… 16 @WorldBankWater: The World Water Dev Repo delves into #water and #energy: http://t.co/TlT5bEHWl3 #wwweek #globaldev http://t.co/q… 17 @jonhutson: Ebola and great ape trafficking: A dangerous connection http://t.co/kNNU8PLRPn #globalhealth 23 @Oxfam: The new #BRICS bank should offer a new vision for development not more of the same http://t.co/4tjjbRYdDk #globaldev 24 @DrFriedenCDC: The current #Ebola outbreak in W. Africa is proof of the impoance of #GlobalHealthSecurity: http://t.co/6UdTPYMStn 33 @GdnDevelopment: Can the world respond to only one major disaster at a time? http://t.co/IqlCg0Hysb #globaldev 20 @GdnDevelopment: QUIZ: How well do you know the Millennium Development Goals?http://t.co/ERxPA3JIlr #globaldev #MDGMomentum http://t.co/… 50 @AALiberia: #Ebola is not just a health issue it's a #gender issue. #EbolaOutbreak #Liberia #globalhealth #globaldev http://t.co/cUEm7v… 47 @odi_development: The death toll in #Syria keeps rising but media interest is waning. See our infographic. #GlobalDev #Humanitarian http… 69 @GuardianGDP: A beginner’s guide to infograph- ics and data visualisation for NGOs http://t.co/Eiq4tp4lRn #globaldev http://t.co/jGoaTbuB2n 29 @odi_development: As #Syria refugees reach 3 million http://t.co/QDs4E50kC6 here is our media coverage graph #GlobalDev #Aid #Jordan htt… 40 @LizFordGuardian: Calling all students. Write us 250 words on climate change and we'll publish the best http://t.co/islQBK0l7Y #globaldev 29 @GdnDevelopment: Is it time to retire the term development? Language matters argues Deborah Doane http://t.co/0a186Awqeb #globaldev @do… 22 @SandroDemaio: I'll be talking #globalhealth equity & the structural causes of disease - tomorrow at #GHC #Sydney. #auspol http://t… 18 @SandroDemaio: ""Poor people should not get poor solutions"" - urban planning & #globalhealth at #GHC2014. @exerciseworks @HelenClarkUNDP … 20 @GuardianGDP: Why gender disaster data matters: ‘In some villages all the dead were women’ http://t.co/y0PgEPk2iZ #globaldev 27 @sciencemagazine: Diseases that cause the most burden don't get the most intl aid http://t.co/2dL21D6IXk #globalhealth http://t.co/QmR1A… 36 @dev_progress: #Brazil has massively and sustainably increased electricity provision. Read more: http://t.co/VAsAT4KdUB #GlobalDev htt… 27 @LizFordGuardian: Almost half of child deaths occur in first month of life UN estimates @UNICEF http://t.co/tltAkuUQRe #globaldev 28 @sciencemagazine: The state of #globalhealth in http://t.co/19KaUkmuke #free http://t.co/yZfPQtr7bb 47 @JNJGlobalHealth: .@Kathy_Calvin reminds us we ALL have a role in advancing #gender equality #2030Now #HeForShe #MDG456Live http://t.co/… 21 @BrittanyHume: 700m women today--1 in 5 globally--were married as children. It's a #globalhealth + #humanrights epidemic @FordFoundation… 92 @rajshah: Just launched new @GlobalInnovFund @ #MDGCountdown event: $200 million for #innovation in #globaldev solutions http://t.co/CIt… 16 @USAID: FACT: $1 of $3 spent on #globaldev is lost due 2 recurrent crisis. Help us break the cycle & #EndPovey. #GlobalResilience @grp… 22 @ONECampaign: 9 tips for using Twitter to tap into the #globaldev community http://t.co/8FPcb3d5qi http://t.co/oKoZX9y5Zh 25 @AnantBhan: A sobering dataset which demonstrates why #Africa is struggling w/ the spread of #Ebola #healthsystems #globalhealth http://… 26 @julio_frenk: The response to the #Ebola crisis calls into question the institutional architecture for #globalhealth cooperation. http:/… 20 @UNICEF: Check out our new interactive data on #malnutrition http://t.co/nPOY1ZVn0X @UNICEFdata #globaldev 70 @GlobalDevLab: How can #designthinking help in #fightingebola? @EbolaGC workshop today using ideas & creativity to improve care through … 23 @CGDev: Longer term lesson from #Ebola epidemic: we need to be willing to spend more on #globalhealth says @owenbarder: http://t.co/YGr… 14 @Sida: The #Ebola outbreak in graphics by @TheEconomist http://t.co/zRNMIseoir http://t.co/KsK80RfJZP #GlobalDev 39 @WorldBank: What can satellites do for #globaldev? Mapping water in #Zambia forest loss in #Liberia: http://t.co/lhvBZpr20B http://t.c… 63 @AnantBhan: Nurses-facing the brunt of the #Ebola epidemic-- overworked underpaid most at risk #globalhealth #nursing http://t.co/R1Dt… 16 @GFI_Tweets: How much money has your country lost in #IllicitFlows? Find out here: http://t.co/q47EwfJ65N #GlobalDev http://t.co/oMsdx1T… 25 @Pezzapezzi: Contagiousness & deadliness of #ebola compared to other infectious diseases http://t.co/ekBh17j6lK #globalhealth http://t.c… 22 @AmeriCares: Almost half the word lives on less than $2.50/day - Every day we confront the #GlobalHealth consequences of povey. http:/… 19 @GFI_Tweets: How much has your country lost in #IllicitFlows? Find out here: http://t.co/q47EwfJ65N #GlobalDev http://t.co/u1wYOZeeYx 15 @gavi: MT @resultsuk: Need some proof that #VaccinesWork? Check out this infographic #globalhealth http://t.co/YtdPXcdpWV 15 @StanfordMed: How researchers are exploiting insect microbiomes to curb malaria and dengue: http://t.co/mOP65TpbxJ #globalhealth 13 user: content of the tweet, content of the tweet, content of the tweet content of the tweet RE-TWEET FREQUENCE NUMBER user: content of the tweet, content of the tweet, content of the tweet content of the tweet RE-TWEET FREQUENCE NUMBER user: content of the tweet, content of the tweet, content of the tweet content of the tweet HIGH RE-TWEET FREQUENCE NUMBER (between 106-max- and 90) More active user: content of the tweet, content of the tweet, content of the tweet content of the tweet RE-TWEET FREQUENCE NUMBER same tweet Networked stories: What stories circulate best in the global health and development space? Retweet analysis to tell story over time Rogers, R. & Bounegru, L. (2015) “The Global Health and Development Issue Space in Europe: Mapping the Network”
- 107. http://t.co/4Tj… 67 @WorldBank: Are youa young professional nterested in #globaldev? Apply for the @WorldBank Young Professionals Program: http://t.co/4Tj… 93 @guardian: Empowering Indian women through employment http://t.co/DpEKWtlYNC #globaldev #women #india 48 @WorldBank: Are you a young professional nterested in #globaldev? Apply for the @WorldBank Young Professionals Program: http://t.co/4Tj… 65 Thanks @lfeatherstone @DFID_UK for hearing our call to put people with disabilities #InThePicture of #globaldev. Now time for action! 97 @Cristina_Jaen: Mapa de enfermedad moales según países http://t.co/yUoj5zvMlS http://t.co/R3B7sRSc4a #globalhealth 91 @phat_controller: World Map of Killer Diseases using WHO stats http://t.co/rvyEg22ACV http://t.co/EbZhPTt0hi #globaldev #globalhealth 73 @phat_controller: Germany Grows No Coffee yet earns more in coffee expos than all Africa's coffee growers combined. #Globaldev http://… 106 @phat_controller: Germany Grows No Coffee yet earns more in coffee expos than all Africa's coffee growers combined. #Globaldev http://… 71 @Oxfam: The #BRICS Development Bank: Why he world’s newest global bank must fight povey & inequality http://t.co/NJcSO4w0D6 #globaldev 33 32 @RodSweet1: A simple tower designed to harvest water from thin air. http://t.co/HHSVtZGwgy #ethiopia #globaldev #sustainability http://t… 20 @JAMA_current: MT @JAMADerm #Yaws: Renewed Hope for Eradication http://t.co/xP8v0fC39P #globalhealth #tropicaldisease #treponema http://… 16 @WorldBankWater: The World Water Dev Repo delves into #water and #energy: http://t.co/TlT5bEHWl3 #wwweek #globaldev http://t.co/q… 17 @jonhutson: Ebola and great ape trafficking: A dangerous connection http://t.co/kNNU8PLRPn #globalhealth 23 @Oxfam: The new #BRICS bank should offer a new vision for development not more of the same http://t.co/4tjjbRYdDk #globaldev 24 @DrFriedenCDC: The current #Ebola outbreak in W. Africa is proof of the impoance of #GlobalHealthSecurity: http://t.co/6UdTPYMStn 33 @GdnDevelopment: Can the world respond to only one major disaster at a time? http://t.co/IqlCg0Hysb #globaldev 20 @GdnDevelopment: QUIZ: How well do you know the Millennium Development Goals?http://t.co/ERxPA3JIlr #globaldev #MDGMomentum http://t.co/… 50 @AALiberia: #Ebola is not just a health issue it's a #gender issue. #EbolaOutbreak #Liberia #globalhealth #globaldev http://t.co/cUEm7v… 47 http://t.co/jGoaTbuB2n 29 @odi_development: As #Syria refugees reach 3 million http://t.co/QDs4E50kC6 here is our media coverage graph #GlobalDev #Aid #Jordan htt… 40 @LizFordGuardian: Calling all students. Write us 250 words on climate change and we'll publish the best http://t.co/islQBK0l7Y #globaldev 29 @GdnDevelopment: Is it time to retire the term development? Language matters argues Deborah Doane http://t.co/0a186Awqeb #globaldev @do… 22 @SandroDemaio: I'll be talking #globalhealth equity & the structural causes of disease - tomorrow at #GHC #Sydney. #auspol http://t… 18 @SandroDemaio: ""Poor people should not get poor solutions"" - urban planning & #globalhealth at #GHC2014. @exerciseworks @HelenClarkUNDP … 20 @GuardianGDP: Why gender disaster data matters: ‘In some villages all the dead were women’ http://t.co/y0PgEPk2iZ #globaldev 27 @sciencemagazine: Diseases that cause the most burden don't get the most intl aid http://t.co/2dL21D6IXk #globalhealth http://t.co/QmR1A… 36 @dev_progress: #Brazil has massively and sustainably increased electricity provision. Read more: http://t.co/VAsAT4KdUB #GlobalDev htt… 27 @LizFordGuardian: Almost half of child deaths occur in first month of life UN estimates @UNICEF http://t.co/tltAkuUQRe #globaldev 28 21 @BrittanyHume: 700m women today--1 in 5 globally--were married as children. It's a #globalhealth + #humanrights epidemic @FordFoundation… 92 @rajshah: Just launched new @GlobalInnovFund @ #MDGCountdown event: $200 million for #innovation in #globaldev solutions http://t.co/CIt… 16 @USAID: FACT: $1 of $3 spent on #globaldev is lost due 2 recurrent crisis. Help us break the cycle & #EndPovey. #GlobalResilience @grp… 22 @ONECampaign: 9 tips for using Twitter to tap into the #globaldev community http://t.co/8FPcb3d5qi http://t.co/oKoZX9y5Zh 25 @AnantBhan: A sobering dataset which demonstrates why #Africa is struggling w/ the spread of #Ebola #healthsystems #globalhealth http://… 26 @julio_frenk: The response to the #Ebola crisis calls into question the institutional architecture for #globalhealth cooperation. http:/… 20 @UNICEF: Check out our new interactive data on #malnutrition http://t.co/nPOY1ZVn0X @UNICEFdata #globaldev 70 @GlobalDevLab: How can #designthinking help in #fightingebola? @EbolaGC workshop today using ideas & creativity to improve care through … 23 @CGDev: Longer term lesson from #Ebola epidemic: we need to be willing to spend more on #globalhealth says @owenbarder: http://t.co/YGr… 14 63 @AnantBhan: Nurses-facing the brunt of the #Ebola epidemic-- overworked underpaid most risk #globalhealth #nursing http://t.co/R1Dt… 16 @GFI_Tweets: How much money has your country lost in #IllicitFlows? Find out here: http://t.co/q47EwfJ65N #GlobalDev http://t.co/oMsdx1T… 25 @Pezzapezzi: Contagiousness & deadliness of #ebola compared to other infectious diseases http://t.co/ekBh17j6lK #globalhealth http://t.c… 22 @AmeriCares: Almost half the word lives on les than $2.50/day - Every day we confront the #GlobalHealth consequences of povey. http:/… 19 @GFI_Tweets: How much has your country lost in #IllicitFlows? Find out here: http://t.co/q47EwfJ65N #GlobalDev http://t.co/u1wYOZeeYx 15 @gavi: MT @resultsuk: Need some proof that #VaccinesWork? Check out this infographic #globalhealth http://t.co/YtdPXcdpWV 15 @StanfordMed: How researchers are exploiting insect microbiomes to curb malaria and dengu http://t.co/mOP65TpbxJ #globalhealth 13 user: content of the tweet, content of the tweet, content of the tweet content of the tweet RE-TWEET FREQUENCE NUMBER user: content of the tweet, content of the tweet, content of the tweet content of the tweet RE-TWEET FREQUENCE NUMBER user: content of the tweet, content of the tweet, content of the tweet content of the tweet HIGH RE-TWEET FREQUENCE NUMBER (between 106-max- and 90) More active user: content of the tweet, content of the tweet, content of the tweet content of the tweet RE-TWEET FREQUENCE NUMBER same tweet Networked stories: What stories circulate best in the global health and development space? Rogers, R. & Bounegru, L. (2015) “The Global Health and Development Issue Space in Europe: Mapping the Network”
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- 109. How to usedigital methods for social and political research ! List of digital platforms and types of analyses that they can be repurposed for (illustrative rather than exhaustive) Illustrated three types of analysis through projects where they have been utilised Web hyperlink analysis to study issue networks and politics of association Facebook analysis to study issue formations and dynamics Twitter analysis to study issue networks and content engagement Provided a sketch of the methods and tools behind each form of analysis The Issue Crawler for hyperlink analysis and web network visualisation Netvizz for exaction of data from Facebook groups and pages as tabular and network files TCAT for data collection via the Twitter APIs and multiple network and statistical analyses Gephi for network analysis and visualisation
- 110. An introduction todigital methods for social and political research 1. What are digital methods?! 2. How to use digital methods for social and political research! 3. Digital methods resources
- 111. Digital Methods Initiative(2014) DMI Tools.! Available at: http://tools.digitalmethods.net
- 112. Sciences Po MediaLab (2014) “Tools we develop and tools we use”! Available at: http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/
- 113. Digital Methods Initiative(2015). Papers and Publications.! Available at: https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/PapersPublications
- 114. Issue Mapping Online(2015).! Available at: http://issuemapping.net/
- 115. Join us forDMI Winter Schools and Summer Schools!
- 116. DMI Winter School2016! https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2016
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- 118. ! Introduction the digitalmethods approach Some conceptual background How to do research with digital methods Key forms of analysis, projects and tools Additional resources ! What we learned
- 119. How might digitalmethods be useful in your own research?
- 120. Thank You! Liliana Bounegru| lilianabounegru.org | @bb_liliana