Ingesting Social Media at GESIS with Katrin Weller & Shawn Walker
Documenting Social Media Datasets #6: Feb 13, 12–1 PM ET
In the next installment of our semi-regular conversations about documenting social media datasets Katrin Weller and Shawn Walker will be discussing their recent experience developing practices for archiving social media data at GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
GESIS provides research infrastructure for the social sciences in Germany. This infrastructure includes services for data collection, analysis, archiving and instruction, and is currently also extended to support research with digital trace data. As part of this process the GESIS Data Archive has started to archive selected social media datasets. We will be discussing their work last summer ingesting social media datasets provided by Shawn into GESIS’ repository infrastructure, and their thinking about how access to such collections can be mediated.
Katrin leads the Social Analytics and Services team at GESIS that is responsible for new approaches to using social media in social science research. She is a leading voice in conversations about the role of social media and web data in scholarly communication and knowledge representation.
Shawn is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social & Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University, where he studies online resistance, disinformation, social media archiving, and the ethics and transparency of social media research.
While it’s not required reading, this recent paper from Katrin will give you a preview of what we’ll be discussing:
- Weller, K. and Kinder-Kurlanda, K. E. (2016). A manifesto for data sharing in social media research. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science, pages 166–172. ACM.
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