Digital Methods, Networks & Technicity
This article seeks to contribute to the field of digital research by critically accounting for the relationship between hashtags and their forms of grammatization—the platform techno-materialization process of online activity.
Continue reading “Digital Methods for Hashtag Engagement Research”Hashtags Studies and related research approaches are commonly explored on Twitter, however, in this forthcoming article André Mintz, Elaine Rabello and myself introduce an approach for hashtag engagement research on Instagram. Our paper systematises approaches which have been explored in the context of two data Continue reading “Hashtags are not the whole message”
This post attempts to address very specific questions on the black market of automated engagement on Instagram, giving special attention to applications created to support the practice of botting, and also the functioning of botted accounts. Continue reading “Insta Bots and the black market of social media engagement”
I was really glad to attend to ECREA Digital Culture and Communication Section Conference, under the theme: Digital Culture Meets Data: Critical Approaches. The conference was held by the University of Brighton, Mithras House on 6 – 7 November 2017. Here is a summary of my talk and the slide presentation. Continue reading “Why look at social media APIs?”
I have attended the 10th edition of the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) Summer School at the University of Amsterdam, under the theme “Get the picture – Digital Methods for Visual Research”. In this two-week intensive course, I had the opportunity to work with incredible and Continue reading “DMI Summer School 2017”
This is the result of a short experiment with R. The presentation was produced by myself, Camila Wohlmuth, Carla Nave and Gonçalo Barbosa. We attended the course Introduction to Digital Humanities (with Daniel Carter as the instructor) at Digital Media Summer Institute, in Porto, Portugal. Continue reading “First steps with R & Visual Social Media Analysis”
This piece of work was developed in the first year of my PhD as an effort to reflect on how platforms moderate content and whether they take context into account. I look at the content moderation policy of Instagram, drawing particular attention to the case of #belarecatadaedolar. Continue reading “Does context matter?”
This is an experiment: the ideia is to visualise the most popular posts using Continue reading “#BrasilEmGreve: Most popular vs. Latest posts on Instagram”
A wide variety of approaches or ways of seeing social media data have been undertaken, the question is whether they are technically adequate or a simple depiction of what you get. Continue reading “Instagram Data Analysis: the pros and cons of co-tag network and key actors.”
Janna Joceli Omena 