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”Insta Bots and the black market of social media engagement
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”
As Universidades Portuguesas no Facebook
António Granado and I presented our ongoing work about digital methods for institutional communication and science communication at SciCom PT 2017 – Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra, Continue reading “As Universidades Portuguesas no Facebook”
Instagram Data Analysis: the pros and cons of co-tag network and key actors.
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.”