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Reading Digital Networks: Climate Emergency, Bolsonaro & Bot Image Circulation by Vision API.
Let´s talk digital networks! But not exactly information or neural networks, neither the networks build from marketing places for work, such as Amazon´s Mechanical Turk, Lucid, YouGov, CrowdFlower or Prolific. I want to talk digital networks both “as captured by digital data”
Continue reading “Reading Digital Networks: Climate Emergency, Bolsonaro & Bot Image Circulation by Vision API.”Hashtags are not the whole message
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”
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”
Does context matter?
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?”
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.”
Potential scenarios for API research
The technological glue of the web (application programming interfaces) has not only Continue reading “Potential scenarios for API research”
Janna Joceli Omena 