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”DMI Summer School 2017
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”
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?”
#BrasilEmGreve: Most popular vs. Latest posts on Instagram
This is an experiment: the ideia is to visualise the most popular posts using Continue reading “#BrasilEmGreve: Most popular vs. Latest posts on Instagram”
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.”