The Methodological Unit of HSSH organizes a weekly Brown Bag Seminar to highlight novel methodological approaches in humanities and social sciences. Bring your own lunch, we bring fresh methodological topics!
Post-API: How to Collect Social Media Data without API Access – The Case of Finnish Presidential Election 2024
Accessing social media data has turned increasingly difficult during the past years as many platforms have limited researchers’ access to data through APIs. This project maps out the state of the art methods for collecting social media data using presidential elections as a case on which data was collected. The platforms covered by the project are: Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, Tiktok, Youtube and online news comments. In addition, the project creates a benchmark for storing social media data for wider academic audiences and later uses.
Essi Pöyry works as a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Consumer Society Research in University of Helsinki. She holds the Title of Docent in marketing. Her research concerns the role of social media and new technologies in the consumer society, and has studied, among other things, influencer marketing and political marketing.
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen (D.Soc.Sc., Docent) is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Consumer Society Research, University of Helsinki. Her research areas are technology, organizations, and new media. She is also an expert in digital/computational research methods and research ethics of digital data.
??There will be a 20-minute introduction to the methodological theme, followed by an open discussion of 40 minutes. The seminars are open to everybody. We expect a multidisciplinary and methodologically curious audience from different faculties and units of the central campus. The most important prerequisite for participation is not methodological expertise, but an open mind towards new methodological innovations and discussion across methodological and disciplinary boundaries.
Please join us on 2.4. at 12.15 to listen and discuss!
You are welcome to join us at our seminar room (access via Vuorikatu 3 courtyard, take the elevator or stairs from Café Portaali to floor 5B, room 524 is on the right after a glass door) or online via zoom.<$DetailsLisatietojaLinkki$>
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