Digital Horizons, Virtual Selves - Thomas Poell

This presentation reflects on the analytical opportunities and problems presented by very large Facebook Pages. It builds on an interdisciplinary research project on the Kullena Khaled Said
Facebook Page, the most popular online platform during the Egyptian revolution of early 2011. For this project, 14,072 posts by page administrators, as well as 6,810,357 comments and 32,030,731
likes by 1,892,118 users have been extracted via a customized version of the social media research tool Netvizz. Addressing the central questions of the symposium, I will, first, consider the intricacies of collecting data through Facebook’s API (Application Programming Interface). Subsequently, the presentation turns to the different analytical strategies available to humanities and social science researchers working with big data. Reflecting on the articulation of citizenship and activist leadership through the page, it shows why it is important to study and collect social media data. Finally, I will discuss the security, privacy, and legal issues that accompany the curation of social media data by museums and academic institutions.

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