Facebook’s Controversial Study: Some Thoughts and Teaching Opportunities

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. By now, you’ve probably heard about the controversy surrounding the massive study conducted by Facebook, titled “Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks” and published in the June Proceedings of the National Academic of Sciences.

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ICA Conference Panel: Social Media Data

I’m back from a great trip to ICA! The conference was filled with inspiring and informative panels. And it was great to see colleagues and friends! I want to take a quick minute to share a post summarizing a great panel I attended. Since Mary Joyce (@MetaActivism) summarizes the post here and the capabilities of the […]

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Back from Poland and off to ICA 2014 in Seattle!

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Hope everyone’s week is off to a great start! It is very busy here. Kelin and I just returned from a weeklong trip to Poland. We went to Krakow and Warsaw. I’m leaving early Thursday morning to head the International Communication Association conference in […]

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My 2014 Summer Plans: Social media planning for an international conference

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. It is hard to believe that the 2013-2014 academic year is over. Summer is upon us. It was a super busy year. I had so many ideas for things I wanted to blog about, and never got around to: Like my final project […]

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Sentiment Analysis using Content Analysis Software: Project Assignment

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. In the last two posts, I’ve been discussing the Yoshikoder sentiment analysis project in my Communication Research class here at Shepherd University. My first post looked at the project in general. And the second, most recent post, looked at how to teach computer-assisted […]

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