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The Post-API Conference:
Social media data acquisition after Twitter
Schedule
VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION: Please note that the Post-API Conference will not be recorded, livestreamed, or hybrid. However, we will compile a list of resources discussed at the conference in a wiki which we will post to this site in the coming weeks.
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Image credit: Midjourney prompt "Schedule social media"
Breakfast will be available starting at 8:30 am
Breakfast will be available starting at 8:30 am
Session 1: Roadblocks and Hurdles
Session 1: Roadblocks and Hurdles
9:05 - 10:30 am
9:05 - 10:30 am
Monitoring Russian propaganda across social media
Joseph BodnarLarge-scale scraping of multi-modal social media posts
Adnan HoqWrestling with the changing API of social media platforms: The case of Botometer
Kaicheng YangScraping, Storing, and Sharing: Coordinating Best Practices to Save Researchers' Time
Jason GreenfieldWhen Tweet IDs Became a Dead End: How Can We Responsibly Share Social Media Data in a Post-API World?
Melanie WalshThe TikTok API & the Mobile-Desktop Data Divide
Parker Bach
Break (15 Minutes)
Break (15 Minutes)
Session 2: Tools and Projects
Session 2: Tools and Projects
10:45 am - 12:15 pm
10:45 am - 12:15 pm
The National Internet Observatory: Online Trace Data for Scientists
Christo WilsonFrom Acquisition to Analysis to Publication: Social Media Archive's Efforts in Data Storage and Access
Alison SweetReconstructing Public Activity on Digital Platforms
Stefan McCabeTheseus' Instagram data gatherer: lessons in maintaining brittle research methods
Xue Ying TanPOTATO (the Panel-based Open Term-level Aggregate Twitter Observatory)
Aswath Senthil KumarA Modular Software Toolkit to Collect Weibo Data
Dan Dai
Lunch (1 hour)
Lunch (1 hour)
Optional lunch session: Meta Content Library API Demo and Q&A (12:45 - 1:10) More info on the Meta Content Library here
Session 3: Ethics, Risks and Equity
Session 3: Ethics, Risks and Equity
1:15 to 2:45
1:15 to 2:45
When is Scraping Legitimate? Ethical, Legal, Administrative, and Technical considerations
Megan BrownDeveloping Capacity for Post-API Research: New Frameworks for Social Media Data Acquisition
Jessica WitteRisks and Protections for Independent Research by Journalists, Civil Society, and Community Science
Sarah GilbertSeeing the impossible: Why we need to dream big and ask students to dream bigger
Kenny JosephAcademics of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our grant application
s. Rutherford mcewan
Break (15 Minutes)
Break (15 Minutes)
Session 4: Strategies for Moving Forward
Session 4: Strategies for Moving Forward
3:00 - 3:45 pm
3:00 - 3:45 pm
Towards best practices of data donation: How different study settings impact the collection of digital traces
Felicia LoecherbachData Donation on WhatsApp
Kiran GarimellaThe Australian Social Data Observatory
Daniel AngusThe Effects of Sustained Exposure to Fact-Checking: An Attempt to Run a Field Experiment on Twitter
Tiago Ventura
Session 5: Policies and Platform Governance
Session 5: Policies and Platform Governance
3:45 - 4:30 pm
3:45 - 4:30 pm
Platform Data Access under the Digital Services Act: Promises and Limitations
Rebekah TrombleThe Return of the API? The EU’s Digital Services Act as Research Game-Changer for Platform Data Access
Naoise McNallyCrowdTangle is dead, long live to CrowdTangle!
Fabio GigliettoAdvocating for Continued Access to Social Media Data through a Public Health Lens
Keenan Chen
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