Sunday, October 22, 2023

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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Breakfast will be available starting at 8:30 am

Session 1: Roadblocks and Hurdles

9:05 - 10:30 am

Monitoring Russian propaganda across social media
Joseph Bodnar
Large-scale scraping of multi-modal social media posts
Adnan Hoq
Wrestling with the changing API of social media platforms: The case of Botometer
Kaicheng Yang
Scraping, Storing, and Sharing: Coordinating Best Practices to Save Researchers' Time
Jason Greenfield
When Tweet IDs Became a Dead End: How Can We Responsibly Share Social Media Data in a Post-API World?
Melanie Walsh
The TikTok API & the Mobile-Desktop Data Divide
Parker Bach

Break (15 Minutes)

Session 2: Tools and Projects

10:45 am - 12:15 pm

The National Internet Observatory: Online Trace Data for Scientists
Christo Wilson
From Acquisition to Analysis to Publication: Social Media Archive's Efforts in Data Storage and Access
Alison Sweet
Reconstructing Public Activity on Digital Platforms
Stefan McCabe
Theseus' Instagram data gatherer: lessons in maintaining brittle research methods
Xue Ying Tan
POTATO (the Panel-based Open Term-level Aggregate Twitter Observatory)
Aswath Senthil Kumar
A Modular Software Toolkit to Collect Weibo Data
Dan Dai

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

1:15 to 2:45

When is Scraping Legitimate? Ethical, Legal, Administrative, and Technical considerations
Megan Brown
Developing Capacity for Post-API Research: New Frameworks for Social Media Data Acquisition
Jessica Witte
Risks and Protections for Independent Research by Journalists, Civil Society, and Community Science
Sarah Gilbert
Seeing the impossible: Why we need to dream big and ask students to dream bigger
Kenny Joseph
Academics of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our grant application
s. Rutherford mcewan

Break (15 Minutes)

Session 4: Strategies for Moving Forward

3:00 - 3:45 pm

Towards best practices of data donation: How different study settings impact the collection of digital traces
Felicia Loecherbach
Data Donation on WhatsApp
Kiran Garimella
The Australian Social Data Observatory
Daniel Angus
The Effects of Sustained Exposure to Fact-Checking: An Attempt to Run a Field Experiment on Twitter
Tiago Ventura

Session 5: Policies and Platform Governance

3:45 - 4:30 pm

Platform Data Access under the Digital Services Act: Promises and Limitations
Rebekah Tromble
The Return of the API? The EU’s Digital Services Act as Research Game-Changer for Platform Data Access
Naoise McNally
CrowdTangle is dead, long live to CrowdTangle!
Fabio Giglietto
Advocating for Continued Access to Social Media Data through a Public Health Lens
Keenan Chen