Facebook Receives Mixed Reactions to Emotions Study
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've heard about the "Facebook Experiment". Melissa Buenger pulls together Tweets that explain what the big deal is and what it means for social data research.
View ArticleHelping Build a Strong Foundation for Social Data Research
Health Media Collaboratory joins the Big Boulder Initiative to help advance the field of social data research.
View Article“I’m Not Seeing How You Can Regulate a Metal Tube with a Button…” reddit...
Anne Buffington takes to reddit to characterize response to the proposed FDA deeming rule for the regulation of electronic cigarettes.
View ArticleBeyond Your Wallet, Companies Use New Media to Win Your Heart
Steven Binns asks, with all of the data consumers are willing to give up online what are they really getting in return and what does this mean for public health?
View ArticleFrom Objective Observation to Mood Manipulation – Hashing out the Ethics of...
In the wake of the Facebook experiment uproar, our team discussed big data research ethics and what it means for our work. Lisa Vera takes us through what happened, what we think, and what we're doing...
View ArticleCollaboratory Journal Club: Action Tweets and Activity
The Health Media Collaboratory’s Journal Club takes a look at how communications research may clarify potential relationships between social media message diffusion and actual behavior change.
View ArticleJoin Us for a Live Conversation About Social Data and Research
Join us for CollabOnAir, a live conversation with academics and industry analysts about social data and how we can connect it to real world outcomes for our research.
View Article#CollabOnAir: A Live Conversation About Social Data
We hosted our first #CollabOnAir, a panel discussion about using social data for research. Here's our recap of the discussion from Twitter.
View ArticleUPDATED: #CollabOnAir: Video from our Live Conversation and Q&A Responses
Catch up on the #CollabOnAir with archived video and more.
View ArticleFacebook News Study Raises Questions about Algorithms, Transparency
How big a deal is the so-called "filter bubble" and does it mean that people use Facebook in an echo chamber where their own ideologies are reflected back at them via their News Feed?
View ArticleTobacco-related price promotions on Twitter: What are they like, and what...
Every Twitter user knows the platform often gets used to promote products. But when it comes to tobacco products, what do promotional tweets look like? Health Media Collaboratory member Catherine Jo...
View ArticleHow to Ethically and Reliably Determine Gender in Social Media Posts?
In recognition of International Women’s Day on March 8, the Health Media Collaboratory takes the chance to discuss gender identification in research, particularly research on social media data.
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